Failure

*sighs*

I failed at not checking out any more library books. :(

No more library books!

Okay, in order to focus on some of my personal challenges like 1) reading some of my books over break and 2) reading all the Sookie Stackhouse books over break, I must not check out any more library books. Not permanently, just for awhile. Until I read some of the things I have. So the list I have now should not grow...unless some of my "on hold" books come in. I also culled some books I wasn't super excited about reading now in order to shorten the list.

Wish me luck.

Sookie Stackhouse!

Okay, so I never got into the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. I read the first one and was like "Eh. Okay." and never read any more. But I liked some of her other books. And then I got the first season of True Blood from Best Buy for $15. And I watched it. And it was awesome. So I decided to give Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse another try...

I got the first book from the library and read it in a couple days. But they didn't have the second one! So I bought it from the used bookstore. And then I remembered that our departmental secretary, Alma, loves the series. And I remembered seeing all the books in her office. So I visited her yesterday and she loaned them all (except the very new one) to me!

She sort of issued a challenge for me. She said she was sure that I would have them all read by the end of break. I have that to aspire to! But I'm still trying to get to my reading my own books challenge...if only there weren't so many interesting books at the library!!

How many have you read?

Meme from Facebook. :)

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES.

Bold those books you've read in their entirety.

Italicize the ones you're reading now, or you've started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (started)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible (excerpts)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (read some)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (started)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (started)

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (started)

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante (excerpts)

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

books i've read november 2010

11.1.10

• The Hound of Rowan by Henry H. Neff (YA)

11.2.10

• The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger (GN)
• Cloaked in Red by Vivian Vande Velde (YA)
• In Odd We Trust by Dean Koontz & Queenie Chan (GN)

11.4.10

• Love Is a Special Way of Feeling by Joan Walsh Anglund (PB)
• Puppetry of the Penis: The Ancient Australian Art of Genital Origami by Simon Morley & David Friend (A-NF)
• Love Bites by Ellen Schreiber (YA)

11.5.10

• Skinwalker by Faith Hunter (A)

11.6.10

• Constance and Tiny by Pierre Le Gall & Eric Heliot (PB)
• Constance and the Great Escape by Pierre Le Gall & Eric Heliot (PB)
• Cap'n Smudge by Stephen Cosgrove & Robin James (PB)
• Catundra by Stephen Cosgrove & Robin James (PB)
• I Love Guinea Pigs by Dick King-Smith & Anita Jeram (PB)
• The Art of Overeating by Leslie Landis (A-NF)

11.7.10

• Twelfth Grade Kills by Heather Brewer (YA)

11.8.10

• If I Stay by Gayle Forman (YA)
• Ted by Tony DiTerlizzi (PB)
• King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (A-NF)

11.9.10

• Deadline by Chris Crutcher (YA)
• Mindful Knitting: Inviting Contemplative Practice to the Craft by Tara Jon Manning (A-NF)

11.11.10

• The Beloved Dearly by Doug Cooney (Y)

11.14.10

• The Search for WondLa by Tony Diterlizzi (YA)
• Hold Still by Nina LaCour (YA)
• Boom! by Mark Haddon (Y)

11.15.10

• Love Drugged by James Klise (YA)
• Ghost Huntress: The Reason by Marley Gibson (YA)

11.16.10

• Saturn Apartments #1 by Hisae Iwaoka (M)

11.17.10

• We Are In a Book! by Mo Willems (PB)
• Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Bleach #32 by Tite Kubo (M)

11.18.10

• Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart (YA)

11.19.10

• The Missing Ink by Karen E. Olson (A)

11.20.10

• Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley (GN)
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris (A)

11.21.10

• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger (Y)
• Vanished by Kate Brian (YA)

11.22.10

• Tell the Truth, B.B. Wolf by Judy Sierra & J. Otto Seibold (PB)

11.24.10

• No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday (A-NF)

11.26.10

• 101 Places Not to See Before You Die by Catherine Price (A-NF)

11.27.10

• Lost for Words by Alice Kuipers (YA)

11.28.10

• The Familiars by Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson (Y)

11.29.10

• Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon by Margaret Hooks (A-NF)

11.10 total: 48

13 young adult fiction; 10 graphic novels; 9 picture books; 7 adult non fiction; 3 adult fiction; 4 youth fiction; 2 manga

Scott Pilgrim rocks!

