Not bought, mooched...

Bookmooched:

• The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo

I may buy X-23: Target if I can find it... But it's not September yet...I'm safe. :)

And it's not that I haven't been reading...I just haven't been reading much. I've worked 10 hour days every day this week...I'm exhausted... It's Move In at the University. Busy, busy, busy!

China Shakes the World & James Kynge

I finished China Shakes the World this evening. It was not by choice that I read this book--it's not my type. The living-learning program I run is reading the book as part of the inagural summer reading program at U of M. All my students are reading it...

Well, I'm just not that interested in business and economics. I found the chapter on environmental concerns interesting. Overall, I found the book frightening. Especially the last chapter... China is growing and expanding, people are living better, there are greater opportunities, education is flourishing--all that is great. But the scary part is the limited resources that everyone in the world is competing for (and the implied lengths they will go to in order to protect their share or gain new resources), the lack of concern about the environment, the nuclear weapons... I don't know that I can pull my thoughts together better than that... Everyone who has read the book has said that Kynge presents a balanced view, but it didn't seem that way to me. I don't know. I'm not good at reviewing...

James Kynge is coming to campus on Sept 18th to give a talk based on his book. I'm very curious to see what he has to say. I hope it will be interesting.

I'm also curious about what my Chinese students will have to say about the book... I know many of my students have found it deadly boring. Well, this should be interesting...

Why couldn't we have stuck with a nice book like A Thousand Years of Good Prayers? That was a nice little book with many interesting different stories touching on the lives of different people and highlighting different cultural aspects of China. That would have been so much better, in my opinion... Oh well. *sighs*

...and again...

From half.com:

• The Names of Magic by Dylan Horrocks & Richard Case

I can't find this anywhere. So I thought I'd buy it. It was cheap. If it's not good, I can send it off to bookmooch or paperbackswap. *shrugs*

I promise to try not to buy any books in the next month, except those that I get through Vault (b/c they naturally come to me on "subscription"). I may have a couple still on the way from half.com...so those don't count! And I'm going to buy Sensual Phrase #3 so that I can read it and then read the library books that I have (b/c the library hasn't gotten #3 yet), but I plan on returning that when I'm done with it... So that doesn't even count!! I'm going to try my hardest...really. New personal challenge. Can I go a month without buying books?

Maybe I should start September 1st... September is a short month too...

...and again...

From half.com:

• Only the Ring Finger Knows #2: The Left Hand Dreams of Him by Satoru Kannagi & Hotaru Odagiri

Ditto

From half.com:

• La Esperanca #7 by Chigusa Kawai

The library doesn't have the last volume. What was I supposed to do? They're slow when it comes to these sorts of things...

• Only the Ring Finger Knows #3: The Ring Finger Falls Silent by Satoru Kannagi & Hotaru Odagiri

I thought this was manga, but it's a novel. :( I got #2 as well on its way, but... I only have the manga, not the first volume of the novels. I wonder if they're any good. Guess I'll find out!

I buy too many fucking books

This is why I have no money...

From half.com:

• Broken Angels #2 Setsuri Tsuzuki

And...

Paperbackswapped:

• The Book of Night With Moon by Diane Duane

Oooh...it's about kitties! :)

From half.com:

• Il Gatto Sul G #2 by Tooko Miyagi

More quotes

Like magnets, depressed people attact one another because moping alone is, well, pathetic. But throwing yourself a pity party? That's emo.

...but most male emo-ites have no idea what to do with a woman's genitalia, therefore making it impossible to sing about them.

--from Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture by Leslie Simon & Trevor Kelley

Hilarious book quotes!

Julie and I discovered another book by the McSweeney's people. We were just flipping through and we found these:

GOOD WESTERNS, NOT PORN

by Ross Barnes

Ace of the Saddle (1919)

Bad Man Bobbs (1915)

Between Men (1935)

Deadwood Dick (1940)

Garden of Eatin' (1943)

Gay Amigo, The (1949)

Gay Buckaroo, The (1932)

Hot Lead (1951)

Inside Straight (1951)

Man Rustlin' (1926)

Man to Man (1922)

Men in the Raw (1923)

One Shot Ross (1917)

Quigley Down Under (1990)

Ramrod (1947)

Rawhide Romance (1941)

Revenge of the Virgins (1966)

Rhythm of the Saddle (1938)

Ride a Wild Stud (1969)

Rimfire (1949)

There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)

Valdez Is Coming (1971)

Wild West Whoopee (1931)

and...

