Holiday Book Wish List

I never did a holiday book wish list before the holidays. :( I was thinking about it the other day. Well, I'm going to do one now! Hey, I could get a New Year's gift, couldn't I? *laughs* And...my birthday is coming up in March... *hint hint to anyone out there who wants to send me a gift* It's going to be a long list, so I hope you're prepared. I'll keep it to the books I KNOW I want (instead of the books I know I want and the books I sorta want and the books I want b/c I can't find them at the library). :)

Oooh, please?:

• Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller
• Babymouse: Beach Babe, Babymouse: Heartbreaker, & Babymouse: Rock Star by Jennifer Holm & Matt Holm
• Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer by JT Petty
• Cowboy and Octopus by Jon Scieszka
• Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories by Cheryl Katz & Jeffrey Katz
• New Moon & Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
• Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth & Gaia Girls: Way of Water by Lee Welles
• The Gift of Nothing & Hug Time by Patrick McDonnell
• The Lady of Ten Thousand Names by Burleigh Muten
• Owly #4 by Andy Runton
• Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? by Esther Pearl Watson
• Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World by Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Sexual Lives by Robert Heasley & Betsy Crane (my dear friends)
• The Psychology of Harry Potter
• Firefly: The Official Companion volume 2 by Joss Whedon
• To Hell and Back by Lilith Saintcrow

Not vital, but it'd make me happy:

• 200 Braids to Twist, Knot, Loop or Weave by Jacqui Carey
• Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter by Alison Hansel
• Chester by Melanie Watt
• Black Sun Silver Moon #1 by Tomo Maeda (to complete my collection)
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
• Y: The Last Man volumes 2-9 by Brian K Vaughan et al
• How Loathesome by Ted Naifeh & Tristan Crane
• All the Postsecret books by Frank Warren
• Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Volume 1 & Volume 2 by Robert Asprin (duh)
• Very Easy Circular Knits by Betty Barnden
• Kids Crochet by Kelli Ronci & Lena Corwin
• Sidescrollers by Matthew Loux
• The Psychology of Joss Whedon
• Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan

Not out yet, but they can be preordered!:

• Tramps Like Us #14 by Yayoi Ogawa
• White Night by Jim Butcher (in paperback!)
• Steady Beat #3 by Rivkah
• Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach by Melanie Watt
• Re:Play #2 by Christy Lijewski
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus volume 3
• Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong
• The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison
• Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
• City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
• Kizuna #9 by Kazuma Kodaka
• Off*beat #3 by Jen Lee Quick (I don't know when this is coming out)

Hard to find, but I'd love them if I had them!:

• Angel Diary #6 & Angel Diary #7 & Angel Diary #8 by Yun Hee Lee & Kara
• Crying Men by Sam Taylor-Wood
• The Great Pet Sale by Mick Inkpen
• Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone by J.K. Rowling in French
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince & Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling British editions

And I just ordered these with my $50 B&N gift card!

• Scaredy Squirrel & Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Melanie Watt
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Serenity Found by Jane Spensen

And I always want the next volumes in the manga series I read regularly:

• Fruits Basket
• Hana-Kimi
• After School Nightmare
• Her Majesty's Dog
• Vampire Knight
• Ouran High School Host Club
• Never Give Up
• Black Sun Silver Moon
• Millennium Snow

Phew! And that's probably not all. :) I'm a greedy little bitch, aren't I? Oh well...

Yay, Vault!

My visit to Vault today produced:

• Hana-Kimi #21 by Hisaya Nakajo

YAY!

• Angel: After the Fall #2

The new Angel "season" like the Buffy Season 8. I really need to read my comics. Especially BUFFY! :) Another challenge...and no time. Blah.

Love from the library

Free from the Northfield Township Library:

• The Power of a Woman: Timeless Thoughts on a Woman's Inner Strengths edited by Janet Mills

And from the Friends of AADL (but I forgot I already had it):

• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

My parents got me a $50 B&N gift certificate. WOO HOO! I just don't know what to get. :) Probably the Scaredy Squirrel books b/c they totally rock and I adore them. But I don't know what else... Hmmmm... How exciting. :)

More new additions

From half.com:

• The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit by Patricia Monaghan

And do you know what's mentioned in the March 11th (my birthday) meditation? GOATS! I love goats...I do. Almost as much as books.

• The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor by Gail McMeekin

A plethora of new things

From Vault the other day (Monday, maybe?):

• Dirty Found #3
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #9

And from half.com:

• Offering to Isis by M. Isidora Forrest
• The Goddess Path by Patricia Monaghan

Why I love Paperbackswap

B/c I get new books like:

• Babymouse: Puppy Love by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm

Yay, I love Babymouse!

