The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

What were your least favorite books of the Summer 2012 Challenge?

The Dancing Floor by Barbara Michaels
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Armistice by Nick Stafford
Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
The Witches of Eileanan by Kate Forsyth
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks

1-Star:
Bridget Jones's Diary

2-Star:
Catching Jordan
You Remind Me Of You: A Poetry Memoir
Men in the Off Hours
The Difference Between You and Me
The Call of the Wild
Emily of Deep Valley

Running With Scissors
Ten Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

Steppenwolf
The Time Machine
Under Milk Wood
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Kusamakura

2 stars:
No Country for Old Men
The Griff: A Graphic Novel

1 star
The Sea
2 stars
Atonement
Thank You, Jeeves
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Humbling

Matched

1 star
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

1 and 2 star books
The Dry Grass of August
Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice
The Book of Madness and Cures

No 1 star books this season for me.

The only 2 star book was I and Thou, mostly because it was so hard to read. However, I think the concepts presented by Buber will stay with me for a long time.

My least favourite book was the one I read for my own task!

Rain

I gave it 2 stars

For the most part, I read really good books this challenge (which is like a real turn of events from what normally happens). The two I could not stand were Fallen and Two-Way Street. In both cases, I found pretty much nothing redeemable abut the leading lady and I couldn't understand why the men were chasing them so badly. I also found them boring. Both had the potential to be great, but fell really short.

No 1 Star books this time, but I had two 2 Stars:

You didn't like Moon Called? I read it and loved it. Why didn't you like it?

I felt like there too many "info dumps" which distracted me from the plot, but at the same time I felt like I didn't learn anything about Mercy herself. I still plan to give at least the next book a chance though.

1 *
Every Day Is Mother's Day
Hilary Mantel's first novel. I liked her later stuff. I think this one was supposed to be funny, but I didn't find it so.

2*
The House I Loved
I didn't like the heroine and at the end I wound up thinking (mild spoiler) (view spoiler)[she got what she deserved (hide spoiler)].

Summer Reading is one of the worst books I've ever read. Ever. And as I kept reading it just kept getting worse and worse.

My least favorite book of the challenge was definitely The Yard.

I was also somewhat disappointed in two eagerly awaited sequels:
Insurgent
Shadow of Night

They weren't horrible. I'll definitely read the next ones. But they just weren't as good as I hoped they'd be.

1 Star:

I agree. Gone Girl was awful.