Welcome, new books!

Bookmooched & paperbackswapped:

• Zen Cat by Judith Adler & Paul Coughlin
• Challengers #1 by Hinako Takanaga
• Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
• Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth by Lee Welles (autographed!)

From Vault!:

• Hana-Kimi #23 by Hisaya Nakajo
• After School Nightmare #7 by Setona Mizushiro
• Serenity: Better Days #2

From Borders:

• Vampire Knight #3 by Matsuri Hino

Early reviewer book from Librarything:

• After Shock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies by Pattrice Jones

Sweet. Mmmm...new books! And a comic!

the return of storytime!

It was SO SLOW at the library today. I was so bored--and I was only there for three hours! We had done just about everything that we could do...so I found picture books to read to Julie. Kerstin hung around for one, Adam hung around for another couple. It was cool. :) So, I read...

• Three Little Ghosties by Goodhart & Cantone (clearly, our favorite)
• Stuck in the Mud by Clarke & Parsons
• Fred Stays With Me! by Coffelt & Tusa
• Louder, Lili by Choldenko & Schindler
• The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell (clearly, my favorite that I think everyone should read)

I brough Joel, our security guy, The Gift of Nothing. He liked it too!

Julie says I should do storytimes, but I don't think I'd like that. I don't like kids that much. I'd like to do storytimes for adults, though! That'd be fun!

Quotes from "Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac" by Gabrielle Zevin

I officially adore Gabrielle Zevin. She's written exactly two books and I love them both. :) Elsewhere was an amazing story about a young woman's afterlife. Not only was it cool to imagine an afterlife completely like any other I've heard of, it was a sweet love story. And Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is an awesome love story about two best friends. Cool.

But, the quotes!

It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.
--Gabrielle Zevin

"Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see," Fuse said. "They are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountaintop."
--Gabrielle Zevin

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who wants to know all your stories.
--Gabrielle Zevin

"Banana Fish"

Dear Randall,

You were right, I did really like Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida. Thank you. :)

Oh, and thank you for introducing me to manga in the first place. I don't know that I could ever thank you enough for that...

Always,
Dawn

Quotes from "Skinny" by Ibi Kaslik

This was a rough book. Deep, I suppose, with such lovely words. Towards the end, it was a little abstract and I found it hard to understand, but that was also what was kind of lovely about it...and it fit right in with the story. It was about anorexia, but it was also about a woman's relationship with her father and about the relationship between two sisters. Interesting read! :)

But quotes that struck me...

"Holly doesn't know what it's like to love someone who doesn't care whether you live or die. She doesn't yet realize that love unreturned eventually transforms into a fierce tangled mess, nerves and entrails exposed like split animal innards. She doesn't understand that sometimes the unrequited must demand reparations, that love can be a mean and spiteful process, that sometimes one loses patience with love."

"Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart.
You can't make anyone love you back."

"That's another terrible thing about love; once you've had it, you cannot go back to not having it."

It's kind of funny--I think you can read something about my mood by the quotes I pull out of books. :)

Surrounded by new books

It's been awhile...can you tell I'm super stressed and have no time? Well...here's the list.

Bookmooched/paperbackswapped:

• Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer by JT Petty
• A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
• The Lady of Ten Thousand Names: Goddess Stories from Many Cultures by Burleigh Muten & Helen Cann
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

From Borders, with really good coupons:

• Subversive Cross Stitch by Julie Jackson
• Vampire Knight #4 by Matsuri Hino

From Common Language, after seeing Julia do performance pieces:

• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

Through nefarious means:

• African American Quotations edited by Richard Newman

From my beloved Vault of Midnight:

• Hana-Kimi #22 by Hisaya Nakajo
• Fruits Basket #19 by Natsuki Takaya

& comics, from Vault, of course:

• Angel: After the Fall #5 & #6
• Serenity: Better Days #1
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #13
• Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures #10

Quotes from "Derby Girl"

Okay, first of all, how can you go wrong with a book about roller derby? Okay, yes, Derby Girl is a little cheesy, but it's funny as hell and lots of fun. And did I mention roller derby? I need to go...I think they have a league in Detroit...hmmm... :)

But...quotes!

"Just the thought of Oliver has my bra practically undoing itself."
[Ha! I've had thoughts like that...]

"In an effort to avoid any spontaneous slutting out, I give myself a stern look in the mirror. "You can make out with him, but that's it," I tell my boy-crazed reflection."
[And I've had conversations with myself like that!]

"Sometimes I feel like I'm just a supporting player in the movie starring Brooke. The script was written way before I showed up, and anything I do that deviates from the story just gets ignored."
[Brooke being Bliss's (Bliss the main character) mother--and I felt that way about my mom!]

"I am so fucked. I am fucked with whipped cream, sprinkles, and a cherry on top."
[Okay, that's just funny.]

All quotes from Derby Girl by Shauna Cross

Bookmooch, you are my hero

Woo hoo! Bookmooched:

• Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth by Lee Welles

Such an awesome book! I'm so excited to own my very own copy!

