After the whirlwind... there are books
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daemonlunaPhew. Mad rush of kids checking out books and me signing stuff back in. And now I have forty-five minutes of quiet, because everyone else is at an assembly, and I don't have to go. (Nyah, nyah, nyah.)
(sound like a stampede of hyperactive elephants) Okay, AFTER they trip on down to the gym, then it's quiet.
I need to catch up obn blurbing what I've read lately. In the meantime, here's a list of what I've got otu from the library and haven't read yet:
Acceleration / by McNamee, Graham.
Bad girls in love / by Voigt, Cynthia.
Bad, badder, baddest / by Voigt, Cynthia.
It's not easy being bad / by Voigt, Cynthia.
(sequels to Bad Girls, upper elementary/junior high politics and scheming)
Beautiful Inez : a novel / by Schneider, Bart.
(adult fiction, and that's all I remember about this one. I know I had a reason for signing it out. Hmm.)
The blue mirror / by Koja, Kathe.
(YA drama-suspense)
Can't get there from here / by Strasser, Todd.
(YA drama, think it's about street kids. Picked it up because it's the same person who wrote that whole series of "Help! I'm Trapped in My Dog's Body" type books that enthrall ten yaer old boys.)
Day of tears : a novel in dialogue. by Lester, Julius, 1939-
(What the title says. YA, about the slave trade.)
Every boy's got one / by Cabot, Meg.
(fluffy adult (as opposed to YA) romance by the author of the Princess Diaries. Shutupshutupshutup.)
The exchange student / by Gilmore, Kate.
(YA SF)
Exploding the myths : the truth about teens and reading / by Aronson, Marc.
The fair garden and the swarm of beasts : the library and the young adult / by Edwards, Margaret Alexander, 1902-1988.
(got both of these out for course development--online resources for YA books. It's supposed to run in August, so I guess I should start, y'know, reading.)
Fleshmarket / by Morgan, Nicola, 1959-
(YA historical mystery, set in Victorian England)
Godless / by Hautman, Pete, 1952-
(YA drama, think it's about high school kids who invent their own religion)
Hardscratch Row / by Cameron, Anne, 1938-
(CanLit, by the same author as a YA book I just reviewed and loved until the end, which I hated enough to throw the book across the room.)
Hear me out : true stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia. by Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia (Youth group)
(random non-fiction)
The key to the Golden Firebird : [a novel] / by Johnson, Maureen, 1973-
(YA novel about a family dealing with the death of the father. Same author as The Bermudez Triangle, which was a really good GLBT YA novel--read it if you like Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants.)
An order of Amelie, hold the fries / by Schindler, Nina.
(YA epistolary novel)
The radioactive boy scout : the true story of a boy and his backyard nuclear reactor / by Silverstein, Ken.
(biography, on the ALA's Best Books for YAs last year, about a teenager who built a nuclear reactor in the backyard. I'm halfway through this one right now.)
Ruby Tuesday / by Kogler, Jennifer Anne.
(YA fiction, teenaeg girl, the Dodgers, and gambling in Las Vegas. They all fit together somehow. I'll let you know how after I read it.)
Shelf life : stories by the book / by Paulsen, Gary.
(YA short story collection)
Singing the Dogstar blues / by Goodman, Alison.
(YA SF)
The witch's boy / by Gruber, Michael.
(YA fantasy)
(Does not include the twenty-nine books I've got on hold, or the twenty-three others I've got queued in a not-yet-on-hold list. Does not include the perpetual stack of paperbacks , etc, at home. Does not include the cache of school library books on my desk at work. Also, does not include Affinity by Sarah Waters, which I need to finish re-reading so![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queenzulu can borrow it.)
Hmm. I need a book-related icon. In the meaintime.... cool Mr and Mrs Smith icon byliviapenn!
(sound like a stampede of hyperactive elephants) Okay, AFTER they trip on down to the gym, then it's quiet.
I need to catch up obn blurbing what I've read lately. In the meantime, here's a list of what I've got otu from the library and haven't read yet:
Acceleration / by McNamee, Graham.