I rented Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World the other day to watch again and it just reminded me how much I love Scott Pilgrim! So...I borrowed all the books that I don't have (all but #6) from the library and I think tonight, I'm going on a Scott Pilgrim binge. I'm going to read all 6. And it will be the first time I'll have read #6. YAY! :)

Sadness...with challenges

I hate it when I don't bring enough to read with me. :( Granted, I did think that I would spend more time doing other things and I did think that the book I brought would not be such a quick read... But still!

Okay, I've got two new challenges for myself:

1) Read some of my OWN books during the winter break from school. That way I can build up paperbackswap points by getting rid of the ones that I'm not absolutely committed to keeping. This should include some of the young adult books I got b/c I had to have them to read ASAP (and still haven't read them months or even over a year later) and some of my manga that I'm still behind on (I had an earlier challenge about this).

2) Reread all the Harry Potter books before the second part of Deathly Hollows comes out (which might be in July 2011?).

Also, I am working on a book project that is related to my counseling. I'm trying to gather some young adult books with supernatural themes that deal with grief issues to provide a bibliotherapy list. I submitted a proposal to a conference to do a presentation on this, but I still haven't heard if it's been accepted. If it doesn't get accepted, I might make it into an article. :)

Library book sale!!!

I went to the Friends of the Library book sale today. We went last year and picked up a lot of books, but they were super expensive (which we didn't realize until we went to pay). This year, the prices were much cheaper--yay!

It's odd, sort of, how things happen. Both my supervisor and one of my professor suggested that I look for this book called Radical Acceptance and wouldn't you know it? There it was at the book sale for $1!

I was also able to get two Serendipity books. One of my personal book challenges is to read all the Serendipity books (well, and the Little Mr. and Little Miss books too).

I got some other books too--a couple that I think are on my to read list. And some fun looking picture books. AND a book for one of my nephews for Christmas.

And I spent less than $11. Go me! ;)

books i've read october 2010

10.2.10

• The Space Between Trees by Katie Williams (YA)
• Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers by John Harris Dunning & Nikhil Singh (GN)
• The Accidental Sorcerer by K.E. Mills (A)

10.3.10

• Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin & Lisa Brown (YA)

10.5.10

• The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar (A)

10.9.10

• This Little Piggy Went to Prada by Amy Allen & Eun-Kyung Kang (A)
• Scumble by Ingrid Law (YA)

10.10.10

• Celtic Maidens by Ceri Norman (A)
• Cum Laude by Cecily von Ziegesar (YA)
• Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species by Joel Sartore (A-NF)

10.12.10

• Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer (YA)

10.16.10

• Undead and Unfinished by MaryJanice Davidson (A)
• Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism by Alison Piepmeier (A-NF)

10.18.10

• One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau (A)
• Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously by Adrienne Martini (A-NF)

10.19.10

• The Poison Diaries by Maryrose Wood & the Duchess of Northumberland (YA)

10.22.10

• Elliot Allagash by Simon Rich (YA)

10.23.10

• How to Be a Zombie by Serenna Valentine (YA-NF)
• Double Take by Kevin Michael Connolly (A-NF)

10.25.10

• How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hill (PB)
• Art & Max by David Wiesner (PB)
• Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey (YA)

10.29.10

• Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus by R.L. LaFevers (Y)

10.10 total: 23
8 young adult fiction; 1 graphic novel; 6 adult fiction; 4 adult non fiction; 1 young adult non fiction; 2 picture books; 1 youth fiction

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

A preoccupation

The last couple times I've been to the library, I've been interested in books about words or grammar. I only got one book the time before today. But then I graded a bunch of my students' papers and I think I became obsessed with grammar. So I sought out some grammar books today when I visited the library. I have the following language/word/grammar/punctuation books to read:

• Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words by John Bemelmans Marciano
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
• Foyle's Further Philavery: A Cornucopia of Lexical Delights collected by Christopher Foyle
• Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun & Spite by June Casagrand
• Mortal Syntax: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs--Even If You're Right by June Casagrande
• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey

Looks exciting, yeah? :)

A new favorite library activity

Okay, so it's not a totally NEW favorite library activity. I just started doing it more often recently. It is: browsing the new book shelves at the library!

