The tomes are ranked by my preference and alphabetized by creator. Don’t bother reading anything at 2.5 or below, though I admire the author’s ambition to be published. If you’d like to review the novel’s extended comments, though brief and to the point, please search back for earlier entries of Volume III. Feel free to peruse the preceding Volumes I & II, too. Watch for a summer reading list. I’m already working on Volume IV entries.
BOOKWORM RATINGS:
FIVE WORMS = Perfection
FOUR AND A HALF WORMS = Excellent
Sadly, no books meet this criterion in Volume III. Authors and publishers are cordially invited to mail me books to review.
FOUR WORMS = Very Good
Bartender’s Tale by Ivan Doig
The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrain McKinty
Objects of My Affection by Jill Somolinski
THREE AND A HALF WORMS = Good
Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey
XO by Jeffery Deaver
The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde
Mercury Falls by Robert Krose
Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis
The Risk Agent by Ridley Pearson
The City of Devi by Manil Suri
Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
THREE WORMS = Fair, but readable
An Autumn War, and The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham (two separate books)
Chinese Whiskers by Pallavi Aiyar
Nine Lives by Dan Baum
Music of Ghosts by Sallie Bissell
As Sweet As Honey by Indira Ganesan
Cats Behaving Badly by Celia Haddon (non-fiction)
The Bones of the Old Ones by Howard Andrew Jones
Murder Most Austen by Tracy Kiely
The Death Relic by Chris Kuzneski
Beautiful Sacrifice by Elizabeth Lowell
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Margaret from Maine by Joseph Monninger
Twin Cities Haunted Handbook by Jeff Morris, Garett Merk, and Dain Charbonneau
Popular Music from Vittala by Mikel Niemi
The Shape of Desire by Sharon Shinn
Wisdom of the Shire by Noble Smith
Data, A Love Story by Amy Webb (non-fiction)
The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose by Susan Wittig Albert
Star Wars: Scoundrels by Timothy Zahn
TWO AND A HALF WORMS = So-So
The Turtle-Girl from East PukaPuka by Cole Alpaugh
The People of Tomorrow are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
The Legend of Broken by Caleb Carr
The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
The Wanting by Michael Lavigne
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Death on a Pale Horse by Donald Thomas
TWO WORMS = Oh-Oh
Enchanting Lily by Anjali Banerjee
The Bad Miss Bennet by Jean Burnett
The Lady of Secrets by Susan Carroll
My Last Empress by Da Chen
The Wurst is Yet to Come by Mary Daheim
The Wrong Man by David Ellis
Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
Twilight, and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (two separate books)
Nick & Jake by Jonathan and Tad Richards
ONE/ZERO WORM = No-No or Avoid
The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman
Lenin’s Kises by Yan Lianke
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Silent House by Orhan Pamluk
The Forgetting Tree by Tatjana Soli
Read Every Day!
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