Bookish things

[daemonluna]

troutkitty is still feeling blah, so she did not make it to IFWA tonight. She is all flannel-nightie clad, and curled up playing the latest Zelda incarnation on the GBA.

Books to blurb from the past two weeks:
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
Seedfolk by Paul Fleischman
The Bourning Room by Paul Fleischman
Worlds Afire: The Hartford Circus Fire of 1944 by Paul B. Janeczko
Margaux With An X by Ron Koertege
Donorboy by Brendan Halpin
Heck, Superhero by Martine Leavitt
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
The Schwa was here by Neal Shusterman
Mosh Pit by Kristyn Dunnion

(I've been working my way through 2005's BBYA, does it show?) And yes, still not done Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Lovely, lovely book!

Checking the 2006 nominations... ooh, new Laurie Halse Anderson, Prom! (She wrote the truly awesome Speak.) New David Leviathan, Are We There Yet? (He wrote the truly amazing Boy Meets Boy!) And Janet McNaughton's spiffy YA SF novel The Secret Under My Skin must have been just released in the US, since it came out in Canada a few years ago. And another new one from Julie Anne Peters, Far from Xanadu, which looks like another GLBT YA title. Mmm, happy anticipatory book buzz...