Books I've Read February 2008

2.1.08

• Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn (A)
• Sam Tells Stories by Thierry Robberecht & Phillippe Goossens (PB)
• Fletcher and the Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson & Tiphanie Beeke (PB)
• Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann & Elizabeth Kann (PB)
• Fiona Loves the Night by Patricia MacLachlan, Emily MacLachlan Charest, & Amanda Shepherd (PB)
• X-Treme X-Men: Prisoner of Fire by Claremont, Kordey, & Larroca (GN)

2.2.08

• ABC by William Wegman (PB)
• Abracadabra! Magic with Mouse and Mole by Wong Herbert Yee (Y)
• Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones (YA)
• God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant (YA)
• The One I Love by CLAMP (M)

2.3.08

• You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah! by Fiona Rosenbloom (YA)

2.4.08

• Ordinary Crush #1 by Hyouta Fujiyama (M)
• Melted Love by You Takumi (M)
• Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye by Kaza Kingsley (Y)

2.6.08

• The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone by Timothy Basil Ering (PB)
• Skip Beat #4 by Yoshiki Nakamura (M)
• Lie to Me by Youngran Lee (M)

2.7.08

• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (YA)
• You Remind Me of You by Eireann Corrigan (YA)
• Return to Labyrinth #2 by Jake T. Forbes & Chris Lie (M)

2.8.08

• The Breast Book: Attitude, Perception, Envy & Etiquette by Maura Spiegel & Lithe Sebesta (A-NF)
• The Squampkin Patch by JT Petty (Y)
• Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens by Liz Goldwyn (A-NF)

2.9.08

• Seven Deadly Sins: Lust by Robin Wasserman (YA)
• Wild Blood by Kate Thompson (YA)
• Tall Cool One by Zoey Dean (YA)

2.10.08

• Transmetropolitan: Back in the Street by Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson (GN)
• Civil War: Iron Man by Gage, Haun, Knauf, Zircher, Bendis, & Maleev (GN)
• The Wallflower #12 by Tomoko Hayakawa (M)

2.13.08

• Alcohol, Shirt & Kiss by Yuko Kuwabara (M)
• Gorgeous Carat #2 by You Higuri (M)
• Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts! #4 by Haruka Fukushima (M)
• Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon (YA)

2.14.08

• Uncanny X-Men: Hope by Austen, Garney, & Phillips (GN)
• Civil War: Captain America by Brubaker, Perkins, & Weeks (GN)

2.15.08

• The Alphabetical Hookup List A-J by Phoebe McPhee (YA)

2.16.08

• Why War Is Never a Good Idea by Alice Walker & Stefano Vitale (PB)
• Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Sabrina Ward Harrison (A-NF)

2.17.08

• Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes (A)
• Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld (YA)
• Vampire Kisses 4: Dance With a Vampire by Ellen Schreiber (YA)

2.18.08

• Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones (YA)

2.19.08

• Shout Out Loud! #1 by Satosumi Takaguchi (M)
• Nosatsu Junkie #4 by Kyoko Fukuyama (M)

2.20.08

• X-Men: Deadly Genesis by Brubaker, Hairsine, Hanna (GN)
• Nana #8 by Ai Yazawa (M)

2.22.08

• Get Backers #1 by Rando Ayamine & Yuya Aoki (M)
• Patrick the Wolf Boy #4 by Art Baltazar & Franco Aureliani (GN)

2.23.08

• Bumperboy and the Loud, Loud Mountain by Debbie Huey (GN)

2.24.08

• Oddly Normal #1 by Otis Frampton (GN)

2.27.08

• Many Bloody Returns edited by Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner (A)

2.28.08

• Warriors #1: The Lost Warrior by Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley, & James L. Barry (GN)
• Big Fat Little Lit edited by Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly (GN)
• Warriors #2: Warrior's Refuge by Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley, & James L. Barry (GN)
• Steam Park by Filippo Neri & Piero Ruggeri (GN)
• Zen Ties by Jon J. Muth (PB)
• Lookit! Comedy & Mayhem #1: A Cheese Related Mishap and Other Stories by Ray Friesen (GN)
• Missouri Boy by Leland Myrick (GN)
• A Bit Haywire by Courtney Huddleston & Scott Zirkel (GN)
• Master Breasts: Objectified, Aesteticized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Feminized by Photography's Most Titillating Masters (A-NF)

02/08 total: 61

3 adult fiction; 8 picture books; 16 graphic novels; 3 youth fiction; 13 young adult fiction; 14 manga; 4 adult non fiction

Rediscovered quotes

While putting together a birthday present for a friend, I found some good quotes that I wanted to share.

'Controversial,' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.'
--Kevin Smith


"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, soungs, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar."
--from Inkspell by Cornelia Funke


...all the books we own, both read and unread, are t he fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
--Nick Hornby from The Polysyllabic Spree


"This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure."
--James Lecesne from "My Best Girlfriend"


Consider pain to be a form of emotional energy that, like any other form of energy, can neither be created nor destroyed. The act of suicide, rather than acting as an end to that pain, instead acts as a conductor. The pain follows the path of least resistance to those who were closest to you at the time, like a bolt of lightning striking a tree during a storm.
--Kaitlyn Tierney Duggan from "Hatchback"

New books--Now in one convenient post!