I did this at AADL. It started while I was working there, mostly because shelving the new books was an activity I could do when things were slow. That, of course, lead to browsing and checking out the books that looked interesting. The fun part is that I end up reading books that I may have never discovered or would have thought about picking up.

I discontinued doing so once I got to the Branigan Library here in NM. Mostly because the new books sections never looked very large. I kept at it in the children's section, but most of those books, at least at Branigan, are not really new. After some wandering in the YA section one day, I discovered the YA new book shelf. And a book that I had really wanted to read on was there on it (I don't remember which book now)!

So I started browsing the adult fiction and non fiction new book sections in the last few months. Here are some gems I discovered:

• Dogs & Devotion by The Monks of New Skete (A-NF)

A very cool book of photographs and quotes.

• The Weiser Field Guide to Vampires: Legends, Practices, and Encounters Old and New by J.M. Dixon (A-NF)
• How to Catch and Keep a Vampire: A Step-by-Step Guide to Loving the Bad and the Beautiful by Diana Laurence (A-NF)

Clearly, I was in a vampire phase. Two very different and equally fascinating books...

• How to Be a Cowboy by Jim Arndt (A-NF)

Who wouldn't want to be a cowboy?

• The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom (A-NF)

A very neat photo book that had photos of every person is the town of Oxford from the 80s and in 2000 (I think those were the dates).

• Bear-ology: Fascinating Bear Facts, Tales & Trivia by Sylvia Dolson (A-NF)

Vital information. I can now tell the difference between a brown bear and a black bear.

• Fifty Dresses That Changed the World by Design Museum (A-NF)
• Fifty Shoes That Changed the World by Design Museum (A-NF)

I'm not a big fashion person, but these were pretty interesting!

• Americanos: Latino Life in the United States by Edward James Olmos, Lea Ybarra, & Manuel Monterrey (A-NF)
• Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress by Candacy A. Taylor (A-NF)
• Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life edited by Graydon Carter & Risko (A-NF)

Books that contributed to my knowledge of Latinos, waitresses, and celebrities. Clearly, the knowledge of Latino culture was most useful to me, now that I am living in a place where Latino culture is so prevalent!

• Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace, and Courage by Katie Brown (A-NF)

This book spawned my interest in trying rock climbing. Haven't done it yet, but it's on my list!

• Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style by RuPaul (A-NF)

I love RuPaul! Would I have thought to look for this book if it wasn't on the new shelf? Probably not!

• We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion by Sep Kamvar & Jonathan Harris (A-NF)

Clearly, the best discovery so far. This book examines the use of feelings in blogs across the US. Blogs and their therapeutic benefits are one of my research interests. :)


And it won't end there. I'm still on the lookout. Some of my current check-outs are from the new book shelves and I look forward to reading them:

• The Lives They Left Behind by Penney, Stastny, & Rinzler
• White Like Me by Tim Wise
• Foyle's Further Philavery collected by Christopher Foyle
• Anonyponymous by John Bemelmans Marciano

Yay for cool new books! :)

book i've read april 2010

4.1.10

• Trouble Gum by Matthew Cordell (PB)
• Two Old Potatoes and Me by John Coy & Carolyn Fisher (PB)
• Am I a Color Too? by Heidi Cole, Nancy Vogl, & Gerald Purnell (PB)
• Crocodiles Are the Best Animals of All! by Sean Taylor & Hannah Shaw (PB)
• Dragolin by Stephen Cosgrove & Robin James (PB)
• The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Death by Denim by Linda Gerber (YA)

4.2.10

• Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life edited by Graydon Carter & Risko (A-NF)

4.3.10

• Gramp-Lop by Stephen Cosgrove & Robin James (PB)

4.5.10

• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (YA)

4.9.10

• Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon (Y)

