Books 2009 (post 1)

1. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy–Ally Carter
2. Dead Until Dark–Charlaine Harris
3. Sweethearts–Sara Zarr
4. Rise and Shine–Anna Quindlen
5. The War at Ellsmere–Faith Erin Hicks
6. Life as We Knew It–Susan Beth Pfeffer
7. The Walking Dead–Robert Kirkman
8. Don’t Judge a Girl by her Cover–Ally Carter (ARC)
9. Paper Towns–John Green
10. Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale–Holly Black
11. Jinx–Meg Cabot
12. Persepolis–Marjane Satrapi
13. Persepolis II–Marjane Satrapi
14. Pants on Fire–Meg Cabot
15. Hitman–Garth Ennis

Books read in 2008

Again, I’m not 100% sure this list is complete. I’m going to bold some of the things that were my favorites this…er, last…year:

1. Love, Stargirl–Jerry Spinelli
2. Abadazad: The Road to Inconceivable–JM DeMatteis
3. Neptune Noir–edited by Rob Thomas
4. Blood Price–Tanya Huff
5. Looking for Alaska–John Green
6. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom–Cory Doctorow
7. Young Avengers–Allan Heinberg
8. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born–Peter David and Jae Lee
9. Kimmie66–Aaron Alexovich
10. Blood Trail–Tanya Huff
11. Undisclosed unpublished manuscript–a friend
12. Living Lost–J. Wood
13. Boy Proof–Cecil Castellucci
14. First Among Sequels–Jasper Fforde
15. I’d Tell You I Love You But then I’d Have to Kill You–Ally Carter
16. Size 14 is Not Fat Either–Meg Cabot
17. Buffy Omnibus, vol. 2
18. Gifts–Ursula LeGuin
19. Duma Key–Stephen King
20. Pirates of the Retail Wasteland–Adam Selzer
21. The House on Mango Street–Sandra Cisneros
22. Daniel’s Story–Carol Matas
23. Queen of Babble in the Big City–Meg Cabot
24. Big Boned–Meg Cabot
25. Ready or Not–Meg Cabot
26. Someone Like You–Sarah Dessen
27. Lily Dale: Awakening–Wendy Corsi Staub
28. When You Are Engulfed in Flames–David Sedaris (didn’t finish)
29. Ultimates–Mark Millar
30. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian–Sherman Alexie
31. Story of a Girl–Sara Zarr
32. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched–Meg Cabot
33. Janes in Love–Cecil Castellucci
34. American Born Chinese–Gene Yang
35. Of Mice and Men–John Steinbeck
36. A Raisin in the Sun–Lorraine Hansberry
37. Teaching Outside the Box–LouAnne Johnson
38. Little Brother–Cory Doctorow
39. Teaching with Love and Logic–Jim Fay & David Funk
40. Creating Classrooms where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn–Bob Sornson Ph.D.
41. Another undisclosed, unpublished manuscript
42. Night–Elie Wiesel
43. The New York Four–Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly
44. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns–Frank Miller
45. Y The Last Man–Brian K. Vaughn
46. Dead Until Dark–Charlaine Harris

*The unpublished manuscripts that I read are also among my favorites. I cannot wait until my friend has a book out on the shelves (which will be soon! whee!) and I can talk more about her. 🙂

Stuff I’ve read

New stuff starts down around 32 or 33.

