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Peace Out, 2013.
À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for April.
Bought:
- The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories, by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Bratton and Brenna Yovanoff
- The River of No Return, by Bee Ridgeway
- The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley
- Paper Valentine, by Brenna Yovanoff
- Blood Magic, by Tessa Gratton
Read:
- The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories, by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Bratton and Brenna Yovanoff
- The River of No Return, by Bee Ridgeway
- The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley
ACK. So much unallowed book buying.
À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for March.
Bought:
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell
- Tenth of December, by George Saunders
- Suspect, by Robert Crais (iphone/Kindle)*
- Etiquette & Espionage, by Gail Carriger (iphone/Kindle)*
Read:
- The Order of Odd Fish, by James Kennedy (gift from the author)
- Suspect, by Robert Crais (iphone/Kindle)
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry (iphone/Kindle)
- Choice Words, by Peter H. Johnston
- Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (iphone/Kindle)
- Sarah, Plain & Tall, by Patricia McLachlan (borrowed from classroom library)
- Big Jack, by J.D. Robb (borrowed from laundry room)
*Oops, went over my two-book limit! I blame spring break!
Another day turning metal into money.
I turned in $158.90 to Coinstar today (getting back $143.33) and the following were rejected:
- One Canadian quarter.
- One Canadian dime.
- Three perfectly good U.S. dimes.
- Three perfectly good U.S. pennies.
- One paperclip.
- One remnant of a candy bar wrapper.
Those Canadians, always leaving their money in my house! Heh.
À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for February.
Bought:
- A Memory of Light, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (FREE with credit card bonus points!)
Read:
- Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein
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.
À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for December.
Bought:
- Thrall, by Natasha Trethewey
- Morning Glories, Vol 1: For a Better Future, by Nick Spencer (12/2) (graphic novel)
- Revival Vol 1: You’re Among Friends, by Tim Seeley (graphic novel)
Read:
- Enclave, by Ann Aguirre (reread)
- Mercy Thompson: Homecoming, by Patricia Briggs (graphic novel)
- Morning Glories, Vol 1: For a Better Future, by Nick Spencer (graphic novel)
- Revival Vol 1: You’re Among Friends, by Tim Seeley (graphic novel)
- Outpost, by Ann Aguirre
- Thrall, by Natasha Trethewey (poetry)
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green
- The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher (reread)
- Sleeper: Season One, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (graphic novel)
- Paper Towns, by John Green
- Fox Tracks, by Rita Mae Brown
- The Fighting Man, by Gerald Seymour
- If I Lie, by Corrine Jackson
- Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
A good month for reading…being that I had the last two weeks off work. 🙂 YAY FREE TIME.
À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for September.
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.
À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for May.
Bought:*
- The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan
- Divergent, by Veronica Roth (b/c the first time I read it was via electronic loaner and I wanted my own copy!)
- Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
- Fair Game (Alpha & Omega #3), by Patricia Briggs (iphone/kindle)
- Arcadia, by Lauren Groff
- Shelf Discovery; The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, by Lizzie Skurnick
Read:
- The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
- Divergent, by Veronica Roth (reread)
- Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
- Dead Iron, the Age of Steam, by Devon Monk
- Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater (reread)
- Linger, by Maggie Stiefvater (reread)
- Forever, by Maggie Stiefvater
- The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan
- Gregor the Overlander, by Suzanne Collins (borrowed from the classroom)
- Icefall, by Matthew J. Kirby
- Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli (borrowed from the classroom)
- Fair Game (Alpha & Omega #3), by Patricia Briggs (kindle/iphone)
- The River Between Us, by Richard Peck (borrowed from professor)
- Over Sea, Under Stone, by Susan Cooper (borrowed from the classroom)
- City of the Beasts, by Isabel Allende (borrowed from the classroom)
*WAY too many books for a girl with no job all year, I know. GAAAH. I mean, I was working this month but given I’ve only worked two other weeks THIS YEAR before this month of teaching… Yeah. But I’m just so lonely and miserable, it’s really hard to deny myself books TOO.
À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for April.
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.