4.10.10

• Meanwhile by Jason Shiga (GN)
• Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom by Eric Wight (Y)
• Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 by Eric Wight (Y)
• Heist Society by Ally Carter (YA)

4.11.10

• Crush by Carrie Mac (YA)

4.13.10

• We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion by Sep Kamvar & Jonathan Harris (A-NF)

4.14.10

• Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style by RuPaul (A-NF)
• How to Be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell (Y)

4.15.10

• Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy (A)

4.17.10

• Goddess Boot Camp by Tera Lynn Childs (YA)

4.18.10

• All in the Family!: A Look-It-Up Guide to the In-Laws, Outlaws, and Offspring of Mythology by Steven Otfinoski (Y-NF)

4.19.10

• Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn (YA)
• Scandal by Kate Brian (YA)

4.23.10

• The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Stolen by Celia Thomson (YA)

4.24.10

• Bleach #30 by Tite Kubo (M)
• Need by Carrie Jones (YA)
• Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell (GN)

4.29.10

• Undead Much? by Stacey Jay (YA)

4.30.10

• Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur (Y)

04.10 total: 30

7 picture books; 10 young adult fiction; 3 adult non fiction; 5 youth fiction; 2 graphic novels; 1 adult fiction; 1 youth non fiction; 1 manga

books i've read march 2010

3.2.10

• Zombie-Loan #8 by Peach-Pit (M)
• Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder (A)

3.3.10

• The ACME Catalog: Quality Is Our #1 Dream by Charles Carney & Scott Grass (A-NF)
• Young Zeus by G. Brian Karas (PB)

3.4.10

• Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace, and Courage by Katie Brown (A-NF)
• Skin Deep by Mark Del Franco (A)

3.5.10

• Monkey High! #8 by Shouko Akira (M)

3.6.10

• Lunch Lady and the Author Visit Vendetta by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (GN)

3.8.10

• Fables: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Mark Buckingham, Tony Akins, Russ Braun, Andrew Pepoy, & Jose Marzan Jr. (GN)
• Rosario + Vampire #10 by Akihisa Ikeda (M)

3.9.10

• Nothing by Janne Teller (YA)
• How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell (Y)
• How to Be a Vampire by Amy Gray (YA-NF)

3.11.10

• Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting & David Wiesner (PB)
• Cactus Poems by Frank Asch & Ted Levin (PB)
• This Is the Dream by Diane Z. Shore, Jessica Alexander, & James Ransome (PB)
• The Underwear Salesman and Other Jobs for Better or Verse by J. Patrick Lewis & Serge Bloch (PB)
• The Story of Honk-Honk-Ashoo & Swella-Bow-Wow by Ralph Cosentino (PB)
• Otis by Loren Long (PB)

3.13.10

• Sticky Burr: The Prickly Peril by John Lechner (GN)

3.14.10

• Bizenghast #6 by M. Alice LeGrow (M)
• Ambition by Kate Brian (YA)

3.15.10

• The Brimstone Journals by Ron Koertge (YA)
• I Just Hope It's Lethal edited by Liz Rosenberg & Deena November (YA)

3.16.10

• The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket, Carson Ellis, & Nathaniel Stookey (PB)
• Sunday Chutney by Aaron Blabey (PB)
• Babymouse Burns Rubber by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm (GN)

3.17.10

• Buddha #8: Jetavana by Osamu Tezuka (GN)

3.18.10

• Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters (YA)

3.19.10

• Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel by Ronda Thompson (A)

3.20.10

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Werewolves by Nathan Robert Brown (A-NF)
• Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation by Gregory Maguire (A-NF)

3.21.10

• How to Speak Dragonese by Cressida Cowell (Y)
• 35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say by Maura Cullen (A-NF)

3.22.10

• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (PB)
• How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse by Cressida Cowell (Y)

3.23.10

• You Are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay (YA)

3.24.10

• Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress by Candacy A. Taylor (A-NF)

3.25.10

• Token of Darkness by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (YA)