I saved up my new books until I had a bunch so that I'm not posting every other day.

Paperbackswapped & bookmooched:

• Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh #1 by Kouhei Kadono & Kouji Ogata
• My Paranoid Next Door Neighbor by Kazuka Minami

Both probably destined to be sent back out to be swapped or mooched...

Found cheap at B&N and Borders:

• Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
• To Serve and Submit by Susan Wright

These are actually on my to read list. Sweet!

• Scouting for Girls: The Original 1920 Girl Scout Handbook by the Girl Scouts, Inc.
• A Pound of Flesh by Susan Wright

Librarything has this new early reviewers program where you can request advance copies of books to read and review. It's pretty sweet. But there's huge lists for them every month. But I snagged one!

• Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont

We'll see how it is. I'll post my review here, if I write one. I'm not so good with my thoughts, though...at least, getting them out coherently.

Poems & quotes

Poems from two of the books I read yesterday and a quote from a book I read last week...

In the Morning

there's
this golden moment
when the sun
licks through the gauze
fluttering at my window
warming my eyelids to opening

this golden moment
when I'm not yet awake enough
to remember
that there are things
I would rather
forget
--Sonya Sones


God Got a Dog

He never meant to.
He liked dogs, He'd
liked them ever since He was a kid,
but He didn't think
He had time for a dog now.
He was always working
and dogs needed so
much attention.
God didn't know if He
could like being needed
by one more thing.
But He saw this dog
out by the tracks
and it was hungry
and cold
and lonely
and God realized
He'd made that dog
somehow,
somehow He was responsible
though He knows logically
that He had only set the
world on its course.
He couldn't be blamed
for everything.
But He saw this dog
and He felt bad
so He took it on home
and named it Ernie
and now God
has somebody
keeping His feet warm at night.
--Cynthia Rylant



Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too.
--David Levithan from Marly's Ghost

Crazy book hoarding day!

I wanted to go get Darkling from Borders because I want to know what happens in the series! And I had a good coupon and $15 in free book money, so...I got these:

• Her Majesty's Dog #7 by Mick Takeuchi
• Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn
• The Book of Luke by Jenny O'Connell

The last one was b/c it was so cheap! I got two other cheap books and when I looked them up on Paperbackswap, there's huge waiting lists! So I immediately posted them. Eh, they looked interesting, but not that interesting. They were $2 each.

And because I was so bored tonight while I was working at the library, I wandered around and found a bunch of books I've been wanting to read. So I'm hoarding, again. *sighs* And I was doing so good! I had finally gotten down to under 30 items checked out again!

Oh well...

Books I've Read January 2008

1/1/08

• Ratatouille: Too Many Cooks by Nate Wragg & Margaret McNamara (PB)
• Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees, and Other Creatures of the Republic by Robert Lanham (A)
• Civil War: Front Line v. 1 by Jenkins, Bachs, Lieber, & Weeks (GN)
• Civil War: Front Line v. 2 by Jenkins, Bachs, Lieber, & Weeks (GN)

1/2/08

• Civil War: X-Men Universe by David, Calero, Nicieza, & Johnson (GN)
• The A-List by Zoey Dean (YA)
• Ororo: Before the Storm by Marc Sumerak, Carlo Barberi, & Scott Hepburn (GN)

1/3/08

• X-Treme X-Men: Intifada by Chris Claremont, Igor Kordey, Salvador Larroca, Scott Hanna, & Greg Adams (GN)

1/4/08

• ttyl by Lauren Myracle (YA)
• Coyote Stories for Children by Susan Strauss (Y)
• Civil War by Millar, McNiven, Vines, & Hollowell (GN)

1/5/08

• Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything: The Jealousy Book edited by Marissa Walsh (YA)

1/6/08

• The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! by Mo Willems (PB)
• Found Alphabet by Ramon Shindler, Wojciech Graniczewski, Anita Andrzejewska, & Andrzej Pilichowski-Ragno (PB)
• Wild About Books by Judy Sierra & Marc Brown (PB)
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Y)
• The Wizard of London by Mercedes Lackey (A)

1/7/08

• Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan (YA)

1/8/08

• Gorgeous Carat #1 by You Higuri (M)
• Magical X Miracle #1 by Yuzu Mizutani (M)
• Young Avengers: Sidekicks by Allan Heinberg & Jim Cheung (GN)

1/10/08

• Young Avengers: Family Matters by Allan Heinberg, Andrea Divito, & Jim Cheung (GN)
• Fantastic Butterflys by James Kochalka (GN)
• Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric Kaplan (GN)
• Civil War: Marvel Universe (GN)

1/11/08

• The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service #2 by Eiji Otsuka & Housui Yamazaki (M)
• Pine Kiss #1 by Eunhye Lee (M)
• The Professor's Daughter by Joann Sfar & Emmanual Guibert (GN)
• The Pigeon Loves Things That Go! by Mo Willems (PB)