I feel like I’m missing some things, but I can’t figure out what…so here’s a possibly incomplete list of what I’ve read so far this year:

1. Love, Stargirl–Jerry Spinelli
2. Abadazad: The Road to Inconceivable–JM DeMatteis
3. Neptune Noir–edited by Rob Thomas
4. Blood Price–Tanya Huff
5. Looking for Alaska–John Green
6. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom–Cory Doctorow
7. Young Avengers
8. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
9. Kimmie66–Aaron Alexovich
10. Blood Trail–Tanya Huff
11. Undisclosed unpublished manuscript–a friend
12. Living Lost–J. Wood
13. Boy Proof–Cecil Castellucci
14. First Among Sequels–Jasper Fforde
15. I’d Tell You I Love You But then I’d Have to Kill You–Ally Carter
16. Size 14 is Not Fat Either–Meg Cabot
17. Buffy Omnibus, vol. 2
18. Gifts–Ursula LeGuin
19. Duma Key–Stephen King
20. Pirates of the Retail Wasteland–Adam Selzer
21. The House on Mango Street–Sandra Cisneros
22. Daniel’s Story–Carol Matas
23. Queen of Babble in the Big City–Meg Cabot
24. Big Boned–Meg Cabot
25. Ready or Not–Meg Cabot
26. Someone Like You–Sarah Dessen
27. Lily Dale: Awakening–Wendy Corsi Staub
28. When You Are Engulfed in Flames–David Sedaris (didn’t finish)
29. Ultimates–Mark Millar
30. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian–Sherman Alexie
31. Story of a Girl–Sara Zarr
32. Queen of Babble Gets Hitched–Meg Cabot
33. Janes in Love–Cecil Castellucci
34. American Born Chinese–Gene Yang
35. Of Mice and Men–John Steinbeck
36. A Raisin in the Sun–Lorraine Hansberry
37. Teaching Outside the Box–LouAnne Johnson
38. Little Brother–Cory Doctorow
39. Teaching with Love and Logic–Jim Fay & David Funk (currently reading)
40. Creating Classrooms where Teachers Love to Teach and Students Love to Learn–Bob Sornson Ph.D.
(currently reading)
41. Another undisclosed, unpublished manuscript

Like a present to myself

So yesterday, I got the mail when I got home from school, and as usual, there were several packages for Rand. I almost didn’t notice that one of them was addressed to me! What could it be, I wondered. I didn’t order anything.

So I opened the package, and inside it was a copy of John Scalzi‘s new book. And then I remembered…months ago, I pre-ordered the book to get in on a special deal where I would get a limited edition numbered and signed copy of the book, plus a chapbook. (How long ago did I order it? Well, it was shipped to my current address, but had my maiden name on it…so sometime between the end of May and the second week of July.)

I’m very much looking forward to reading it, just as soon as I have some free time. (hahahahaha)

😉

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Reading

I am positively overwhelmed by reading material right now.

Last week, in anticipation of the beginning of school, I ordered Teaching Outside the Box by LouAnne Johnson. (LouAnne Johnson is the teacher who wrote the book that inspired the movie Dangerous Minds.) So far, it’s fantastic.

I also received a slightly belated birthday package from Stephanie, which included Dead Until Dark, the first book in Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire series, as well as Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

I bought a few books at the Scholastic Sale that I would like to read, including an Anna Quindlen novel I was unaware of.

Rand ordered me some cool books from Canada–a series of YA novels by Sean Cullen. You may recognize Sean from Last Comic Standing.

Or, if you’re like me, you may know him as a member of Corky and the Juice Pigs.

At any rate, his humor is weird and utterly hilarious. I’m very much looking forward to the books.

On top of all the reading I’d like to do for fun, of course, I have the required school reading…among the books I’ll be teaching this year:

  • A Raisin in the Sun (familiar with, but have never read)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (yay! one of my favorites!!)
  • Lord of the Flies (read, but it was a while ago)
  • Night (read)
  • Of Mice and Men (never read. saw the movie back in college)
  • American Born Chinese (haven’t read yet, but very excited about this!)
  • Romeo and Juliet (again, yay!)
  • Julius Caesar (um…yay?)

I did my master’s project on teaching Shakespeare to high school students, and just about every scholar agrees that Julius Caesar should be ditched from the high school curriculum. Apparently no one is listening. Ah well…I’ll do my best to make it interesting, and promise not to make them memorize and recite “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears…” (which is the ONLY thing I remember about reading this play in high school. seriously.)