3.27.10

• Josephine Wants to Dance by Jackie French & Bruce Whatley (PB)
• Indescribably Arabella by Jane Gilbert (PB)
• Feathers and Fools by Mem Fox & Nicholas Wilton (PB)
• Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman & Kevin Hawkes (PB)
• Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert (PB)
• In the Cards: Life by Mariah Fredericks (YA)

3.28.10

• The Mark by Jen Nadol (YA)

3.30.10

• Americanos: Latino Life in the United States by Edward James Olmos, Lea Ybarra, & Manuel Monterrey (A-NF)
• The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Fallen by Celia Thomson (YA)

03.10 total: 48

4 manga; 3 adult fiction; 7 adult non fiction; 15 picture books; 5 graphic novels; 10 young adult fiction; 3 youth fiction; 1 young adult non fiction

Found a poem!

Love it, love it, love it!! :)

nobody but you
by Charles Bukowski

nobody can save you but
yourself.
you will be put again and again
into nearly impossible
situations.
they will attempt again and again
through subterfuge, guise and
force
to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly
inside.

nobody can save you but
yourself
and it will be easy enough to fail
so very easily
but don't, don't, don't.
just watch them.
listen to them.
do you want to be like that?
a faceless, mindless, heartless
being?
do you want to experience
death before death?

nobody can save you but
yourself
and you're worth saving.
it's a war not easily won
but if anything is worth winning then
this is it.

think about it.
think about saving your self.
your spiritual self.
your gut self.
your singing magical self and
your beautiful self.
save it.
don't join the dead-in-spirit.

maintain your self
with humor and grace
and finally
if necessary
wager your life as you struggle,
damn the odds, damn
the price.

only you can save your
self.

do it! do it!

then you'll know exactly what
I am talking about.

For my Papa

Dear Papa,

I found a book that I think you would have really enjoyed. I remember how much you loved Wile E. Coyote from the Loony Tunes cartoons. We used to watch them together when I was little and you and Grammie would babysit me.

I found The ACME Catalog! It shows, in full color with lots of fun descriptions, many of the purchases that Wile E. Coyote made in the cartoons! It was so much fun. My favorite was the bat costume. Do you remember that episode?

I wish that you were still alive so that I could have shared it with you. I think you would have laughed quite a bit. But, I am glad that I was able to enjoy it and think fondly of you. I miss you very much.

Wherever you might be, if you have access to books (and I hope you do), please see if you can find it. Read it and think of your favorite granddaughter.

Love always,
Dawn

books i've read february 2010

2.2.10

• Death by Bikini by Linda Gerber (YA)

2.3.10

• Polo and Lily by Regis Faller (PB)
• Polo and the Magic Flute by Regis Faller (PB)
• Fifty Shoes That Changed the World by Design Museum (A-NF)
• A Shadow Falls by Nick Brandt (A-NF)
• Cat's Eye Corner by Terry Griggs (Y)

2.4.10

• Fifty Dresses That Changed the World by Design Museum (A-NF)

2.5.10

• Pride by Rachel Vincent (A)

2.6.10

• Snake and Lizard by Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop (Y)
• Orange by Benjamin (GN)
• Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend and the Rose and the Nightingale by Oscar Wilde & P. Craig Russell (GN)
• American Virgin: Wet by Steven T. Seagle, Becky Cloonan, & Jim Rugg (GN)
• American Virgin: Going Down by Steven T. Seagle, Becky Cloonan, & Ryan Kelly (GN)
• American Virgin: Head by Steven T. Seagle, Becky Cloonan, & Jim Rugg (GN)

2.8.10

• Death by Latte by Linda Gerber (YA)
• American Virgin: Around the World by Steven T. Seagle, Becky Cloonan, Ryan Kelly, & Jim Rugg (GN)

2.9.10

• Bear-ology: Fascinating Bear Facts, Tales & Trivia by Sylvia Dolson (A-NF)

2.10.10

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

2.11.10

• The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear by David Bruins & Hilary Leung (PB)
• Panda & Polar Bear by Matthew J. Baek (PB)
• The Marvelous Misadventures of...Fun-Boy by Ralph Cosentino (PB)
• Buddha #2: The Four Encounters by Osamu Tezuka (GN)
• Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself by Eileen Spinelli & Jerry Spinelli (YA-NF)

