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You know those little memes (or whatever they are) that go around every once in awhile on Facebook where they ask you to report the first full sentence on a certain page of the closest book to you?  I love those things!  I find them so much fun.

So I thought...why not do it in my blog for the books that I'm reading?  That sounds like lots of geeky fun to me! :)  I'm going to do it!  I won't post every day, but I'll do it every once in awhile.  Here's the first installment!

I will look at the first full sentence on page 42.

"The truck fishtailed on the thankfully empty gravel parking area as I slammed on the brakes, bringing us to a shuddering halt."
--from Cupid Cats by Katie MacAlister, Vicki Lewis Thompson, & Connie Brockway

"By the time I drag myself down to breakfast--feeling as though someone is grinding sand into both of my eyes--the official story about the incident at the labs has been released."
--from Delirium by Lauren Oliver

"I only passed by a few points and my parents gave me a big lecture when I got my scores back."
--from The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett by Tom Angleberger

""Why don't you just tell me that you had a suspicion something was wrong and went out to patrol under your own initiative?""
--from Kitty in the Underworld by Carrie Vaughn

See?  Isn't this fun?

books i've read february 2014

2.1.14

• It Takes a Witch by Heather Blake (A)
• Kiss the Dead by Laurell K. Hamilton (A)

2.2.14

• Cat Vs. Human: Another Dose of Catnip by Yasmine Surovec (A)
• Ice Cream & Sadness: More Comics from Cyanide & Happiness by Kris, Rob, Matt, & Dave (A)
• Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants by The Oatmeal (A)
• Dick and Jane: Fun Wherever We Are by Grosset & Dunlap (Y)
• Dick and Jane: Fun with Our Family by Grosset & Dunlap (Y)
• Dick and Jane: We Play Outside by Grosset & Dunlap (Y)

2.4.14

• Giant-Size X-Men #1 by Len Wein & Dave Cockrum (C)
• X-Men #94 by Chris Claremont, Len Wein, & Dave Cockrum (C)

2.5.14

• Black Butler #1 by Yana Toboso (M)
• Dawn of the Arcana #4 by Rei Toma (M)
• Blood Rites by Jim Butcher (A)

2.6.14

• Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez (A)
• Dawn of the Arcana #5 by Rei Toma (M)

2.7.14

• Dawn of the Arcana #6 by Rei Toma (M)
• Dawn of the Arcana #7 by Rei Toma (M)
• Dawn of the Arcana #8 by Rei Toma (M)
• Dawn of the Arcana #9 by Rei Toma (M)
• Dawn of the Arcana #10 by Rei Toma (M)
• Black Butler #2 by Yana Toboso (M)
• Black Butler #3 by Yana Toboso (M)

2.8.14

• Black Butler #4 by Yana Toboso (M)
• Black Butler #5 by Yana Toboso (M)
• Black Butler #6 by Yana Toboso (M)

2.9.14

• Confessions of a Serial Kisser by Wendelin Van Draanen (YA)
• Black Butler #7 by Yana Toboso (M)
• Black Butler #8 by Yana Toboso (M)

2.11.14

• Cress by Marissa Meyer (YA)

2.15.14

• Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (A)
• Black Butler #9 by Yana Toboso (M)

2.16.14

• Black Butler #10 by Yana Toboso (M)
• The Hueys in It Wasn't Me by Oliver Jeffers (PB)

2.18.14

• Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm by Christopher Cooper (A)
• Black Butler #11 by Yana Toboso (M)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Y)

2.19.14

• Black Butler #12 by Yana Toboso (M)

2.21.14

• Magic Lessons by Justine Larbalestier (YA)

2.22.14

• Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion by Simon Guerrier (A)

2.23.14

• Little Rabbit Lost by Harry Horse (PB)
• Here Comes the Easter Cat by Deborah Underwood & Claudia Rueda (PB)
• Maple by Lori Nichols (PB)
• The Tortoise & the Hare by Jerry Pinkney (PB)
• A Bunny in the Ballet by Robert Beck (PB)
• Early Bird by Toni Yuly (PB)
• Hello Kitty: Delicious! by Jacob Chabot, Ian McGinty, Jorge Monlongo, & Stephanie Buscema (GN)
• Cub's Big World by Sarah L. Thomson & Joe Cepeda (PB)
• Today I Will Fly! by Mo Willems (PB)
• Baby Bear by Kadir Nelson (PB)
• Friends by Eric Carle (PB)
• Lion Vs. Rabbit by Alex Latimer (PB)
• Superworm by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (PB)
• Daisy and Josephine by Melissa Gilbert (PB)
• When Elephant Met Giraffe by Paul Gude (PB)
• Smile! by Leigh Hodgkinson (PB)
• City Cat by Kate Banks & Lauren Castillo (PB)
• Buddy and the Bunnies in: Don't Play with Your Food! by Bob Shea (PB)
• Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty & David Roberts (PB)
• Duck, Duck, Moose! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallan & Noah Z. Jones (PB) 

2.24.14

• Hollow City by Ransom Briggs (YA)

2.26.14

• Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs (A)

2.27.14

• Bossypants by Tina Fey (A-NF)
• Bobcat Babies by Lisa Husar & Mike Husar (PB)

2.28.14

• I Howl I Growl by Marcia Vaughan & Polly Powell (PB)

 02.14 total: 64
11 adult fiction; 4 youth fiction; 2 comics; 19 manga; 4 young adult fiction; 22 picture books; 1 graphic novel; 1 adult non fiction