books i've read january 2011

1.1.11

• Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (YA)
• The Dog Who Healed a Family: And Other True Animal Stories That Warm the Heart & Touch the Soul by Jo Coudert (A-NF)

1.2.11

• Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (A)
• The Beginner's Guide to Living by Lia Hills (YA)
• Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts (A)

1.3.11

• It's a Boy--It's a Girl by Kirsten Dietz (A-NF)
• A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter by Peter Straub (A)

1.4.11

• Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (A)

1.5.11

• Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris (A)
• Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (A)

1.6.11

• Dark Fire by Chris D'Lacey (YA)
• Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris (A)

1.7.11

• Smax by Alan Moore, Zander Cannon, & Andrew Currie (GN)
• The Three Golden Rings by Peter Sis (PB)
• Gnomes by Wil Huygen & Rien Poortvliet (A-NF)
• All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (A)

1.8.11

• Fooled You!: Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years by Elaine Pascoe (Y-NF)
• The Blood-Hungry Spleen: And Other Poems About Our Parts by Allen Wolf & Greg Clark (PB)
• The Dragons Are Singing Tonight by Jack Prelutsky & Peter Sis (PB)

1.9.11

• From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (A)

1.10.11

• Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (A)
• Dog Walks Man by John Zeaman (A-NF)
• Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (PB)
• The Train of States by Peter Sis (Y-NF)
• The OK Book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld (PB)

1.11.11

• I'm Not by Pam Smallcomb & Robert Weinstock (PB)
• Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman & Ben Cort (PB)

1.13.11

• Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris (A)

1.17.11

• Decade by Phaidon (A-NF)
• Lilliput 5357 by Stefan Czernecki (PB)
• My Zombie Valentine by Katie MacAlister, Angie Fox, Marianne Mancusi, & Lisa Cach (A)

1.19.11

• Snook Alone by Marilyn Nelson & Timothy Basil Ering (PB)

1.20.11

• The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier (GN)

1.23.11

• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (YA)

1.26.11

• Sea Glass by Maria V. Snyder (A)
• Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale by Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, & Chris Samnee (GN)
• Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible Stories by Zack Whedon, Eric Canete, Farel Dalrymple, Jim Rugg, Joelle Jones, & Scott Hepburn (GN)

1.27.11

• Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe edited by Stanley Buchthal & Bernard Comment (A-NF)
• Zombie-Loan #10 by Peach-Pit (M)
• Lunch Lady and the Bake Sale Bandit by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (GN)
• Monsters Eat Whiny Children by Bruce Eric Kaplan (PB)
• Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems (PB)
• Spaceheadz #1 by Jon Scieszka, Francesco Sedita, & Shane Prigmore (Y)

1.29.11

• How to Survive a Robot Uprising by Daniel H. Wilson (A-NF)
• Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist: The Wyverns' Treasure by R.L. LaFevers (Y)

1.30.11

• How to Defeat Your Own Clone: And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution by Kyle Kurpinski & Terry D. Johnson (A-NF)

1.31.11

• Elephants Cannot Dance! by Mo Willems (PB)
• Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems (PB)
• Out for Blood by Alyxandra Harvey (YA)

01.11 total: 49
5 young adult fiction; 8 adult non fiction; 13 adult fiction; 5 graphic novels; 13 picture books; 2 youth non fiction; 1 manga; 2 youth fiction

49 down, 451 to go (to meet my 500 books in 2011 challenge)

Reading Pagan Every Day

In one of my other tasks as the book reviewer for Pagan Edge magazine (www.paganedge.com), I challenged my readers to read Pagan Every Day with me this year. I got a bit of a late start (oops!), but I'm on task now. It's a such a cool book!

So...if anybody ever reads this blog, if you'd like to read along, please do. :)

And that's why it'll be on my "books i'm reading" list for the whole year. ;)

book summary for 2010!

2010 book total: 498

123 young adult fiction
121 picture books
100 adult non fiction
50 graphic novels
44 youth fiction
35 adult fiction
16 manga
7 young adult non fiction
2 youth non fiction

and for comparison...

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

2008 total: 1151
2007 total: 1118
2006 total: 263

What I find interesting about this year is that I read so much non fiction, particularly adult non fiction. I guess that's a result of my regular browsing of the library new book section. :)

Someday, I hope to get back over 1000 books again. I will! After school is over. :)

books i've read december 2010

12.2.10

• Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel (YA)

12.4.10

• Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck (YA)

12.8.10

• Grief Girl by Erin Vincent (YA-NF)

12.9.10

• Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride (YA)

12.12.10

• A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire (A)

12.13.10

• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (A)

12.16.10

• Pretty in Ink by Karen E. Olson (A)
• Stitches by David Small (GN)
• Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff, Benjamin Percy, & James Ponsoldt (GN)

12.17.10

• Rosalyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth! by Marie-Louise Gay (PB)
• Rick & Rack and the Great Outdoors by Ethan Long (PB)
• The Super Crazy Cat Dance by Aron Nels Steinke (PB)
• Adopt a Glurb! by Elise Gravel (PB)
• Magic Pickle by Scott Morse (GN)
• Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri & Randy DuBurke (GN)

12.18.10

• Binky to the Rescue by Ashley Spires (GN)
• Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel (GN)

12.20.10

• Meridian by Amber Kizer (YA)
• Adios, Nirvana by Conrad Wesselhoeft (YA)

12.21.10

• Magic Pickle and the Garden of Evil by Scott Morse (Y)
• Magic Pickle vs. the Egg Poacher by Scott Morse (Y)
• Magic Pickle and the Planet of the Grapes by Scott Morse (Y)

12.26.10

• Wolven by Di Toft (Y)

12.27.10

• The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (YA)
• Monster Sleepover! by Scott Beck (PB)
• Remembering Crystal by Sebastian Loth (PB)
• Little Black Crow by Chris Raschka (PB)
• Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch (GN)

12.28.10

• The Hollow by Jessica Verday (YA)
• Badass: A Hard-Earned Guide to Living Life with Style and (the Right) Attitude by Shannen Doherty (A-NF)

12.29.10

• The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter by John Gosselink (Y)
• The Unidentified by Rae Mariz (YA)

12.30.10

• The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith (YA)

12.31.10

• The Frenzy by Francesca Lia Block (YA)

12.10 total: 34
10 young adult fiction; 1 young adult non fiction; 3 adult fiction; 7 graphic novels; 7 picture books; 5 youth fiction; 1 adult non fiction

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!!