This was an amazing month full of amazing experiences and wonderful people. I started Grad school, made new friends and began learning about Children’s Lit. And I also read. Not as much as I have been reading but still, substantially. Here are the books I read this month:
- The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz
- Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair – Pablo Neruda
- Wonders of the Invisible World – Patricia McKillip
- Adaptation – Malinda Lo
- Truly Grim Tales – Patricia Galloway
- The Tale of Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo
- The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas – Tony Wilson
- The Legend of Elinea – Cathy Delanssay
- Lady Hahn and Her Seven Friends – Yumi Heo
- Aya – Marguerite Abouet
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
- Eva – Peter Dickinson
- Michael Foreman’s World of Fairy Tales – Michael Foreman
- The Day Before – Lisa Schroeder
- House of Shadows – Rachel Neumeier
- Anastasia Krupnik – Lois Lowry
- Two and Twenty Dark Tales – Nina Berry
- Postcards – Jason Rodriguez
- Page by Paige – Laure Lee Gulledge
- Ironskin – Tina Connolly
- Skellig – David Almond
- Out – Natsuo Kirino
- The Eternal Smile – Gene Luen Yang
- Small Damages – Beth Kephart
- The Ghost’s Child – Sonya Hartnett
- Keeping the Castle – Patrice Kindl
- Castle Waiting vol 1 – Linda Medley
- The Dark Light – Sara Walsh
- Vessel – Sarah Beth Durst
- I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats – Francesco Marciuliano
- Rift – Andrea Cremer
- Undercurrent – Tricia Rayburn
- A Walk on the Tundra – Rebecca Hainnu
- The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Wow, that’s nuts! That’s more than a book a day (my maths is terrible but that’s three books more than there are days in the month!). I’m in awe, truly. If I could read like this I might actually have a hope of getting through my TBR mountain. :)
Are you going to review them all? I’d love to hear your thoughts on a lot of these.
What did you think of Out? I liked it so much I got two more of her books, but I still haven’t got around to reading them.
I liked it a lot! I will have a review up one of these days. I read Real World by her too and it was pretty good. I think I shall Grotesque as well and there’s a new book by her that’s coming out that sounds amazing.
Hi, Nafiza, thanks for following me! You caught my eye because of your last post about bloggers reviewing books, and also because you’re in Grad School working on what I assume is your MLIS. I just finished my MLIS last May, so find it interesting to see what others do in their programs (I went through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). I look forward to talking more with you and reading your reviews! :)
Hi Merin! While my faculty is in SLAIS (school of library archival and information science), I’m actually mastering in Children’s Lit which is multidisciplinary so we do end up taking quite a few courses similar to that of MLIS students. It’s a lot of fun. I look forward to talking more with you too!
That’s awesome! The only course I didn’t get to take in Grad School was Children’s Literature, because it didn’t fit in my schedule. I took History of Children’s Literature instead, and really enjoyed it. So I’ll be paying close attention to any mentions of your coursework for sure. :)