Hmmm…overwhelmed much? 😉 In all seriousness, though, I’m beyond excited about this job. And I’ll try my best to squeeze in some reading for pleasure among all the edumacational stuff. 😉

Well, I guess I’d better get to work!

Books read in 2008 (so far)

I’ve gone on a reading binge this past week or so–particularly this weekend. Lots of YA and chicklit. I’ve hit a point where nothing on my to-read shelf is doing it for me. Please feel free to share your recommendations!

1. Love, Stargirl–Jerry Spinelli
2. Abadazad: The Road to Inconceivable–JM DeMatteis
3. Neptune Noir–edited by Rob Thomas
4. Blood Price–Tanya Huff
5. Looking for Alaska–John Green
6. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom–Cory Doctorow
7. Young Avengers
8. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
9. Kimmie66–Aaron Alexovich
10. Blood Trail–Tanya Huff
11. A Local Habitation–Seanan McGuire
12. Living Lost–J. Wood
13. Boy Proof–Cecil Castellucci
14. First Among Sequels–Jasper Fforde
15. I’d Tell You I Love You But then I’d Have to Kill You–Ally Carter
16. Size 14 is Not Fat Either–Meg Cabot
17. Buffy Omnibus, vol. 2
18. Gifts–Ursula LeGuin
19. Duma Key–Stephen King
20. Pirates of the Retail Wasteland–Adam Selzer
21. The House on Mango Street–Sandra Cisneros
22. Daniel’s Story–Carol Matas
23. Queen of Babble in the Big City–Meg Cabot
24. Big Boned–Meg Cabot
25. Ready or Not–Meg Cabot
26. Someone Like You–Sarah Dessen
27. Lily Dale: Awakening–Wendy Corsi Staub

New posts

Yesterday was 27 days until my wedding, and there’s a post up at my wedding blog.

Miss Shortskirt put up a new post at Required Reading.

After many, many months, I updated the 27 blog. (I was reminded by my 27 days post at the wedding blog)

Enjoy! 🙂

Wah!

My copy of On Writing is inexplicably missing. It is not impossible that I let someone borrow it, but I have zero memory of doing so. I’d say “it has to be here somewhere,” but I’m fairly certain that all the books have been unpacked.

Do you have my book? :-/

Duma Key

I finally finished Duma Key this morning. Short review? I loved this book. Love.

I want to hold it and squeeze it and call it George.

Yeah, some of Stephen King’s latest work has been less than stellar…I haven’t even read Cell…but this was King at his best. Creepy and weird and sad, and ultimately completely satisfying.

Yay for good books!

It sure is Monday…

Forgive me for quoting a 15-year-old country song as my subject line. 🙂

I have to say, the weather sure didn’t help in making me want to crawl out from under the covers this morning. I’m not going to complain about the rain, because I know we need it, but ugh. Can’t we have some nice, moderate temperatures for a little while? Is that too much to ask?

The Friday night show at Nietzche’s was fun. I did take some photos, but they’re still on my camera. I’ll get around to posting them eventually. The rest of the weekend? Not much to speak about. Mostly trying to clean up/organize/pack…meanwhile, we wait for an official closing date. Apparently the seller got her lawyer out of a Cracker Jack box. (I can’t take credit for that; it was all Rand.)

Did a bit of shopping yesterday, but it was mostly a bust. Rand bought a pair of pants and a couple of t-shirts. I didn’t buy anything. I did come home and order a few things from Chadwick’s, though, for a very reasonable price. I got $25 off my order and $5 shipping. I hope it all fits! I love shopping online, but I hate having to send things back.

I’m a little more than halfway through Duma Key. I’m enjoying it quite a bit, and regret that I don’t have larger chunks of time to devote to reading. I should be *done* by now!

I’ve got some chicken marinading for dinner, and I should probably figure out what else we’re going to have with it. Hope you’re all having a happy Monday. Later!