Bad girls in love / by Voigt, Cynthia.
Bad, badder, baddest / by Voigt, Cynthia.
It's not easy being bad / by Voigt, Cynthia.
(sequels to Bad Girls, upper elementary/junior high politics and scheming)
Beautiful Inez : a novel / by Schneider, Bart.
(adult fiction, and that's all I remember about this one. I know I had a reason for signing it out. Hmm.)
The blue mirror / by Koja, Kathe.
(YA drama-suspense)
Can't get there from here / by Strasser, Todd.
(YA drama, think it's about street kids. Picked it up because it's the same person who wrote that whole series of "Help! I'm Trapped in My Dog's Body" type books that enthrall ten yaer old boys.)
Day of tears : a novel in dialogue. by Lester, Julius, 1939-
(What the title says. YA, about the slave trade.)
Every boy's got one / by Cabot, Meg.
(fluffy adult (as opposed to YA) romance by the author of the Princess Diaries. Shutupshutupshutup.)
The exchange student / by Gilmore, Kate.
(YA SF)
Exploding the myths : the truth about teens and reading / by Aronson, Marc.
The fair garden and the swarm of beasts : the library and the young adult / by Edwards, Margaret Alexander, 1902-1988.
(got both of these out for course development--online resources for YA books. It's supposed to run in August, so I guess I should start, y'know, reading.)
Fleshmarket / by Morgan, Nicola, 1959-
(YA historical mystery, set in Victorian England)
Godless / by Hautman, Pete, 1952-
(YA drama, think it's about high school kids who invent their own religion)
Hardscratch Row / by Cameron, Anne, 1938-
(CanLit, by the same author as a YA book I just reviewed and loved until the end, which I hated enough to throw the book across the room.)
Hear me out : true stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia. by Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia (Youth group)
(random non-fiction)
The key to the Golden Firebird : [a novel] / by Johnson, Maureen, 1973-
(YA novel about a family dealing with the death of the father. Same author as The Bermudez Triangle, which was a really good GLBT YA novel--read it if you like Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants.)
An order of Amelie, hold the fries / by Schindler, Nina.
(YA epistolary novel)
The radioactive boy scout : the true story of a boy and his backyard nuclear reactor / by Silverstein, Ken.
(biography, on the ALA's Best Books for YAs last year, about a teenager who built a nuclear reactor in the backyard. I'm halfway through this one right now.)
Ruby Tuesday / by Kogler, Jennifer Anne.
(YA fiction, teenaeg girl, the Dodgers, and gambling in Las Vegas. They all fit together somehow. I'll let you know how after I read it.)
Shelf life : stories by the book / by Paulsen, Gary.
(YA short story collection)
Singing the Dogstar blues / by Goodman, Alison.
(YA SF)
The witch's boy / by Gruber, Michael.
(YA fantasy)
(Does not include the twenty-nine books I've got on hold, or the twenty-three others I've got queued in a not-yet-on-hold list. Does not include the perpetual stack of paperbacks , etc, at home. Does not include the cache of school library books on my desk at work. Also, does not include Affinity by Sarah Waters, which I need to finish re-reading so
queenzulu can borrow it.)Hmm. I need a book-related icon. In the meaintime.... cool Mr and Mrs Smith icon by
liviapenn!
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Date: 2005-06-17 12:01 am (UTC)Let me know what you think of it. I actually have a copy of it around here somewhere. I was in Barnes and Noble before I went with the SO to a doctor's appointment. I had no book with me and not a lot of time. I picked that up because I remembered her name and the Princess Diaries (at least the ones I've read) weren't bad. I never willingly go to a doctor's office without a book.
I really ought to pick up one of these. Someone at work mentioned the series to me one day and now I see it every time I turn around, or so it seems.
I miss having a library that a) I can actually get to and b) that has a reasonable size collection. Mississauga spoiled me.
Joan
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Date: 2005-06-17 12:15 am (UTC)