Librarianship and publishing. . .maybe I should be reading. I’m going to keep track of all the books I read this summer — and beyond.

Currently reading:

• The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance, Book 1: Candle Man (Davis)

Read:

• Alive in Necropolis (Dorst) – 10.9.09
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Ryan) – 9.09
• The Day of the Pelican (Paterson) – 9.09
• Ash (Lo) – 9.18.2009
• Once a Witch (MacCullough) – 9.15.09
• Leaving the Bellweathers (Venuti) – 9.9.09
• Viola in Reel Life – 9.7.09
• Breathless – 8.30.09
• Another Faust – 8.26.09
• Alphas (Harrison) – 8.19.09
• Shiver (Stiefvater)
• Leviathan (Westerfeld) – 8.7.2009
• The Magician’s Elephant (DiCamillo) – 7.27.2009
• Troy High (Norris) – 7.25.2009
• Graceling (Cashore) – 7.21.2009
• Catching Fire – 7.16.2009
• Marcelo in the Real World (Stock) – 7.14.2009
• The Lightning Thief  (Riordan) – 7.7.2009
• life on the refrigerator door (Kuipers) – 6.26.2009
• Story Sisters (Hoffman) – 6.25.2009
• Hate List (Brown) – 6.2009
• Ghostgirl Homecoming (Hurley) – 6.2009
• Ghostgirl (Hurley) – 5.2009
• Wintergirls (Anderson) – 5.2009
• Identity (Hopkins) – 4.2009
• Savvy (Law) – 3.11.09
• Werewolves in Their Youth (Chabon) – 2.28.09
• The Day I Killed James (Hyde) – 2.26.09
• Living Dead Girl (Bloom) – 2.09
• Safe (Shaw) – 2.09
• What I Saw and How I Lied (Blundell) – 1.5.09
• Compound (Bodeen) – 12.27.08
• Love Story (Segal) – 12.22.08
• Life Sucks (Abel, Soria, Pleece) – 12.20.08
  
• Saving Zoe (Noel) – 12.17.08
  
• Poison Ink (Golden) – 12.9.08
• Unwind (Shusterman) – 12.5.08
• Nodame Cantabile, vol 1 – 12.2.08
• Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (Cameron) – 11.13.08
• The Girls (Koss) – 11.16.08
• City of Ember (Duprau) – 11.9.08, audio
• Speak (Halse Anderson) – putting off until rtn to ann arbor – working on a pile of books that i need to decide whether to give away or keep after reading! – 10.28.08
• Pictures of Hollis Woods (Giff) – 10.15.08
• Sweetheart (Zarr) – 10.10.08
• Jeremy Finkand the Meaning of Life (Mass) – 10.6.08
• Tweak (Sheff) – 9.24.08 (will probably also have to read his father’s take Beautiful Boy after – complete lie – too depressing and infuriating to read more of!)
• Impossible (Werlin) – 9.8.08 (in the wee hours . . .I just couldn’t put it down)
• Spud (van de Ruit) – 9.7.08 – YASL August Book Club (such a boy book! and i can’t believe i’ve pretty much stopped reading – YIKES!!!)
• The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives Book 1 (Buckley)
• Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy (Meyer, audio) – 8.15.08
• Shift (Agell, work) – 8.12.08
• Breathe My Name (Nelson) – 8.10.08
• The Night Tourist (Marsh) – 8.9.08
• Breaking Dawn (Meyers) – yes, i’m weak and went to the bookstore to read it! – 8.9.08 – BAD!
• Guardian (Lester) – 8.8.08
• A Season of Eden (Warwick) – 8.7.08
• Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe) – 8.1.08
• The Wright Three (Baillett) – 7.31.08
• *Diary of a Chav (Dent) – 7.29.08 — hilarious!
• Book 1: Kin – The Good Neighbors (Black) – 7.27.08
• Lolita (Nabokov, finally gave in & bought a copy!) – 7.27.08, finally!!!
• Thanksgiving: The True Story (Colman, work) – 7.22.08
• Lock and Key (Dessen) – 7.17.08
• *13 Reasons Why (Asher) – 7.11.08
• Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls (Jonell, work) – 7.9.08**
• Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat (Jonell, work) – 7.8.08
• Atonement (McEwan) – 7.7.08
• Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Lockhart) – 7.4.08
• Paper Towns (Green) – 7.3.08
• Aurelie: A Faerie Tale (Tomlinson, work) – 7.2.08**
• Testimony (Shreve) – 6.30.08
• Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (Smith & Fershleiser) – 6.30.08
• *Angel Girl (Friedman) – 6.28.08 I was crying in their booth at ALA, an AMAZING picture book!
• Debbie Harry Sings in French (Brothers, work) – 6.26.08
• I am the Cheese (Cormier) – 6.18.08
• Piper Reed The Great Gypsy (Holt, work) – 6.8.08
• Masterpiece (Broach, work) – 6.8.08 v. adorable!
• Before John Was a Jazz Giant (Weatherford, work) – 6.5.08**
• No Choirboy (Kuklin, work) – 6.4.08 **
• Evolution, Me, & Other Freaks of Nature (Brande) – 6.2.08
• *The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Birdsall) – 5.30.08
• Wild Boars Cook (Rosoff, work) – 5.28.08
• Ice Bears (Guiberson, work) – 5.28.08
• Lincoln and Douglass An American Friendship (Giovanni, work) – 5.28.08
• The Peace Bell (Preus, work) – 5.28.08
• Double Trouble Groundhog Day (Roberts, work) – 5.28.08
• When I Grow Up (Loy, work) – 5.28.08
• Footprints in the Snow (Matsuoka, work) – 5.28.08
• Worry Tree (Musgrave, work) – 5.27.08**
• *The Third Angel (Hoffman) – 5.26.08 (Her books are so amazing!)
• Mammoth Academy (Layton, work) – 5.23.08**
• The Veterans Day Visitor (Catalanotto & Schembri, work) – 5.22.08**
• Maybelle Goes to Tea (Speck, work) – 5.22.08″”
• Piper Reed, Navy Brat (Holt, work) – 5.22.08
• *Before I Die (Downham) – 5.22.08 WOW! Everyone should read this book.
• *Itch (Kwasney, work) – 5.19.08
• Big Brown Bat (Chrustowski, work) – 5.16.08
• Ancient Egypt (Strachan, work) – 5.16.08
• Abraham Lincoln Comes Home (Burleigh, work) – 5.16.08**
• Vera’s Halloween (Rosenberry, work) – 5.16.08
• *Katie Loves the Kittens (Himmelman, work) – 5.16.08 (and I don’t like dogs!)
• Larry and the Meaning of Life (Tashjian, work) – 5.15.08**
• Vote for Larry (Tashjian) – 5.14.08
• Giant John (Lobel – work) – 5.14.08
• The Scrambled States of America Talent Show (Keller – work) – 5.13.08
• Ralph’s World Rocks (Covert – work) – 5.13.08
• Greater Estimation (Goldstone – work) – 5.13.08
• *In the Night Garden (Joosse – work) – 5/13/08
• Doctor Meow’s Big Emergency (Lloyd – work) – 5.13.08
• Five Little Firefighters (Graham – work) – 5.13.08
• Corkscrew Counts (Napoli – work) – 5.13.08
• Kings and Queens of the Bible (Hoffman – work; scanned) – 5.13.08
• Shrimp (Cohn) – 5.12.08
• Gingerbread (Cohn) – 5.11.08

* favorites

**wrote about for Henry Holt (press release, round-up, or some sort of letter)