$250 Barnes & Noble gift card!

I participated in a program at my university and my compensation was a $250 Barnes & Noble gift card. I'm SUPER EXCITED about it! Oh, what can I buy, what can I buy? *laughs*

I got it today and went to drop off my application at B&N after my meetings. I, of course, had to get something. So I got the next two books in the Jane True series by Nicole Peeler. YAY!!

I think I'm kind of a geek to be this excited about a gift card... *wanders off to dream about what to buy*

I think I need this shirt...

Love it!!!

Bibliophibian Shirt

It says:

You've got too many books. They crowd the shelves two or three deep, sideways or stacked any way they'll fit; they pile on tables waiting to be read, re-read, or simply kept forever. It's gotten to the point where they've started to multiply when you're not watching -- there's definitely more today than yesterday. And it'll keep on like this, until there's nothing at all left but books, books, and more books. How glorious.

Others don't understand, but you -- you breathe the stuff. You inhale paper and exhale ink; you live between pages, and your habitat is the written word. For you are a bibliophibian.

books i've read march 2011

3.6.11

• Changing the World: All-New Tales of Valdemar edited by Mercedes Lackey (A)
• Geomancy for Beginners: Simple Techniques for Earth Divination by Richard Webster (A-NF)

3.8.11

• The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming (Y)

3.14.11

• The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore (YA)

3.15.11

• Death Benefits by Sarah N. Harvey (YA)

3.16.11

• Brains: A Zombie Memoir by Robin Becker (A)
• Other Goose: Re-Nursuried!! and Re-Rhymed!! Childrens Classics by J. Otto Seibold (PB)
• Horse, Flower, Bird by Kate Bernheimer (A)
• Knights of the Lunch Table: The Dodgeball Chronicles by Frank Commuso (Y)
• Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker (A-NF)

3.17.11

• Ribbit Rabbit by Candace Ryan & Mike Lowery (PB)
• Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes (PB)
• King Puck by Michael Garland (PB)
• Lucky Tucker by Leslie McGuirk (PB)
• Chick 'n' Pug by Jennifer Sattler (PB)
• Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld (PB)
• Say Hello to Zorro! by Carter Goodrich (PB)
• You Are Not Alone by Samantha Schutz (YA)

3.18.11

• True Prep by Lisa Birnbach & Chip Kidd (A-NF)

3.21.11

• Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (YA)

3.23.11

• Season of Secrets by Sally Nicholls (Y)
• Jack of Fables: The Big Book of War by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Russ Braun, Jose Marzan, Jr., & Dan Green (GN)

3.24.11

• Where's Walrus? by Stephen Savage (PB)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney (Y)
• Miami Beach Deco by Steven Brooke (A-NF)

3.25.11

• The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou (A-NF)

3.26.11

• Notes from a Totally Lame Vampire by Tim Collins & Andrew Pinder (YA)
• Dare...to Try Bisexuality by Pierre des Esseintes (A-NF)

3.27.11

• The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming (Y)
• Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, & Mark Pennington (GN)
• Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, & Dave McKean (GN)
• Jack of Fables: The New Adventures of Jack and Jack by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Chris Roberson, Russ Braun, Tony Akins, Jose Marzan, Jr., & Andrew Pepoy (GN)

3.28.11

• 101 Things I Learned in Film School by Neil Landau & Matthew Frederick (A-NF)
• Jack of Fables: The Fulminate Blade by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Jim Fern, Andrew Pepoy, & Joe Rubinstein (GN)
• Chalk by Bill Thomson (PB)
• What Elephant? by Genevieve Cote (PB)
• Greedy Apostrophe: A Cautionary Tale by Jan Carr & Ethan Long (PB)
• The Black Book of Color by Menena Cottin & Rosana Faria (PB)
• LaRue Across America: Postcards from the Vacation by Mark Teague (PB)
• A Home for Mr. Easter by Brooke A. Allen (GN)

3.29.11

• Arata the Legend #1 by Yuu Watase (M)

3.30.11

• Vesper by Jeff Sampson (YA)

3.31.11

• Fables: Witches by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, David Lapham, Jim Fern, Andrew Pepoy, & Craig Hamilton (GN)
• Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (YA)

03.11 total: 44

3 adult fiction; 7 adult non fiction; 5 youth fiction; 7 young adult fiction; 14 picture books; 7 graphic novels; 1 manga