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ACK. So much unallowed book buying.
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*Oops, went over my two-book limit! I blame spring break!
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I actually think I didn’t buy any other books in February except a couple for the classroom, which I don’t include on these lists.
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I decided I can only let myself buy two books a month thanks to the current financial straits. Therefore I have/had to wait until February to buy the final Wheel of Time book. That’s OK b/c I have very little time to read right now anyway as I’m not taking much public transit right now which is my #1 reading time. I have almost no free time even when I’m at home right now–teaching is almost a 24 hour job and then only hours I’m not either at school or working on stuff for school are when I need to be sleeping. Yeah it’s super exhausting.
*Technically I already own one of these as a stand-alone…but they just collected the first four to go with the new #5 that just came out and it was on sale at my local store for $20 with 10% off and that’s cheaper than buying a $8-$10 paperback of the three I don’t have…
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Slow month for reading. Mostly because I didn’t like the Eugenides very much so when I had reading time I didn’t necessarily use it. Also I wasn’t on public transportation almost all month which is my primary reading time.
Saga is a wonderful, adult comic that I am currently completely freaking out over. The graphic novel compilation of issues 1-6 came out in October SO GO GET IT NOW. Issue 7 comes out in November (right now). It’s SO GOOD. The story is total sci-fi fantasy gloriousness and the art is amazeballoons.
Here are a couple cool interviews about it: 1) with Brian Vaughan (creator/writer) and 2) another with Fiona Staples, the artist (the art is BREATHTAKINGLY AWESOME).
And speaking of awesome art, this version of Little Red Riding Hood, illustrated by Daniel Egnéus is also incredibly stunning. Modern, operatic, and cerebral. My students weren’t that into it, but I was blown away. (More here as well.)
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I just read Phantom Tollbooth in May–loved the wordplay. Really a LOT of fun to read as an adult. (If I read it as a child (?) I had forgotten it.)
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August was a great month of reading. Getting ready for school but full of free time.
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Too much for a girl without a job but I did buy most of it with gift cards, so…
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