books i've read september 2010

9.4.10

• May Bird Among the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson (Y)
• Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love by Chris Roberson & Shawn McManus (GN)
• Brains for Lunch: A Zombie Novel in Haiku?! by K.A. Holt & Gahan Wilson (Y)

9.6.10

• Just Grace by Charise Mericle Harper (Y)

9.7.10

• Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life by Rachel Renee Russell (Y)

9.10.10

• Sweethearts by Sara Zarr (YA)

9.11.10

• She's So Dead to Us by Kieran Scott (YA)

9.13.10

• Gender Studies: Terms and Debates by Anne Cranny-Francis, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropolous, & Joan Kirby (A-NF)
• Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox (A-NF)

9.14.10

• Undone by Rachel Caine (A)

9.17.10

• Guardians of Being by Eckhart Tolle & Patrick McDonnell (A-NF)
• Creepiosity: A Hilarious Guide to the Unintentionally Creepy by David Bickel (A-NF)

9.18.10

• Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer (Y)
• Nibbles: A Green Tale by Charlotte Middleton (PB)
• Seasons by Blexbolex (PB)
• Todd's TV by James Proimos (PB)
• Flight of the Dodo by Peter Brown (PB)
• InDognito: A Book of Canines in Costume by Karen Ngo (A-NF)

9.19.10

• Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist, Book Two: The Basilisk's Lair by R.L. LaFevers (Y)
• The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade (YA)

9.20.10

• Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. edited by David Nadelberg (A-NF)

9.23.10

• South by Patrick McDonnell (PB)

9.24.10

• The Treehouse Book by Candida Collins (A-NF)
• The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston (YA)

9.25.10

• Yucky Worms by Vivian French & Jessica Ahlberg (PB)
• Good Night, Commander by Ahmad Akbarpour & Morteza Zahedi (PB)
• The Secret Lives of Princesses by Philippe Lechermeier & Rebecca Dautremer (YA)
• Playing in Traffic by Gail Giles (YA)

9.26.10

• The Selby Is In Your Place by Todd Selby (A-NF)
• Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl by Rachel Renee Russell (Y)

9.27.10

• Wolf Wanted by Ana Maria Machado & Laurent Cardon (PB)
• An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson collected by Agnes Sire & Jean-Luc Nancy (A-NF)
• The Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow (Y)

9.29.10

• Burned by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (YA)

09.10 total: 34

8 youth fiction; 1 graphic novel; 7 young adult fiction; 9 adult non fiction; 1 adult fiction; 8 picture books

books i've read august 2010

8.3.10

• Un Lun Dun by Chine Mieville (YA)

8.5.10

• Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey (YA)
• Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel (PB)
• Stinky by Eleanor Davis (GN)
• The Truth About Princesses by Nancy Kelly Allen & Youngsun Kim (PB)
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned by Michael J. Fox (A-NF)

8.6.10

• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins (YA)

8.7.10

• The Wild & Weedy Apothecary by Doreen Shababy (A-NF)

8.8.10

• May Bird and the Ever After by Jodi Lynn Anderson (Y)

8.9.10

• Daphne's Book by Mary Downing Hahn (Y)

8.11.10

• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (Y)
• Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (A)

8.12.10

• He Came with the Couch by David Slonim (PB)
• Thesaurus Rex by Laya Steinberg & Debbie Harter (PB)
• All Around the Seasons by Barney Saltzberg (PB)
• I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew by Dr. Seuss (PB)
• Tough Chicks by Cece Meng & Melissa Suber (PB)
• Skelly & Femur by Jimmy Pickering (PB)
• The Searcher and Old Tree by David McPhail (PB)

8.14.10

• Aunt Epp's Guide for Life: Miscellaneous Musings of a Victorian Lady by Elspeth Marr & edited by Christopher Rush (A-NF)
• Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology edited by Amy Sonnie (YA-NF)

8.15.10

• Spooky Little Girl by Laurie Notaro (A)

8.17.10

• The Incorrigible Children of Aston Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood (Y)