ELEVEN LUNCH MEATS I HAVE INVENTED

by Steven Tomsik

Brumschlagen

Cran-pepper Hen Loaf

Spiced Saucetail

Nippleroni

Fleen

Taste It

Hammed Beef

Meatwurst

Head Tongue

Buffalami

There Are Five

Both from Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans edited by Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner, & Suzanne Kleid

*giggles* And I haven't even read it yet!

...and even MORE new books...

From half.com:

• Mr. Pusskins: A Love Story by Sam Lloyd

B/c this book rocks and I can't thank Julie enough for discovering it!

• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Found on the Friends of AADL sale bookshelf at the library. How cool is that??

and MORE new books...

• Legends of Light: A Michigan Lighthouse Portfolio by Ed Wargin

My student Jenna bought this book of Michigan lighthouses to use as door decorations (she's our RA) and it was beautiful. I went back and bought myself a copy b/c it was only $4.99. There are a bunch of pictures of the Grand Haven lighthouse and pier! SWEET!

I also bought this b/c I am weak and cannot resist buying books:

• Little Butterfly #3 by Hinako Takanaga

*sighs*

*kisses to Paperbackswap*

Paperbackswap has been better to me lately than Bookmooch. In some ways, I like it better--you wait in line for books and you're the only one who has the option to request the book when it's your turn in line. But with Bookmooch, everyone gets an email when the book is posted and whoever gets there first gets the book. That sucks b/c I'm NEVER the first to get it. But I'm the only one wanting a book in Bookmooch where I'm not on Paperbackswap for some books. So...I guess it evens out.

Anyway!

Paperbackswapped:

• The Drag King Book Del Lagrace Volcano & Judith "Jack" Halberstam

SWEET!!

And b/c it was $0.75 on half.com:

• Pagan Polyamory: Becoming a Tribe of Hearts Raven Kaldera

*kisses to Bookmooch*

Oh how I love thee...let me count the ways... Or I'll just list the book I've recently mooched:

• Re:Play #1 Christy Lijewski

The good that comes of randomly perusing the graphic novel collections at the Downtown branch...which are so good that I then must own them.

Read MY Manga Challenge--DONE!!

Ha! I did it! I finally caught up. And only one day after my goal date of 8/11 (I finished yesterday, but forgot to post). So, here's the last of the list:

• X/1999: Overture
• Wolf's Rain #1
• Kizuna #5, #6, #7, #8
• Beyond My Touch
• Rin! #1
• Antique Bakery #2
• La Esperanca #2
• Vampire Knight #2
• Crossroad #4, #5, #6, #7
• Ouran High School Host Club #9
• Absolute Boyfriend #4
• Let Dai #2, #3
• Never Give Up #2, #3, #4
• Moonlight Meow #1
• Millennium Snow #2
• Negima! #13, #14
• After School Nightmare #4
• Il Gatto Sul G #1
• Yellow #3, #4
• Little Butterfly #2

That's 30! And really, I only read 8/4 to 8/12. Pretty sweet, huh? Let's see, that's 76 total. My goodness, I own a lot of manga. :) But it's oh so good!!!

In case you're following along with your math, yes, that doesn't add up to what I originally said I started out with--b/c I can't stop buying books and I kept adding to the long list of manga I was supposed to be catching up on! But now I've caught and I have to STAY caught up. Right?

What should I challenge myself with next????

Good coupons!

It was another $5 Borders coupon and a 20% off coupon kind of day...

From Borders:

• Crossroad #7 Shioko Mizuki

It's the last in the series. :( I like this series, for some reason. It's kinda naughty...big surprise!

From half.com:

• "I'm Not Cute!" Jonathan Allen

I ordered some books for work and I found this too. I ADORE THIS BOOK!!! If you have not read it (and I bet you haven't!), you should. It rocks.

No willpower...

I was over near the Borders in Arborland and I couldn't remember if I stopped in there to see if they had Angel Diary #6. I can't seem to find it anywhere--in a store or through ordering. But I've been checking all the bookstores in the area just in case. And I got lured in by a bargain book sale... :( At least I only spent $7.36!