1/12/08

• Backstage Prince #2 by Kanoko Sakurakoji (M)
• Alice 19th #7: The Lost Word by Yuu Watase (M)
• African American Vernacular Photography (A-NF)
• Only In Your Dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)
• Embraced by Darkness by Keri Arthur (A)

1/13/08

• The Pot of Wisdom: Ananse Stories by Adwoa Badoe & Baba Wague Diakite (Y)
• Freak Show by James St. James (YA)
• Puss in Boots by Steve Light (PB)

1/14/08

• Girls on Film by Zoey Dean (YA)

1/15/08

• Rainbow Party by Paul Ruditis (YA)
• In the Cards: Love by Mariah Fredericks (YA)

1/16/08

• Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard (PB)
• Nosatsu Junkie #2 by Ryoko Fukuyama (M)
• Nosatsu Junkie #3 by Ryoko Fukuyama (M)

1/17/08

• King and King by Linda de Haan & Stern Nijland (PB)
• The Bad Book by Aranzi Aronzo (GN)
• Land of the Blindfolded #7 by Sakura Tsukuba (M)
• Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts! #3 by Haruka Fukushima (M)
• Skip Beat! #2 by Yoshiki Nakamura (M)
• Totally Uncool by Janice Levy & Chris Monroe (PB)

1/18/08

• Sylvie and True by David McPhail (PB)
• Super Guinea Pig to the Rescue by Udo Weigelt & Nina Spranger (PB)
• Wegmanology by William Wegman (PB)
• The Sissy Duckling by Harvey Fierstein & Henry Cole (PB)
• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, & Henry Cole (PB)
• Confessions of a Blabbermouth by Mike Carey, Louise Carey, & Aaron Alexovich (GN)
• Camera Camera Camera #1 by Kazura Matsumoto (M)
• Civil War: Fantastic Four by Straczynski, McDuffie, & McKone (GN)
• X-Treme X-Men: Storm--the Arena by Claremont & Korday (GN)
• Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits (Y)
• Peach Girl: Change of Heart #1 by Miwa Ueda (M)

1/19/08

• Man's Best Friend by William Wegman (A-NF)
• Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color by Elizabeth Alexander & Marilyn Nelson (YA)
• Storm by Dickey, Yardin, Medina, Leisten, & Parsons (GN)
• An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (A-NF)
• Switchers by Kate Thompson (Y)

1/20/08

• Would I Lie to You by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)
• Bloom! A Little Book About Finding Love by Maria van Lieshout (PB)
• Don't You Forget About Me by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)

1/21/08

• The Insiders by J. Minter (YA)

1/23/08

• Klezmer, Book One: Tales of the Wild East by Joann Sfar (GN)
• Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems by John Grandits (Y)
• Lord of the Animals: A Miwok Indian Creation Myth by Fiona French (PB)

1/24/08

• Dark Moon Diary #1 by Che Gilson & Brett Uher (M)
• Nana #7 by Ai Yazawa (M)

1/25/08

• I'd Really Like to Eat a Child by Sylviane Donnio & Dorothee de Monfreid (PB)
• Chester by Ayano Imai (PB)
• My Dog Is as Smelly as Dirty Socks by Hanoch Piven (PB)
• Fox by Kate Banks & Georg Hallensleben (PB)
• The Boy Who Cried Fabulous by Leslea Newman & Peter Ferguson (PB)
• Someday's Dreamers--Spellbound #1 by Norie Yamada & Kumichi Yoshizuki (M)
• Someday's Dreamers--Spellbound #2 by Norie Yamada & Kumichi Yoshizuki (M)
• Someday's Dreamers--Spellbound #3 by Norie Yamada & Kumichi Yoshizuki (M)
• Someday's Dreamers--Spellbound #4 by Norie Yamada & Kumichi Yoshizuki (M)
• King & King & Family by Linda de Haan & Stern Nijland (PB)
• Blonde Ambition by Zoey Dean (YA)

1/26/08

• Princess Princess #4 by Mikiyo Tsuda (M)
• Princess Princess #5 by Mikiyo Tsuda (M)
• Angel Sanctuary #20 by Kaori Yuki (M)
• Stake That! by Mari Mancusi (YA)

1/27/08

• Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild & Anne Soudvilas (YA)
• Der Struwwelmaakies by Tony Millionaire (GN)
• Midnight's Choice by Kate Thompson (Y)
• Marly's Ghost by David Levithan (YA)

1/28/08

• The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)
• Babymouse: Skater Girl by Jennifer L. Holm & Matt Holm (Y)

1/30/08

• Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk (PB)
• Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport & Bryan Collier (PB)
• When Randolph Turned Rotten by Charise Mericle Harper (PB)
• bOObs: A Guide to Your Girls by Elisabeth Squires (A-NF)

1/31/08

• Anne Freaks #3 by Yua Kotegawa (M)
• Anne Freaks #4 by Yua Kotegawa (M)

01/08 total: 101

25 picture books; 3 adult fiction; 19 graphic novels; 18 young adult; 8 youth fiction; 24 manga; 4 adult non-fiction