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I am Dani Smith, sometimes known around the web as Eglentyne. I am a writer in Texas. I like my beer and my chocolate bitter and my pens pointy.

This blog is one of my hobbies. I also knit, sew, run, parent, cook, eat, read, and procrastinate. I have too many hobbies and don’t sleep enough. Around here I talk about whatever is on my mind, mostly reading and writing, but if you hang out long enough, some knitting is bound to show up.

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    These are books I’ve finished reading in 2012. Titles are linked to any comments I’ve made about the books elsewhere on my pages.

    January

    The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

    One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

    Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich

    Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

    Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

    The Weekend Novelist Re-Writes the Novel by Robert J. Ray

    The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater

     

    February

    The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 

    It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing UP, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley

    The Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

     

    March

    Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer

    Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen (with a follow up here)

    On Writing by Stephen King

    How I Write by Janet Evanovich

     

    April

    The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Tate 

    A Spy’s Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque by E. B. Held

    Carry the One by Carol Anshaw

    The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

    The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

    Being Perfect by Anna Quindlen

    A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen

     

    May

    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

     

    When the Merry-Go-Round Went Off the Tracks

    How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic, Translator Anthea Bell

    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    Game of Thrones by George R. R. Marting

    Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

    Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

    Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

    The Walking Dead, Compendium 1

    The Gunslinger by Stephen King

    Eragon by Christopher Paolini

    The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce

    Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn

    The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie