ReadaThing Readathon!

My library is on LibraryThing. I never really got into any of the groups because, quite honestly, I wasn't interested in what other people had to say about books so much. I like to make my own decisions and such. But one day, I saw a blurb about the ReadaThing group and I looked it up. They do Readathons! How cool.

So, I just signed up for the August Readathon! It's on August 22nd and they were scheduling people so that someone (or several someones) around the world is reading for every hour of that day. I signed up for 12:00 am & 1:00 am EST (which is actually 10 & 11 pm the day before for me here in MST). But that's cool.

The theme is Reading in Public. I think I'll head out to the local Denny's and read for two hours on that day. :) I even have a sign to print out for it. FUN!

A new favorite word

I discovered this word a few weeks ago while reading Foyle's Philavery and thought it was a pretty cool word. But then...I found this word in a youth book about cats, Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel. How cool is that?

Anyway, the word is crepuscular. It means active at twilight (dawn and dusk).

:)

books i've read july 2010

7.4.10

• Captivate by Carrie Jones (YA)
• Why the Cheetah Cheats: And Other Mysteries of the Natural World by Lewis Smith (A-NF)

7.5.10

• Whip Smart by Melissa Febos (A-NF)
• Total Oblivion, More or Less by Alan DeNiro (A)

7.9.10

• The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger (A-NF)

7.12.10

• Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz (A-NF)

7.13.10

• Dead to Me by Anton Strout (A)

7.14.10

• Classic by Cecily von Zeigesar (YA)

7.15.10

• Curse of the ChupaCabra by Rudolfo Anaya (YA)
• Ender's Game: Battle School by Orson Scott Card, Christopher Yost, Pasqual Ferry, & Frank D'Armata (GN)

7.16.10

• ChupaCabra and the Roswell UFO by Rudolfo Anaya (YA)

7.19.10

• Peter & Max by Bill Willingham & Steve Leialoha (A)

7.20.10

• 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman (A-NF)
• Irving Penn Portraits by Magdalene Keaney (A-NF)
• Bleach #31 by Tite Kubo (M)
• Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration by Troy Paiva (A-NF)
• Facehunter by Yvan Rodic (A-NF)

7.21.10

• Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto by Eric Luper (YA)
• Zombie-Loan #9 by Peach-Pit (M)

7.22.10

• The Purple Kangaroo by Michael Ian Black & Peter Brown (PB)
• Lawn to Lawn by Dan Yaccarino (PB)
• Ollie's Easter Eggs by Olivier Dunrea (PB)

7.24.10

• Hope on a Tightrope by Cornel West (A-NF)
• Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce (YA)

7.26.10

• How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story by Kirk Read (A-NF)

7.27.10

• Bittle by Patricia MacLachlan, Emily MacLachlan, & Dan Yaccarino (PB)
• Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants by Debra Lee Baldwin (A-NF)

7.28.10

• The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro (A-NF)

7.29.10

• Prejudice: A Story Collection edited by Daphne Muse (YA)
• The Ghosts of Ashbury High by Jaclyn Moriarty (YA)

7.30.10

• Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready (YA)

7.31.10

• Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel (Y)
• Zombiekins by Kevin Bolger & Aaron Blacha (Y)
• How to Ride a Dragon's Storm by Cressida Cowell (Y)

07.10 total: 34

9 young adult fiction; 12 adult non fiction; 3 adult fiction; 1 graphic novel; 2 manga; 4 picture books; 3 youth fiction