Maybe when the holidays are over...

...I will stop buying so many books! *snorts* Yeah, right...

Well, while I was buying my brother in law his holiday gift, I got these for myself:

• Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Tactics #3 by Sakura Kinoshita & Kazuko Higashiyama

Speaking of holidays... I get a bit of break next week. I'm hoping to get lots of reading done and lots of knitting done. :) I volunteered to work at the library on Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Eve, and New Year's. So, besides working 3 hours on those days, I don't have anything to do, which I think is pretty sweet. I do have a couple family visits to fit in between this Saturday and January 1st, but other than that... It's going to be sweet! Maybe I can use that time to catch up on my manga. That will be my personal challenge: the My Manga Holiday Catch Up Challenge. *laughs* That's a name, isn't it?

New books, new books!

From Borders, while I was buying my sister a holiday gift (the coupons TOTALLY rock during the holiday season)...

• Black Sun Silver Moon #3 by Tomo Maeda

And I found:

• Holidays Are Hell by Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Marjorie M. Liu, & Vicki Pettersson

SWEET!!! Now, (again) if I could only stop borrowing library books and start reading my own... It may be time for another my manga challenge. I'm starting to build up my collection again without reading them!

Oh, new books, how I love thee...

Bookmooched:

• 10 Things I Hate About You by David Levithan

Okay, I love the movie and it was written by David Levithan, whom I adore. How could I not want it???

From Borders b/c I was so excited to see it came out that I couldn't wait:

• Dramacon #3 by Svetlana Chmakova

This deserves a squee. *squees* Hee hee.

Sweet quotes!

These were in Zen Cat but are from various sources.

Even a cat is a lion in her own lair.
--Proverb

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
--Rabindranath Tagore

Don't listen to what they say. Go see.
--Chinese Proverb

Wisdom is sometimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
--William Wordsworth

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?
--Buddha

Time is the longest distance between two places.
--Tennessee Williams

New books!

From half.com:

• Serenity: The Official Visual Companion by Joss Whedon

Mwa ha ha! My Firefly/Serenity library is nearly complete!

From Borders, b/c of those damn good coupons:

• The Devil's Right Hand by Lilith Saintcrow
• Living Out Loud by Keri Smith

I really need to stop getting library books and just read the books I have. I have so many good ones that I desperately WANT to read!!! :(

No power :(

My power went off sometime around 3 am. I had hoped that it would've come back on by the time I woke up to go to work, but sadly, it hadn't. Having learned my lesson the last time (around the time HP #7 came out), I called all the necessary people--the electric company, my apartment complex's emergency maintenance. It was supposed to come on around noon.

Let me tell you, no power for more than an hour or so in the winter sucks ass. It was so freaking cold in here. I was freaking out, particularly about my cats. I called in to work. I think the supervisor on duty thought I was crazy (she did say that cats love fuzzy warm blankets and that she thought they'd be okay), but I wasn't about to leave my poor cats alone, especially since the power was off for days last time. I had a contingency plan for what I'd do if the power didn't come back on and the temp in my apartment dropped below 60 degrees (I think it got to about 62).

Needless to say, I got to read a lot today! A lot of it was by candlelight...which was good and bad. It's cool, but my eyes get tired out. The power came back right around 4 pm. Yay! That's why I can post this now.

I'm content with the amount of reading I did today. Yay, me! And the fact that I had a whole blissful (if freezing) day without working.

Also, I gave up on Feminism by June Hannam. It was boring.

Books I've Read November 2007

11/2/07

• New X-Men: Academy X: X-Posed by Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir (GN)
• Goat and Donkey in the Great Outdoors by Simon Puttock & Russell Julian (PB)
• Catwings by Ursula K. LeGuin (Y)
• Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night edited by Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly (GN)
• Smitten: A Kitten's Guide to Happiness by Rachael Hale (A-NF)
• The Wallflower #8 by Tomoko Hayakawa (M)
• Tokyo Boys & Girls #5 by Miki Aihara (M)

11/3/07

• Ultra Maniac #3 by Wataru Yoshizumi (M)
• Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts! #2 by Haruka Fukushima (M)
• The Barefoot Book of Trickster Tales by Richard Walker & Claudio Munoz (Y)
• Every Person on the Planet by Bruce Eric Kaplan (GN)
• Re-Gifters by Mike Carey, Sonny Liew, & Marc Hempel (GN)
• The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice by Wendy Pfeffer & Jesse Reisch (Y-NF)
• The Story of Divaali by Jatinder Verma & Nilesh Mistry (Y)
• Kipper's Birthday by Mick Inkpen (PB)
• Kipper's Monster by Mick Inkpen (PB)
• Clatter Bash!: A Day of the Dead Celebration by Richard Keep (PB)
• Miki Falls #3: Autumn by Mark Crilley (M)

