I purchased Half a King right around when it was released and receiving mostly glowing reviews. This would be and was my first foray into a Joe Abercrombie novel after hearing about how great of a fantasy author he is. I have to say that Half a King draws you in right away. Yarvi, the novels main character is not your typical fantasy character. He's born with only one full working arm/hand. This disability absolutely defines Yarvi as a prince, a son, and a person. 

It's not very often that I finish a book and realize that I'm not exactly sure what I read. Don't get me wrong. It's not that I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I first picked up a David Sedaris book. But after finish Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls I feel as though I got just a small glimpse into his rambling mind. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls is a novel that has nothing to do with anything. It's a random assortment with almost no cohesion of essays that David Sedaris has written over the years.

It's been over two years since I read Robert Galbraith (better known as J.K. Rowling) first foray into a mystery with The Cuckoo's Calling. It was a good solid mystery that had some interesting characters but nothing that was so memorable that I was dying to get back in. I did purchase the second installment (The Silkworm) when it came out but haven't gotten around to reading it until now. My feelings on the book are extremely similar to what they were for The Cuckoo's Calling. 

The whole young adult genre is a wasteland that I don't usually dip my toe into. But when a book like Eleanor & Park comes along that I've heard nothing but adoration and praise I had to jump in. I'm a big sucker for a good "coming of age" story which is what I thought I was getting myself into. Eleanor & Park is that but its actually a lot deeper then I would have expected.

It's been a long time since I've read a good meaty fantasy epic. The last one I read ended up being one of my favorite books of all time, The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Since then I've had major trepidations about jumping into another one in the fear that it wouldn't live up to the big shoes of both Rothfuss and the George R.R. Martin fantasy epics A Song of Ice and Fire. And yet I purchased a book a couple years back called The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Its easily one of the best rated books on my Goodreads "to-read" list and I finally took the plunge.

I've made it. After thinking it might be a good idea to start deciding ahead of time which books to read I'm now on my last "Reading Challenge" post for 2015. I've done four of these already (Books 1-5, 6-10, 11-15,16-20) and this will be final one plotting out books 21-27 to hopefully make my goal of reading 27 books in 2015. So without further ado here are the remaining books in my pile to read for the rest of the year.