8.21.10

• Where Is Catkin? by Janet Lord & Julie Paschkis (PB)
• Tutus Aren't My Style by Linda Skeers & Anne Wilsdorf (PB)
• Here Comes the Bride by Beatrice Masini & Anna Laura Cantone (PB)
• Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates (PB)
• Calvin Can't Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie by Jennifer Berne & Keith Bendis (PB)
• Sugar's Yummy Fall by Ellie O'Ryan & Jason Fruchter (PB)
• It's a Book by Lane Smith (PB)
• The Turning: What Curiosity Kills by Helen Ellis (YA)
• Dear Vampa by Ross Collins (PB)

8.22.10

• Brigid of Kildare by Heather Terrell (A)
• Through the Lens: National Geographic Greatest Photographs edited by John Fahey & Paul Martin (A-NF)

8.23.10

• Dad and Pop: An Ode to Fathers & Stepfathers by Kelly Bennett & Paul Meisel (PB)
• Black Magic by Dinah Johnson & R. Gregory Christie (PB)
• Paulie Pastrami Achieves World Peace by James Proimos (PB)
• Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (GN)

8.26.10

• Me & Death: An Afterlife Adventure by Richard Scrimger (YA)

8.27.10

• Patricia von Pleasantsquirrel by James Proimos (PB)

8.28.10

• The Hob's Bargain by Patricia Briggs (A)

08.10 total: 41

5 young adult fiction; 21 picture books; 2 graphic novels; 4 adult non fiction; 4 youth fiction; 4 adult fiction; 1 young adult non fiction

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

books i've read june 2010

6.2.10

• Embers by Laura Bickle (A)

6.4.10

• Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman's Quest for an Orgasm by Mara Altman (A-NF)
• Full Moon by Rachel Hawthorne (YA)
• The Optimist's/Pessimist's Handbook: A Companion to Hope/Despair by Niall Edworthy & Petra Cramsie (A-NF)

6.6.10

• Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom by Queen Latifah (A-NF)
• Dark of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne (YA)

6.7.10

• The Bizarre and Incredible World of Plants by Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, & Medeline Harley (A-NF)

6.9.10

• Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann (A-NF)

6.10.10

• Illyria by Elizabeth Hand (YA)

6.11.10

• Dragon Flight by Jessica Day George (YA)
• American Ruins by Arthur Drooker (A-NF)

6.13.10

• It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman by Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson & Patricia Mulcahy (A-NF)

6.15.10

• How They See Us: Meditations on America edited by James Atlas (A-NF)

6.16.10

• F U, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What's What by Matthew Gasteier (A-NF)
• White Cat by Holly Black (YA)

6.17.10

• Little Miss Bad by Roger Hargreaves (PB)
• Little Miss Scary by Roger Hargreaves (PB)

6.18.10

• The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eleventh Grade Burns by Heather Brewer (YA)

6.19.10

• Hourglass by Claudia Gray (YA)

6.22.10

• If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers by Jack Bowen (A-NF)

6.23.10

• Jones Beach by Joseph Szabo (A-NF)
• Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan (A-NF)

6.24.10

• Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne (A-NF)
• The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (YA)
• Foyle's Philavery compiled by Christopher Foyle (A-NF)

6.25.10

• I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It by Adam Selzer (YA)
• Hey, Rabbit! by Sergio Ruzzier (PB)
• The Tooth Fairy Meets El Raton Perez by Rene Calato Lainez & Tom Lintern (PB)
• The Tree House by Marije Tolman & Ronald Tolman (PB)
• The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer (YA)

6.26.10

• Smile by Raina Tilgemeier (GN)

6.28.10

• Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George (YA)
• The Thingamabob by Il Sung Na (PB)
• Do Not Build a Frankenstein! by Neil Numberman (PB)

6.29.10

• Nose Down, Eyes Up by Merrill Markoe (A)
• Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein & Susan Kim (A-NF)