For $7.36:

• Adios to My Old Life Caridad Ferrer
• Lost Summer Alex McAuley
• Submission Marthe Blau

Aaaaah...

Paperbackswapped some more:

• Yellow #3 Makoto Tateno
• Yellow #4 Makoto Tateno

Pre-ordered from bn.com:

• Exit Strategy Kelly Armstrong

I thought this was another supernatural type book like her other series, but I'm not so sure it is. I hope I like it. I enjoy her writing a lot and her strong female main characters.

Ooooh....

Paperbackswapped:

• Babymouse: Queen of the World! by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm

Bookmooched:

• Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by Pat Califia

Ooooh, how I love Paperbackswap & Bookmooch!!!

Books I've Read July 2007

7/1/07

• Gravitation #10 Maki Murakami (M)
• Alabaster Caitlin R. Kiernan (A)

7/2/07

• G Is for Gzonk!: An Alpha-number-bet Book Tiny DiTerlooney aka Tony DiTerlizzi (PB)
• New X-Men: Riot at Xavier's Morrison, Quitely, Grant, Townsend, Rapmund (GN)
• Little Fur: A Fox Called Sorrow Isobelle Carmody (Y)
• Gravitation #11 Maki Murakami (M)
• Gravitation #12 Maki Murakami (M)
• A Cool Moonlight Angela Johnson (Y)

7/3/07

• Click #1 Youngran Lee (M)
• Tramps Like Us #12 Yayoi Ogawa (M)
• After School Nightmare #3 Setona Mizushiro (M)
• Warriors #1: The Lost Warrior Hunter, Jolley, Barry (M)
• Crossroad #2 Shioko Mizuki (M)
• Crossroad #3 Shioko Mizuki (M)
• Millennium Snow #1 Bisco Hatori (M)
• Steady Beat #2 Rivkah (M)

7/4/07

• Negima! #9 Ken Akamatsu (M)
• Negima! #10 Ken Akamatsu (M)
• Negima! #11 Ken Akamatsu (M)
• Negima! #12 Ken Akamatsu (M)
• The Turbulent 60s: 1960 Loreta M. Medina (ed.) (YA-NF)

7/5/07

• Lean Mean Thirteen Janet Evanovich (A)
• The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac Dawn Casey & Anne Wilson (PB)
• Keturah and Lord Death Martine Leavitt (YA)
• Hana-Kimi #17 Hisaya Nakajo (M)
• Hana-Kimi #18 Hisaya Nakajo (M)

7/6/07

• Fruits Basket #14 Natsuki Takaya (M)
• Fruits Basket #15 Natsuki Takaya (M)
• Fruits Basket #16 Natsuki Takaya (M)

7/7/07

• Crow Boria Sax (A-NF)
• Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play #16: Assassin Yuu Watase (M)
• Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play #17: Demon Yuu Watase (M)

7/8/07

• Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book #4 Terry Moore (GN)

7/9/07

• What Would Dewey Do?: An Unshelved Collection Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum (GN)
• Ceres: Celestial Legend #9: Progenitor Yuu Watase (M)
• Ceres: Celestial Legend #10: Monster Yuu Watase (M)
• Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play #18: Bride Yuu Watase (M)
• Spellbinders: Signs & Wonders Mike Carey & Mike Perkins (GN)

7/10/07

• Tenshi Ja Nai!! I'm No Angel! #7 Takako Shigematsu (M)

7/12/07

• Ceres: Celestial Legend #11: Maiden Yuu Watase (M)
• Ceres: Celestial Legend #12: Toya Yuu Watase (M)
• Ceres: Celestial Legend #13: Ten'nyo Yuu Watase (M)
• Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City Kirsten Miller (YA)
• Witchling Yasmine Galenorn (A)

7/13/07

• Princess Princess #1 Mikiyo Tsuda (M)
• Princess Princess #2 Mikiyo Tsuda (M)

7/14/07

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah (A-NF)
• The Sandman: Endless Nights Neil Gaiman (GN)
• Genocide (Groundwork Guide) Jane Springer (YA-NF)

