- 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
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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:
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:
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:
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)
- 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)
- How to Be a Cowboy by Jim Arndt (A-NF)
- The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein & Stephen G. Bloom (A-NF)
- Bear-ology: Fascinating Bear Facts, Tales & Trivia by Sylvia Dolson (A-NF)
- Fifty Dresses That Changed the World by Design Museum (A-NF)
- Fifty Shoes That Changed the World by Design Museum (A-NF)
- 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)
- Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace, and Courage by Katie Brown (A-NF)
- Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style by RuPaul (A-NF)
- We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion by Sep Kamvar & Jonathan Harris (A-NF)
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
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
book i've read april 2010
4.1.10
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
- 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)
- Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life edited by Graydon Carter & Risko (A-NF)
- Gramp-Lop by Stephen Cosgrove & Robin James (PB)
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (YA)
- Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon (Y)
- 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)
- Crush by Carrie Mac (YA)
- We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion by Sep Kamvar & Jonathan Harris (A-NF)
- 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)
- Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy (A)
- Goddess Boot Camp by Tera Lynn Childs (YA)
- All in the Family!: A Look-It-Up Guide to the In-Laws, Outlaws, and Offspring of Mythology by Steven Otfinoski (Y-NF)
- Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn (YA)
- Scandal by Kate Brian (YA)
- The Nine Lives of Chloe King: The Stolen by Celia Thomson (YA)
- Bleach #30 by Tite Kubo (M)
- Need by Carrie Jones (YA)
- Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell (GN)
- Undead Much? by Stacey Jay (YA)
- Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur (Y)
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
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