2.12.10

• Gone Is Gone or the Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework by Wanda Gag (Y)
• The Festival of Bones / El Festival de las Calaveras by Luis San Vincente (PB)
• Love Is a Special Way of Feeling by Joan Walsh Anglund (PB)
• Hawk, I'm Your Brother by Byrd Baylor & Peter Parnall (PB)
• Extra! Extra! Fairy-Tale News from Hidden Forest by Alma Flor Ada & Leslie Tryon (PB)
• Rabbit Goes to Kansas by Deborah L. Duvall & Murv Jacob (PB)
• Rabbit and the Fingerbone Necklace by Deborah L. Duvall & Murv Jacob (PB)

2.13.10

• Famous Last Words: Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes, and Exclamations Upon Expiration edited by Ray Robinson (A-NF)
• The Silver Door by Terry Griggs (Y)
  

2.14.10

• The Wild Things by Dave Eggers (A)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney (Y)

2.15.10

• Buddha #3: Devadatta by Osamu Tezuka (GN)

2.16.10

• The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts: Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights, and Other Hauntings of History and Legend by Raymond Buckland (A-NF)

2.17.10

• School of Fear by Ditty Daneshvari (Y)
• Walter: The Story of a Rat by Barbara Wersba & Donna Diamond (Y)

2.18.10

• Buddha #4: The Forest of Uruvela by Osamu Tezuka (GN)

2.19.10

• Buddha #5: Deer Park by Osamu Tezuka (GN)

2.20.10

• Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco (A)
• The Vampire Hunter's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Paranormal by Erin Slonaker (YA-NF)
• The Witch's Handbook: A Field Guide to Magic by Rachel Dickinson (YA-NF)

2.21.10

• Buddha #6: Ananda by Osamu Tezuka (GN)
• Keeping It Real by Justina Robson (A)

2.23.10

• Wink: The Ninja Who Wanted to Be Noticed by J.C. Phillips (PB)
• The Library Dragon by Carmen Agra Deedy & Michael P. White (PB)
• The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom (A-NF)
• Rosario + Vampire #9 by Akihisa Ikeda (M)

2.25.10

• Buddha #7: Prince Ajatasattu by Osamu Tezuka (GN)
• Sticks and Stones by Beth Goobie (YA)
• Fatal Charm by Linda Joy Singleton (YA)

2.28.10

• Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (Maybe) by Kimberly Pauley (YA)

02.10 total: 53

6 young adult fiction; 13 picture books; 7 adult non fiction; 7 youth fiction; 4 adult fiction; 12 graphic novels; 3 young adult non fiction; 1 manga

books i've read january 2010

1.1.10

• Revealers by Amanda Marrone (YA)
• Bloggrls: sistrsic92 (Meg) by Cheryl Dellasega (YA)

1.3.10

• The School for Dangerous Girls by Eliot Schrefer (YA)

1.4.10

• Grimspace by Ann Aguirre (A)

1.5.10

• Dead Girl Dancing by Linda Joy Singleton (YA)

1.6.10

• Princess Ai #2 by Misaho Kujiradou, Courtney Love, & D.J. Milky (M)
• Savvy by Ingrid Law (Y)
• Mercy Thompson: Homecoming by Patricia Biggs, David Lawrence, Francis Tsai, & Amelia Woo (GN)
• Princess Ai: Rumors from the Other Side by Courtney Love, D.J. Milky & edited by Rob Tokar, Rie Shiramizu, & Troy Lewter (M)
• Nemi by Lise Myhre (GN)
• Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings by Kerry Miller (A-NF)

1.7.10

• Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines (YA)
• Love the One You're With by Annabelle Vestry (YA)

1.8.10

• Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist: Flight of the Phoenix by R.L. LaFevers & Kelly Murphy (Y)
• Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn by Sarah Miller (YA)

1.9.10

• I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure edited by Rachel Fershleiser & Larry Smith (A-NF)
• Dogs & Devotion by The Monks of New Skete (A-NF)
• The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack by Nicholas Gurewitch & the Perry Bible Fellowship (GN)