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale edited by James B. South

books i've read march 2008

3.1.08

• Project: Superior edited by Chris Pitzer (GN)
• Lookit! Comedy & Mayhem #2: Yarg! and Other Stories by Ray Friesen (GN)
• Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods by Suzanne Collins (Y)

3.2.08

• Skippyjon Jones: Shape Up by Judy Schachner (PB)
• Skippyjon Jones: 1-2-3 by Judy Schachner (PB)
• Skippyjon Jones: Up & Down by Judy Schachner (PB)
• Eat Mangoes Naked by Sark (A-NF)
• Dancing with Werewolves by Carole Nelson Douglas (A)
• Notorious by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)

3.3.08

• Crimson Hero #1 by Mitsuba Takanashi (M)
• Cryptozoo Crew #1 by Allan Gross & Jerry Carr (GN)
• Tiny Tyrant by Lewis Trondheim & Fabrice Parme (GN)

3.4.08

• The Tarot Cafe #1 by Sang-Sun Park (M)
• Crimson Hero #2 by Mitsuba Takanashi (M)

3.5.08

• Chewing Gum in Church by Steven Weissman (GN)
• Time Lag by Shinobu Gothoh & Hotaru Odagiri (M)
• Solfege by Fumi Yoshinaga (M)
• Sardine in Outer Space #1 by Emmanuel Guibert & Joann Sfar (GN)
• The Collected Works of Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey volumes 3 & 4 by Tony Millionaire (GN)

3.7.08

• Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis (PB)
• Hipira by Katsuhiro Otomo & Shinji Kimura (GN)
• Words of Devotion #1 by Keiko Konno (M)
• Hello, Please! Very Helpful Super Kawaii Characters from Japan by Matt Alt & Hiroko Yoda (A-NF)

3.8.08

• The Alphabetical Hookup List: K-Q by Phoebe McPhee (YA)
• Terrabella Smoot and the Unsung Monsters by Jon "Bean" Hastings (Y)
• Breaking Up by Aimee Friedman & Christine Norrie (GN)
• The Tarot Cafe #2 by Sang-Sun Park (M)
• Miki Falls #4: Winter by Mark Crilley (M)

3.9.08

• The Tarot Cafe #3 by Sang-Sun Park (M)
• The Tarot Cafe #4 by Sang-Sun Park (M)
• The Tarot Cafe #5 by Sang-Sun Park (M)

3.10.08

• Messy Thrilling Life: The Art of Figuring Out How to Live by Sabrina Ward Harrison (A-NF)
• The Secret Life of It Girls by Dakota Lane (YA)
• Sardine in Outer Space #2 by Emmanuel Guibert & Joann Sfar (GN)

3.11.08

• Penguin Revolution #1 by Sakura Tsukuba (M)
• Kashimashi #4 by Yukimaru Katsura (M)

3.12.08

• Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic (PB)
• I Luv Halloween #3 by Benjamin Roman & Keith Giffen (M)
• Bumperboy Loses His Marbles by Debbie Huey (GN)
• Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones by Judy Schachner (PB)

3.14.08

• So, What's It Like to Be a Cat? by Karla Kuskin & Betsy Lewin (PB)
• Crimson Hero #3 by Mitsuba Takanashi (M)

3.15.08

• High School Girls #1 by Towa Oshima (M)
• Menkui! #1 by Suzuki Tanaka (M)
• Crimson Hero #4 by Mitsuba Takanashi (M)
• Sardine in Outer Space #3 by Emmanuel Guibert & Joann Sfar (GN)
• Toots the Cat by Karla Kuskin & Lisze Bechtold (PB)

3.16.08

• Crimson Hero #5 by Mitsuba Takanashi (M)
• Brave on the Rocks: If You Don't Go, You Don't See by Sabrina Ward Harrison (A-NF)
• Kabuki: Circle of Blood by David Mack (GN)
• Demon Envy by Erin Lynn (YA)
• Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Artful Reading by Bob Raczka (Y-NF)

3.18.08

• A Crooked Kind of Perfect byLinda Urban (Y)
• Let Dai #6 by Sooyeon Won (M)

3.20.08

• Bubble Bath Pirates! by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (PB)
• Hopeless Savages #1 by Jen Van Meter, Christine Norrie, Andy Lis, Chynna Clugston-Major, & Andi Watson (GN)
• The Wanderer #1: Full Moon by Narumi Kakinouchi (M)
• Land of the Blindfolded #8 by Sakura Tsukuba (M)

3.22.08

• More Than Meets the Eye: Seeing Art With All Five Senses by Bob Raczka (Y-NF)
• Larry and Rita by Jamie Michalak & Jill Newton (PB)
• Here's Looking at Me: How Artists See Themselves by Bob Raczka (Y-NF)

3.23.08

• Strawberry Marshmallow #1 by Barasui (M)
• Get Backers #2 by Rando Ayamine & Yuya Aoki (M)
• How to Talk to Your Dog by Jean Craighead George & Sue Truesdell (Y-NF)
• How to Talk to Your Cat by Jean Craighead George & Paul Meisel (Y-NF)