11/4/07

• Robot #1 edited by Range Murata (GN)
• Earthian #4 by Yun Kouga (M)

11/6/07

• Girlosophy: The Oracle by Anthea Paul (A-NF)

11/8/07

• Sam Taylor-Wood: Crying Men (A-NF)
• The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri (PB)
• Who's Hiding? by Satoru Onishi (PB)
• The Great Pet Sale by Mick Inkpen (PB)
• How to Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You Enjoy) by Julia Cameron (GN)
• Princess Resurrection #2 by Yasunori Misunaga (M)
• La Vie En Rose by Sakurako Yamada (M)

11/9/07

• Gallop! A Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Seder (PB)
• The Great Doughnut Parade by Rebecca Bond (PB)
• Yes We Can! by Sam McBratney & Charles Fuge (PB)
• A Box Full of Kittens by Sonia Manzano & Matt Phelan (PB)
• Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah E. Richards & R. Gregory Christie (PB)
• Cowboy & Octopus by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith (PB)
• Alice 19th #3: Chained by Yu Watase (M)
• Ultra Maniac #4 by Wataru Yoshizumi (M)
• Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Peterson (GN)
• Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings by Ursula K. LeGuin (Y)

11/10/07

• Bye-Bye, Big Bad Bullybug! by Ed Emberley (PB)
• Knitting Nell by Julie Jersild Roth (PB)
• The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers (PB)
• Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding by Lenore Look & Yumi Heo (PB)
• Hindu Festivals Through the Year by Anita Ganeri (Y-NF)

11/14/07

• Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute by Charles S. Anderson Design Co. & Michael J. Nelson (A)
• The Quotable Slayer compiled by Micol Ostow & Steven Brezenoff (A-NF)

11/15/07

• On the Prowl by Patricia Briggs, Eileen Wilks, Karen Chance, & Sunny (A)

11/18/07

• X-Treme X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont, Igor Kordey, & Scott Hanna (GN)

11/20/07

• Dating 4 Demons by Serena Robar (YA)
• SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (A-NF)

11/21/07

• The Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change--Or Live Through It by David de Rothschild (A-NF)

11/22/07

• Orisha: The Gods of Yorubaland by Judith Gleason (A-NF)
• Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light by MaryJanice Davidson & Anthony Alongi (YA)
• Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins (YA)

11/24/07

• America 24/7 edited by Rick Smolan & David Elliot Cohen (A-NF)
• Just Like Heaven by Patrick McDonnell (PB)
• I Miss You Every Day by Simms Taback (PB)
• I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry (PB)
• Love Sick: A Smoldering Look at Love, Lust, and Marriage by the Charles S. Anderson Design Co. & Michael J. Nelson (A)
• Beach Stones by Josie Iselin & Margaret W. Carruthers (A-NF)
• The Wallflower #9 by Tomoko Hayakawa (M)
• Alice 19th #4: Unrequited Love by Yuu Watase (M)
• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (YA)

11/25/07

• Wool Gathering: A Sheep Family Reunion by Lisa Wheeler & Frank Ansley (PB)
• Love Letters by Arnold Adoff & Lisa Desimini (PB)
• The Ancestors Are Singing by Tony Johnston & Karen Barbour (PB)
• The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell (PB)
• Mammalabilia by Douglas Florian (PB)
• Wake the Dead by Monica A. Harris & Susan Estelle Kwas (PB)
• Ultra Maniac #5 by Wataru Yoshizumi (M)

11/26/07

• Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)

11/27/07

• Wagamama Kitchen by Kaori Monchi (M)
• The Moon and the Sandals #2 by Fumi Yoshinaga (M)

11/28/07

• Goth-Icky: A Macabre Menagerie of Morbid Monstrosities by Charles S. Anderson Design Co. & Michael J. Nelson (A)
• LaPorte, Indiana by Jason Bitner (A-NF)
• Elephant Prince: The Story of Ganesh by Amy Novesky & Belgin K. Wedman (PB)

11/29/07

• The Artist Within: Portraits of Cartoonists, Comic Book Artists, Animators, and Others by Greg Preson (A-NF)

11/30/07

• I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap: The Ages of Dog by Valerie Shaff & Roy Blount Jr. (A-NF)
• If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs by Valerie Shaff & Roy Blount Jr. (A-NF)

11/07 total: 78

8 Graphic Novels; 27 Picture Books; 4 Youth; 13 Adult NF; 15 Manga; 2 Youth NF; 4 Adult; 5 Young Adult