It's my first Kindle purchase of 2010 and my first true crime read so it's particularly unfair that Deadly Dose by Amanda Lamb sucks so very much. A more perfect combination of all the things I hate would be hard to find. It tells the story from the point of view of the police, includes plenty of details about the fashion choices of the police, and frequently has multiple cliches in a single sentence.
I really need to stop getting book recommendations off Snapped.
Resolutions
I did not read 75 books last year. I wanted to, I even joined a group on LibraryThing to do so. But I didn't. I read a not insubstantial 63 books last year. Well, some of the books were very insubstantial but the amount was not. It's just less than 75. So, reading resolution #1: read 75 books in 2010.
#2: read more of the books I already own before buying more
#3: except Kindle, which is always exempt from any reading rule I make for myself
#4: request fewer ARCs; nothing is worse than having to write a review for a book that wasn't even bad enough to enjoy hating
#5: read more fiction; between True Crime and History I can go for weeks without reading fiction and even then it's usual a mystery that I read rather than "straight" fiction.
I should also pick the Daunting Classic to Tackle for 2010. Trollope, perhaps?
#2: read more of the books I already own before buying more
#3: except Kindle, which is always exempt from any reading rule I make for myself
#4: request fewer ARCs; nothing is worse than having to write a review for a book that wasn't even bad enough to enjoy hating
#5: read more fiction; between True Crime and History I can go for weeks without reading fiction and even then it's usual a mystery that I read rather than "straight" fiction.
I should also pick the Daunting Classic to Tackle for 2010. Trollope, perhaps?
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