1.10.10

• Mail #1 by Housai Yamazaki (M)
• Devious by Cecily von Zeigesar (YA)

1.11.10

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, & Kevin Cornell (GN)
• Tokyo Mew Mew #2 by Mia Ikumi & Reiko Yoshida (M)
• Untamed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (YA)

1.12.10

• Royal Blood by Ellen Schreiber (YA)
• PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God edited by Frank Warren (A-NF)
• Mail #2 by Housai Yamazaki (M)
• Tokyo Mew Mew #3 by Mia Ikumi & Reiko Yoshida (M)
• Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas (YA)

1.13.10

• Never After by Laurell K. Hamilton, Yasmine Galenorn, Marjorie M. Liu, & Sharon Shinn (A)
• 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know by Russ Kick (A-NF)
• Buddha #1 by Osami Tezuka (GN)

1.14.10

• Miss Smith and the Haunted Library by Michael Garland (PB)
• Polo and the Dragon by Regis Faller (PB)
• Red Handed by Gena Showalter (YA)

1.15.10

• Embrace the Grim Reaper by Judy Clemens (A)
  

1.17.10

• Pretty Dead by Francesca Lia Block (YA)
• Hunted by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (YA)

1.18.10

• The Cult of Thinness by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (A-NF)

1.19.10

• ghostgirl: Homecoming by Tonya Hurley (YA)

1.20.10

• The Weiser Field Guide to Vampires: Legends, Practices, and Encounters Old and New by J.M. Dixon (A-NF)

1.21.10

• Blacklisted by Gena Showalter (YA)
• Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw (GN)
• Jessica Farm #1 by Josh Simmons (GN)
• House by Josh Simmons (GN)
• Skippyjon Jones...Lost in Spice by Judy Schachner (PB)

1.22.10

• How to Be a Cowboy by Jim Arndt (A-NF)
• Bizarre Superstitions: The World's Wackiest Proverbs, Rituals, and Beliefs by Christopher Cooper (A-NF)
• Isis by Douglas Clegg (A)

1.23.10

• Vamped by Lucienne Diver (YA)

1.24.10

• Polo and the Magician! by Regis Faller (PB)

1.26.10

• The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz (YA)

1.27.10

• How to Catch and Keep a Vampire: A Step-by-Step Guide to Loving the Bad and the Beautiful by Diana Laurence (A-NF)

1.28.10

• GoldenGirl by Micol Ostow (YA)

1.29.10

• A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na (PB)
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz (A-NF)

1.30.10

• Second Skin by Jessica Wollman (YA)

1.31.10

• Dead Girl in Love by Linda Joy Singleton (YA)

01.10 total: 57

21 young adult fiction; 4 adult fiction; 6 manga; 2 youth fiction; 8 graphic novels; 11 adult non fiction; 5 picture books

total books read in 2009!

2009 total: 655

174 picture books
145 manga
136 young adult fiction
54 graphic novels
52 youth fiction
44 adult non fiction
33 adult fiction
16 youth non fiction
1 young adult non fiction

Not quite as prolific this year. I'm going to blame that on school. :) My best month was April with 91 books and the worst was October with 26. Let's hope I can beat 655 for 2010! ;)

For comparison, I present 2008, 2007, & 2006! 2007 & 2008 were good years--and clearly, you can see I had no social life. :)

2008 total: 1151
380 manga
233 graphic novels
204 picture books
131 young adult fiction
62 youth fiction
47 adult non fiction
42 comics
31 adult fiction
18 youth non ficiton
3 young adult non fiction

2007 total: 1118
433 manga
269 picture books
158 graphic novels
79 young adult fiction
68 adult non fiction
60 youth fiction
38 adult fiction
10 youth non fiction
2 young adult non fiction
1 zine

2006 total: 263
85 graphic novels
84 manga
34 adult fiction
20 young adult fiction
18 youth fiction
11 picture books
10 adult non fiction

Books from Michigan

By the way, I did find that book, Marked. It was not in a black hole. It was in a place I didn't look because I was SURE that I hadn't even stopped there the night I lost it (i.e., the couch in my parents' basement). My dad found it. :) And I finished the book while I was in Michigan.