6.30.10

• Objectivity: A Designer's Book of Curious Tools by David Usborne (A-NF)

o6.10 total: 37
16 adult non fiction; 2 adult fiction; 7 picture books; 11 young adult fiction; 1 graphic novel

books i've read may 2010

5.1.10

• Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty (PB)
  
• In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap by Alexs Pate (A-NF)

5.2.10

• Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich (A)

5.5.10

• Adored by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)

5.6.10

• Itty Bitty by Cece Bell (PB)
• The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood & Renata Liwska (PB)

5.7.10

• Oddly by Joyce Dunbar & Patrick Benson (PB)
• The Falling Raindrop by Neil Johnson & Joel Chin (PB)

5.8.10

• New Mexico Curiosities by Sam Lowe (A-NF)

5.9.10

• The Naughty List by Suzanne Young (YA)
• Ms. Wiz Spells Trouble by Terence Blacker & Tony Ross (Y)

5.10.10

• Cat the Cat, Who Is That? by Mo Willems (PB)
• Big Wolf & Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec (PB)
  
• My Heart Is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall (PB)
• Lom and the Gnatters by Kurusa & Isabel Ferrer (PB)
• Bee-Wigged by Cece Bell (PB)

5.11.10

• Be Generous: 101 Meditations and Suggestions to Get You Through the Day (and Night) by David Marell (A-NF)
• On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (A-NF)

5.12.10

• happyface by Stephen Emond (YA)

5.13.10

• The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward (PB)
• Strega Nona's Harvest by Tomie dePaola (PB)
• My Garden by Kevin Henkes (PB)
• Hiccup the Seasick Viking by Cressida Cowell (PB)
• The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny, & Lisa Rinzler (A-NF)

5.14.10

• Riding Invisible by Sandra Alonzo & Nathan Huang (YA)

5.15.10

• The Costume Party by Victoria Chess (PB)
• Kitty's Cuddles by Jane Cabrera (PB)
• Bob and Otto by Robert O. Bruel & Nick Bruel (PB)
• Stanley's Beauty Contest by Linda Bailey & Bill Slavin (PB)
• Wallace's Lists by Barbara Bottner, Gerald Kruglik, & Olof Landstrom (PB)
• Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Bemelmans Marciano (A-NF)
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan (YA)

5.16.10

• Beautiful Dead: Jonas by Eden Maguire (YA)
• Foyle's Further Philavery: A Cornucopia of Lexical Delights compiled by Christopher Foyle (A-NF)

5.17.10

• Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George (YA)

5.18.10

• Creature by Andrew Zuckerman (A-NF)
• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey (A-NF)
• Vatos by Jose Galvez & Luis Alberto Urrea (A-NF)
• Monkey Portraits by Jill Greenberg (A-NF)
• The Best Camera Is the One That's With You by Chase Jarvis (A-NF)
• Bookworm by Rosamond Purcell (A-NF)

5.19.10

• The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting (YA)

5.20.10

• Hip Hop Dog by Chris Raschka & Vladimir Radunsky (PB)
• Not Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennett & Noah B. Jones (PB)
• Green Angel by Alice Hoffman (YA)
• Green Witch by Alice Hoffman (YA)

5.21.10

• My So-Called Death by Stacey Jay (YA)

5.22.10

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (A-NF)

5.24.10

• Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers (YA)
• How to Twist a Dragon's Tale by Cressida Cowell (Y)

5.26.10

• The Waking: Dreams of the Dead by Thomas Randall (YA)
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise (A-NF)

5.27.10

• Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors by Joyce Sidman & Beckie Prange (Y-NF)
• Just Like Bossy Bear by David Horvath (PB)
• The Grouchies by Debbie Wagenbach & Steve Mack (PB)
• Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun & Spite by June Casagrande (A-NF)

5.30.10

• Mortal Syntax: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs--Even If You're Right by June Casagrande (A-NF)

5.31.10

• Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths by Mardy Grothe (A-NF)
• Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss (A-NF)

05.10 total: 59

23 picture books; 19 adult non fiction; 1 adult fiction; 13 young adult fiction; 2 youth fiction; 1 youth non fiction