January ReWind

So, as expected, I didn’t get much reading done this month. Between school (where I have to do a lot of non-recreational reading) and volunteering, my time just disappears. Honestly, even when I do have time, I don’t feel like reading because I’ve been reading all day and my eyes no longer want to comprehend words. I need to get back into the system and rediscover how much fun reading is. This is what I read this month:

1. Century – Bruce Bernard (the last century represented by brutal photographs. Heavy on the war pictures, death, famine, genocide. All of it capture on camera.)
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie (I will definitely be reviewing this at some point. Loved it.)
3. The Nightmare Affair – Mindee Arnett (review nearer to release date)
4. God Went to Beauty School – Cynthia Rylant (First verse novel of the year, didn’t impress me much.)
5. Some of the Kinder Planets – Tim Wynne-Jones (lovely collection of stories)
6. Racing the Dark – Alayna Dawn Johnson (review soon)
7. Wicked City – Alayna Dawn Johnson (meh)
8. The Night Fairy – Laura Amy Schlitz (cute)
9. The Several Lives of Orphan Jack – Sarah Ellis (loved it)
10. The Evolution of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin (Annoyed the hell out of me. Review forthcoming, probably.)
11. Winterling – Sarah Prineas (Liked it)
12. Smile – Raina Telgemeier (Funny)
13. The Wednesdays – Julie Bourbeau (review soonish)
14. Words under the Words – Naomi Shihab Nye (some of the poems were wonderful, others did not appeal to me as much)
15. A Tangle of Knots – Lisa Graff (A fun middle grade book)
16. Amber House – Kelly Moore et al (review forthcoming)
17. Pantomime – Laura Lam (look for review on blog)
18. Splendors and Glooms – Laura Amy Schlitz (loved it, must acquire it)
19. Free Fall – David Wiesner (I love his art!)
20. Sector 7 – David Wiesner (so lovely!)
21. Hurricane – David Wiesner (sigh!)
22. The Mad Man’s Daughter – Megan Shepherd  (liked it)
23. F in Exams – Richard Benson (Hilarious)
24. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (made me think a lot. I kind of loved this.)
25. The Goddess Chronicle – Natsuo Kirino (Wasn’t as awesome as I had hoped it would be.)

Tentative To-Read in February

1. The Horologican – Mark Forsyth
2. Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism – Alison Waller
3. The Girl with the Glass Feet – Ali Shaw
4. Quicksilver – R. J. Anderson
5. The Holders – Julianna Scott
6. The Dead and the Buried – Kim Harrington
7. The Cats of Tanglewood Forest – Charles de Lint
8. Steampunk III – Anne Vandemeer
9. Nobody – Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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