A funny library story from while I was in Michigan visiting family. The Grand Haven library, the Loutit District Library has recently been rebuilt. I hadn't been in the new library until I visited this time. A friend of my parents' works there. So, one day, when my dad was home from work, we went to the library after lunch. We wanted to see our friend and my dad hadn't seen the new library.

By the way, the library is beautiful! I wish I lived in Grand Haven again so I could go there all the time. :)

Our friend wasn't back from lunch yet, so I made my dad wander with me. And of course, I found some interesting books I wanted to read! I asked my dad if he had a library card and he said no. So I asked him to go get one so I could get some books out! I had read through nearly all of the books I had brought with me. And I found some really awesome doggie art type books (These Were Our Dogs and Lost). My dad, who is the awesomest, went and got a library card. :) Isn't that funny?

So, that was my Michigan vacation. Well, that and the three days I spent in airports because my flights kept getting delayed. I read a lot.

Happy New Year, everyone!

books i've read december 2009

12.1.09

• The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service #9 by Eiji Otsuka & Housui Yamazaki (M)
• Cy-Believers #1 by Shioko Mizuki (M)

12.3.09

• Huge by Sasha Paley (YA)
• The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo (Y)
• Up All Night by Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Patricia McCormick, Sarah Weeks, & Gene Luen Yang (YA)

12.4.09

• Zoobreak by Gordon Korman (Y)
• Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter (YA)

12.5.09

• Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them by Todd Harris Goldman (A-NF)
• How to Take Over teh Wurld: A Lolcat Guide 2 Winning by Professor Happycat & icanhascheezburger.com (A-NF)
• Bindi Babes by Narinder Dhami (Y)

12.7.09

• Blue Moon by Alyson Noel (YA)

12.8.09

• I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child (PB)
• Which Witch's Wand Works? by Poly Bernatene (PB)
• Little Oink by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Jen Corace (PB)
• Chicken Dance by Tammi Sauer & Dan Santat (PB)

12.9.09

• Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now by Gordon Livingston (A-NF)

12.13.09

• The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading by Charity Tahmaseb & Darcy Vance (YA)

12.16.09

• Suspicion by Kate Brian (YA)

12.17.09

• Political Issues in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series edited by Dedria Bryfonski (A-NF)

12.18.09

• Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World by Ian Phillips (A-NF)
• These Were Our Dogs by Libby Hall (A-NF)
• Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (YA)

12.19.09

• Alibi Junior High by Greg Logsted (Y)
• Bleach #29 by Tite Kubo (M)
• X-Men Misfits #1 by Raina Telgemeier, Dave Roman, & Anzu (M)
• Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe (YA)

12.20.09

• The Resilient Clinician by Robert J. Wicks (A-NF)

12.22.09

• Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris (A)

12.23.09

• The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (YA)

12.24.09

• Betrayed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (YA)
• Devoured by Amanda Marrone (YA)
• The Wallflower #21 by Tomoko Hayakawa (M)

12.25.09

• How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity edited by Michael Cart (YA)

12.28.09

• I Can Has Cheezburger?: A Lolcat Colleckshun by Professor Happycat & icanhascheezburger.com (A-NF)
• Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong by Jen Yates (A-NF)

12.29.09

• Princess Hyacinth (the Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) by Florence Parry Heide & Lane Smith (PB)
• Wicked: Witch & Curse by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie (YA)

12.30.09

• Spirits, Fairies, and Merpeople: Native Stories of Other Worlds by C.J. Taylor (Y)
• Random House Treasury of Favorite Love Poems, 2nd Ed. revised by Natalia Sucre (A-NF)
• Princess Ai #1 by Misaho Kujiradou, Courtney Love, & D.J. Milky (M)

12.31.09

• The Center of the Universe: Yep, That Would Be Me by Anita Liberty (YA)
• Tokyo Mew Mew #1 by Mia Ikumi & Reiko Yoshida (M)

12.09 total: 42

7 manga; 14 young adult fiction; 5 youth; 10 adult non fiction; 5 picture books; 1 adult fiction