Unless someone suggests a title, the novels were selected at random. I shy away from romance novels and violence. Both are stuff of nightmares. A few tomes have been adjusted from their original rating to be in better alignment. Don’t bother reading anything at 2.5 or below.
Read the entire eight-book Tales of the City series, very entertaining. Seem to have perused a lot about WWII with perspectives from Japanese civilians, Chinese civilians, American POWs, and survivors of European concentration camps. Odd coincidence. Rankings are alphabetized by author. Full reviews are in the Volume II series, just search for them on this blog (via Bookworm Review). I prefer to keep the evaluation brief without giving away too much of the plot.
IMA’S BOOKWORM RATINGS:
FIVE WORMS = Perfection
To Be Determined, got any suggestions?
FOUR AND A HALF WORMS = Excellent
Anshu by Juliet S. Kono
FOUR WORMS = Very Good
The Water Children by Anne Berry
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Moon Maze Game by David Niven and Steven Barnes
Driftless by David Rhodes
A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors by Peter Smith
Strindberg’s Star by Jan Walletin
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
THREE AND A HALF WORMS = Good
Kingdom of Strangers by Zoe Ferraris
Citadels of the Lost by Tracy Hickman
Think Like a Cat by Pam Johnson-Bennett
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin
Significant Others by Armistead Maupin
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonscewski
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
The Rules of the Tunnel by Ned Zeman
THREE WORMS = Fair, but readable
Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall
The Invitation by Anne Cherian
When the Saints by Dave Duncan
The Arrogant Years by Lucette Lagnado
Interpreter of the Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin
Sure of You by Armistead Maupin
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Red Earth, White Earth by Will Weaver
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Late Homecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
TWO AND A HALF WORMS = So-So
The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
The Measure of the Magic by Terry Brooks
Master and God by Lindsey Davis
The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind
Glass Asylum by JoAnn Bren Guernsey
Foundation by Mercedes Lackey
Babycakes by Armistead Maupin
The Healing by Jonathan Odell
Solaris Rising edited by Ian Whates
The Divining by Barbara Wood
Song of the Silk Road by Mingmai Yip
TWO WORMS = Oh-Oh
Journal of a UFO Investigator by David Halperin
Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin
Intrigues by Mercedes Lackey
Here Comes The Nice by Jeremy Reed
ONE WORM = No-No
None, because I just stopped reading the manuscript.
Seeking Five Worms!
© 2012 Ima B. Musing
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