Happy Sunday! I'm actually hoping for a nice day of reading and sewing today, so I'm posting this early to get it out of the way. It's been a while since I posted a Sunday Salon and I'd like to get back in the habit of thinking about reading more. For this week I'm easing back in easy.
First, these are the books I added to my Books I'd Like to Read list in the month of July, and the review that pushed me over the edge:
The Castaways
by Elin Hilderbrand- Gwendolyn at A Sea of Books
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine- Nymeth at Things Mean a Lot
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
by Steve Kluger- Heather at A High and Hidden Place
Black Hills
by Nora Roberts- Holly at Book Binge, nath at Books, Books and More Books
How To Say Goodbye In Robot
by Natalie Standiford- Gayle Forman
Hold Still
by Nina LaCour- Gayle Forman
Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by Daniel Radosh - Stephanie at Open Mind, Insert Book
I didn't manage to mark a single book off the list this month, but I do have Black Hills, Ella Enchanted and Rapture Ready checked out of the library at this very moment.
by Elin Hilderbrand- Gwendolyn at A Sea of BooksElla Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine- Nymeth at Things Mean a LotMy Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park
by Steve Kluger- Heather at A High and Hidden PlaceBlack Hills
by Nora Roberts- Holly at Book Binge, nath at Books, Books and More BooksHow To Say Goodbye In Robot
by Natalie Standiford- Gayle FormanHold Still
by Nina LaCour- Gayle FormanRapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by Daniel Radosh - Stephanie at Open Mind, Insert BookI didn't manage to mark a single book off the list this month, but I do have Black Hills, Ella Enchanted and Rapture Ready checked out of the library at this very moment.
Which leads me into my next short topic- where do I get my books anyway? I already told you that I don't request many ARCs. In fact, the whole conversation about ARCs made me feel so guilty that had to check and see what ARCs I DO have that I have not reviewed. I decided that I'd move one of them up the TBR so that I could slowly work off some of that guilt, so Rubies in the Orchard will be read soon. Soonish. What can I say, I have a ton of great library books checked out too! The majority of the books I actually get read lately do come from our library, which has a very nice renewal policy and I can usually renew them online. The rest of my books come from Paperbackswap. As we established when TRISH was here, I have a LOT of books sitting around unread (perhaps soon I'll post a new picture for you) and the majority of them come from Paperbackswap. It's a great site, if you're not a member you should really consider becoming one. (Aside: Do not get two book bloggers together and allow their respective husbands to overhear you discussing your book acquisitions. Said husbands will find much to bond over on the topic of bookshelves or lack thereof and unread books in general!)
Here's the full library list:
The top three are the ones I'm currently reading.
Black Hills
by Nora RobertsGraceling
by Kristen CashoreRapture Ready!
by Daniel RadoshThe Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women
by Dawn DaisThe Wednesday Wars
by Gary SchmidtThe Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit
by Jill Conner BrowneElla Enchanted
by Gail Carson LevineLa Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
by Dianne HalesGirl at Sea
by Maureen JohnsonThe Bermudez Triangle
by Maureen JohnsonTwenty Boy Summer
by Sarah OcklerThe Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History - and How We Can Fight Back
by Allen CollingePoplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America
by Martin J SmithParenting, Inc.: How the Billion-Dollar Baby Business Has Changed the Way We Raise Our Children
by Pamela PaulNo Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
by Jay DobynsColumbine
by Dave Cullen
I hope you get your wish, Lisa, and can spend the day reading and sewing. Looks like you have some interesting reading ahead of you! Enjoy and have a great week.
ReplyDeleteI hope you can get to My Most Excellent Year soon. It is SO good.
ReplyDeleteI hope you got to do some sewing and reading today!
On Nov. 21, 2008, the Harris and Klebold parents were sent the same letter requesting cooperation. "Your stories have yet to be fully told, and I view your help as an issue of historical significance," it said. "In 10 years, there have been no major, mainstream books on Columbine. This will be the first, and it may be the only one." The letter came not from Mr. Cullen but from Jeff Kass, whose Columbine: A True Crime Story, published by the small Ghost Road Press, preceded Columbine by a couple of weeks.
ReplyDelete"Mr. Kass, whose tough account is made even sadder by the demise of The Rocky Mountain News in which his Columbine coverage appeared, has also delivered an intensive Columbine overview. Some of the issues he raises and information he digs up go unnoticed by Mr. Cullen." --Janet Maslin, New York Times
"A decade after the most dramatic school massacre in American history, Jeff Kass applies his considerable reporting talents to exploring the mystery of how two teens could have planned and carried out such gruesome acts without their own family and best friends knowing about it. Actually, there were important clues, but they were missed or downgraded both by those who knew the boys best and by public officials who came in contact with them. An engrossing and cautionary tale for everyone who cares about how to prevent kids from going bad." -----Ted Gest, President, Criminal Justice Journalists
You're reading Graceling? I love that book! I know. I lie about how many books I have unread. lol Mainly by just not revealing the number, and no one looks that closely... And, I refuse to feel guilty about ARCs. I read by mood, so that's just how it is going to be. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a stack you've got. I have quite a few ARCs right now but they are all books that I requested in one way or another so I am looking forward to reading all of them.
ReplyDeleteI have another unpaid furlough day tomorrow so after the market I plan to read all day.
LOL! I can just imagine what your husbands were discussing in regards to books :) You've got some great books checked out from the library...I can't wait to hear more when you finish some of them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for including my book (COLUMBINE). I hope you find it rewarding.
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I'll be interested to hear what you think of Columbine. It's on my wish list.
ReplyDeleteHoly cow lady, that's a lot of library books! Definitely read Graceling, that one was awesome! And I read Poplorica for a class in college 5 or 6 years ago and thought it was pretty interesting...hopefully you'll think the same. :)
ReplyDeleteWoW...what a great library haul! Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to start My Most Excellent Year soon - really looking forward to it. Also, I hope you enjoy Ella Enchanted!
ReplyDeleteWow, look at that stack of books! There was a time I would have devoured it like a starving orphan. I just don't find the time to read books along with everything else I have going on! Good for you.
ReplyDeleteI thought we did a pretty good job of keeping the book talk to a minimum. Actually, it's kind of nice that we could find *other* things to talk about! But ya, books is kind of a sore subject with Scott. :) He thinks it's pretty ridiculous, especially since he doesn't read.
ReplyDeleteUm, like how you always put my name in caps--like you're yelling my name. :P