7/15/07

• The Library Sarah Stewart & David Small (PB)
• Sleeping Bobby Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne, & Giselle Potter (PB)
• Brave Charlotte Anu Stohner & Henrike Wilson (PB)
• Flower of Life #1 Fumi Yoshinaga (M)
• Gravitation Ex #1 Maki Murakami (M)
• Loveless #5 Yun Kouga (M)

7/16/07

• Bee Frog Martin Waddell & Barbara Firth (PB)
• Midsummer Knight Gregory Rogers (PB)
• Bad Cat Tracy-Lee McGuinness-Kelly (PB)
• How a Book Is Made Aliki (Y-NF)
• Bats at the Beach Brian Lies (PB)
• Kimi Shiruya--Dost Thou Know? Satoru Ishihara (M)
• Babymouse: Queen of the World! Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm (Y)
• The Black Tattoo Sam Enthoven (YA)

7/17/07

• Angel Diary #3 Kara & Lee YunHee (M)
• Angel Diary #4 Kara & Lee YunHee (M)
• Angel Diary #5 Kara & Lee YunHee (M)

7/18/07

• The Unauthorized Harry Potter Adam-Troy Castro (A-NF)

7/19/07

• Babymouse: Our Hero Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm (Y)

7/22/07

• Carmine: A Little More Red Melissa Sweet (PB)
• Caramba Marie-Louise Gay (PB)
• Clarence the Copy Cat Patricia Lakin & John Manders (PB)
• Why I Will Never Ever Ever Ever Have Enough Time to Read This Book Remy Charlip & Jon J. Muth (PB)
• Book Club: An Unshelved Collection Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum (GN)

7/23/07

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling (YA)
• Prom Nights from Hell Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe, Stephenie Meyer, & Lauren Myracle (YA)

7/24/07

• New X-Men: Assault on Weapon Plus Morrison, Jimenez, & Bachalo (GN)
• Little Butterfly #1 Hinako Takanaga (M)
• Night of the Beasts #1 Chika Shiomi (M)
• The Wallflower #2 Tomoko Hayakawa (M)

7/25/07

• Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture (The Simpsons Library of Wisdom) (GN)
• The Ralph Wiggum Book (The Simpsons Library of Wisdom) (GN)
• Babymouse: Beach Babe Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm (Y)
• Babymouse: Heartbreaker Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm (Y)
• Babymouse: Rock Star Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm (Y)
• Camp Babymouse Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm (Y)
• Bats at the Beach Brian Lies (PB)

7/26/07

• The Authority: Relentless Ellis, Hitch, Neary, & Depuy (GN)
• Gorgeous Carat Galaxy You Higuri (M)
• LoveSick Jake Coburn (YA)

7/27/07

• Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion #3 Sakurako Gokurakuin (M)
• Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion #4 Sakurako Gokurakuin (M)
• Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion #5 Sakurako Gokurakuin (M)

7/28/07

• The Wallflower #3 Tomoko Hayakawa (M)
• Flower of Life #2 Fumi Yoshinaga (M)
• Ceres: Celestial Legend #14: Hagoromo Yuu Watase (M)
• Library Mascot Cage Match: An Unshelved Collection Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum (GN)

7/29/07

• Seven Touches of Music Zoran Zivkovic (A)
• American Virgin: Head Seagle, Cloonan, Rugg (GN)
• All I See Is Part of Me Chara M. Curtis & Cynthia Aldrich (PB)
• Y: The Last Man: Motherland Vaughan, Guerra, Sudzuka, & Marzan (GN)
• The Bart Book (The Simpsons Library of Wisdom) (GN)

7/30/07

• Fashion Kitty Versus the Fashion Queen Charise Mericle Harper (Y)
• Fashion Kitty Charise Mericle Harper (Y)
• Grampa and Julie: Shark Hunters Jef Czekaj (Y)

7/31/07

• Nana #6 Ai Yazawa (M)
• Sorcerers & Secretaries #1 Amy Kim Ganter (M)
• Re:Play #1 Christy Lijewski (M)
• Kissing Teiko Sasaki & Shoko Takaku (M)

07/07 Total: 108

Break it down: 52 Manga, 4 Adult, 15 Picture Books, 14 Graphic Novels, 11 Youth, 2 YA Non Fiction, 6 Young Adult, 3 Adult Non Fiction, 1 Youth Non Fiction