3.24.08

• Ordinary Crush #2 by Hyouta Fujiyama (M)

3.25.08

• Crimson Hero #6 by Mitsuba Takanashi (M)
• Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine (GN)
• The Complete Geisha by Andi Watson (GN)
• Sardine in Outer Space #4 by Emmanuel Guibert & Joann Sfar (GN)

3.26.08

• Oddly Normal: Family Reunion by Otis Frampton & Sergio Quijada (GN)
• No One Saw: Ordinary Things Through the Eyes of an Artist by Bob Raczka (Y-NF)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)

3.27.08

• Nightmares & Fairy Tales: Once Upon a Time... by Serena Valentino & FSc (GN)
• The Lonely Moose by John Segal (PB)
• Eats by Marthe Jocelyn & Tom Slaughter (PB)

3.29.08

• Daffodil, Crocodile by Emily Jenkins & Tomek Bogacki (PB)
• Tree Ring Circus by Adam Rex (PB)
• Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Blood Alone #3 by Masayuki Takano (M)
• White Tiger: A Hero's Compulsion by Pierce, Liebe, Briones, Rio, Silva, & Hillsman (GN)
• Clubbing by Andi Watson & Josh Howard (GN)

3.30.08

• The Alphabetical Hookup List R-Z by Phoebe McPhee (YA)
• Banana Fish #3 by Akimi Yoshida (M)
• Banana Fish #4 by Akimi Yoshida (M)

3.31.08

• Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens (PB)
• Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale by Barbara Knutson (PB)
• Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion by Verna Aardema & Jerry Pinkney (PB)
• Clever Tortoise by Francesca Martin (PB)
• Anansi and the Talking Melon by Eric A. Kimmel & Janet Stevens (PB)
• Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel & Janet Stevens (PB)
• Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird by James Barry & Ann Grifalconi (PB)
• Anansi Goes Fishing by Eric A. Kimmel & Janet Stevens (PB)
• Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story by Johnny Arlee & Sam Sandoval (PB)
• Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad: A Traditional Navajo Story by Shonto Begay (PB)
• Coyote in Love by Mindy Dwyer (PB)
• Iktomi and the Boulder by Paul Goble (PB)
• Iktomi and the Ducks by Paul Goble (PB)
• Iktomi and the Buzzard by Paul Goble (PB)
• Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale by Jonathan London & Sylvia Long (PB)
• Coyote and the Fire Stick: A Pacific Northwest Indian Tale by Barbara Diamond Goldin & Will Hillenbrand (PB)
• Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott (PB)
• Quail Song by Valerie Scho Carey & Ivan Barnett (PB)
• Coyote Steals the Blanket: A Ute Tale by Janet Stevens (PB)
• Rabbit and the Moon by Douglas Wood & Leslie Baker (PB)
• Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies by Harriet Peck Taylor (PB)
• The Talking Vegetables by Won-Ldy Paye, Margaret H. Lippert, & Julie Paschkis (PB)
• Ananse and the Lizard: A West African Tale by Pat Cummings (PB)
• Anansi and the Magic Stick by Eric A. Kimmel & Janet Stevens (PB)
• And Me, Coyote! by Betty Baker & Maria Horvath (PB)
• Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables by Helen Ward (PB)

03/08 total: 112

24 graphic novels; 3 youth fiction; 40 picture books; 4 adult non fiction; 1 adult fiction; 5 young adult; 29 manga; 6 youth non fiction

Trickster myths

For April Fool's Day, I'm doing a program for my students on trickster tales from around the world. I went to the library and checked out a ton of picture books. :) And I just sat for a little over two hours, reading them. And...here they are!
(there are too many to list in my books read thinger at the bottom of this page)

I liked:

• Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens
• Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale by Barbara Knutson
• Clever Tortoise by Francesca Martin
• Anansi and the Talking Melon by Kimmel & Stevens
• Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Kimmel & Stevens
• Anansi Goes Fishing by Kimmel & Stevens
• Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad: A Traditional Navajo Story by Shonto Begay
• Coyote in Love by Mindy Dwyer
• Coyote and the Fire Stick: A Pacific Northwest Indian Tale by Goldin & Hillenbrand
• Quail Song by Carey & Barnett
• Coyote Steals the Blanket: A Ute Tale by Janet Stevens
• Rabbit and the Moon by Wood & Baker
• Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies by Harriet Peck Taylor
• The Talking Vegetables by Paye, Lippert, & Paschkis
• Ananse and the Lizard: A West African Tale by Pat Cummings
• And Me, Coyote! by Baker & Horvath

I liked not so much:

• Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion by Verna Aardema & Jerry Pinkney
• Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird by Berry & Grifalconi
• Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story by Arlee & Sandoval
• Iktomi and the Boulder by Paul Goble
• Iktomi and the Ducks by Paul Goble
• Iktomi and the Buzzard by Paul Goble
• Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale by London & Long
• Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott
• Anansi and the Magic Stick by Kimmel & Stevens

And my clear favorite of the evening:

• Unwitting Wisdom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables by Helen Ward