Bought:

• ?? Probably a few but I did not keep track apparently.
  

Read:

• A Wanted Man, by Lee Child
  
• A Tale Dark & Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz
  
• The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
  
• Any Small Goodness, by Tony Johnston
  

Gee, what happened in September? Well I started my first official “my own classroom” teaching job (I did have a teaching job in the spring but it was a maternity leave position in someone else’s classroom. Then we teachers went on strike and I was insanely busy going to the picket line and going to rallies and talking to my coworkers and I got no reading done whatsoever. And three of the four books I did eventually manage to read in the month were ones I wanted to review for the kids from our classroom library. Yeah, it was a crazy month.

Bought:

• The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness (kindle*)
  
• Monsters of Men, by Patrick Ness (kindle*)
  
• The Ask and the Answer, by Patrick Ness (kindle*)
  
• Taken, by Robert Crais (kindle*)
  

Read:

• Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (reread)
  
• Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (reread)
  
• Mountainfit: Fjällsommar, Fjällsjälv, by Meera Lee Sethi (kickstarter project!!)
  
• Tattoo (Ice Song #2), by Kirsten Imani Kansai (library)
  
• Life: An Unexploded Diagram, by Mal Peet
  
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green & David Levithan
  

*From a day when Kindle editions of books were on super super sale. 🙂 I use the kindle app on either iPhone or iPad. Works just fine.

Bought:

• Life: An Unexploded Diagram, by Mal Peet (YA)*
  
• You Killed Wesley Payne, by Sean Beaudoin (YA)*
  
• The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic, a novel by Allan Wolf (YA)*
  
• The Castle of Llyr, by Lloyd Alexander
  

Read:

• Magic on the Hunt, by Devon Monk (library)
  
• Magic on the Line, by Devon Monk (library)
  
• The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer (borrowed)
  

Despite having nothing but time on my hands, all of that time seems to be going to crafting and busy work and almost none to reading…

*Went to an event at the Center for Teaching Through Children’s Books at National Louis introducing the Booklist award winners and favorites of the year and bought these at the book sale afterward. Not that I should have, but…

Bought:

• Awkward and Definition, The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (GN)
  
• The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel
  
• Northlanders Vol 1: Sven The Returned, by Brian Wood
  
• Northlanders Vol 2: The Cross + The Hammer
  

Read:

• Y: Last Man–Unmanned, by Brian K. Vaughn (GN)
  
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick
  
• Wonderstruck, by Brian Selznick
  
• The Trouble with Thirteen, by Betty Miles (re-read)
  
• The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin (library)
  
• Ten Birds, by Cybele Young (library)
  
• Don’t You Know There’s a War On? by Avi (borrowed from classroom)
  
• The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel
  
• Where do you think you’re going, Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz (library)
  
• Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Patterson (library)
  
• Northlanders Vol 1: Sven The Returned, by Brian Wood
  
• Northlanders Vol 2: The Cross + The Hammer
  
• Educating Esme, Diary of a Teacher’s First Year, by Esme Raji Codell (library)
  
• Feed, by M.T. Anderson
  
• The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander
  
• The Demon Trapper’s Daughter, by Jana Oliver
  
• Life as We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer (borrowed from professor)
  
• The Ocean Between Us, by Susan Wiggs (borrowed from laundry room)
  
• Honeybee, by Naomi Shihab Nye
  

My two new favorite albums that I am listening to obsessively over and over and over again are:

• Tyler Lyle “The Golden Age & The Silver Girl” — available at Bandcamp for only $6! It’s poppy and fun and pretty and some of it’s super bouncy and it has lovely lyrics that of course sound completely nonsensical when taken apart from their songs and I listen to it every morning and dance at the bus stop and get psyched up for my day!
• Empty Orchestra “One More Time, All Together Now” — You may know that I know a few people in this band. well, guess what? They are STILL awesome even though I know them! And they make great music! And you can get it for FREE just by tweeting/twittering about it and helping spread the word about them. Srsly. They describe their music as a FISTFIGHT and it doesn’t really get any better than that: Our songs are fistfights of traditions and generations and genres and tempos and hope and doubt and death and punchlines.

There you go, two awesome music recommendations for the price of less than one. Don’t say I never gave you anything!!

Bought:

• Trickster, ed. by Matt Dembicki (graphic collection)
  
• It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi (graphic novel)
  
• Choice Words, by Peter H. Johnston
  
• Stitches, by David Small (graphic novel)
  
• When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
  
• Epileptic, by David B. (graphic novel)
  
• Ben’s Trumpet, by Rachel Isadora
  
• The Enemy, by Davide Cali & Serge Bloch
  

Read:

• Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest (YA)(iphone/kindle)
  
• Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi (YA)
  
• Watchtower, by Elizabeth A. Lynn (re-read)
  
• The Dancers of Arun, by Elizabeth A. Lynn (re-read)
  
• The Northern Girl, by Elizabeth A. Lynn (re-read)
  
• Weed Flower, by Cynthia Kadohata
  
• The Enemy, by Davide Cali & Serge Bloch
  
• Maizon at Blue Hill, by Jacqueline Woodson
  
• Lockdown, by Walter Dean Myers
  
• Stitches, by David Small (graphic novel)
  
• The Getaway Car, a practical memoir about writing and life, by Ann Patchett (iphone/kindle)
  
• The Arrival, by Shaun Tan (graphic novel / wordless picture book)
  
• Fortunte’s Bones, by Marilyn Nelson (poetry)
  
• Okay for Now, by Gary Schmidt
  
• Trickster, ed. by Matt Dembicki (graphic collection)
  

Note: I did not include most of the picture books I read for my children’s and YA Lit class, although I did include fiction and graphic novels.

An iphone/kindle impulse buy.

A policewoman who is also a summoner of demons. A sexy powerful demon lord struggling to free his bonds. Some evil.

Entertaining.

Random Oscar blurbing (here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here) and two weeks of what I’ve been watching on TV. There you have it.