Listmania

100 Notable Books of 2011 I’ve read none of the fiction and am on the waiting list for one title; I’ve read one of the nonfiction and am on the waiting list for five titles. So much for thinking I read more fiction than nonfiction!

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Love is in the air…

I took a romance novel webinar at work a few months ago. My reason for doing so was straightforward: romance isn’t a genre I read much in, and it’s a weakness in my Reader Advisory skills, so this free webinar was an easy way to brush up on my knowledge. It was also quite fun. [...]

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Snow Day!

Or rather, a snowed-in weekend. Winter decided to give the midwest one last snowstorm, hooray. At least this wasn’t my weekend to work, and today the library is closed for the holiday anyway, so it really wasn’t too difficult to deal with–I sat on the sofa with Lush Puppy, drank cocoa, and read books: Zombies [...]

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11 in 11

Books due out later this year that I am looking forward to: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place II: The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood, 2/22 One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde, 3/8 Fury of the Phoenix by Cindy Pon, 3/29 The Devil’s Garden by Edward Docx, 4/1 in the UK, no [...]

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Links

If only I were crafty! How To Turn Your Book into a Handbag I bought this, and sad to say, I am very very bad at it. Librarian: The Game It’s higly entertaining. Adorable Kids With Obsolete Technology If I lived anywhere near Portland, I would patronize this store. Microcosm Zine Store in Portland Will [...]

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Award Season

ALA has announced the 2011 Youth Media Awards. Congrats to all the medalists!

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Odds & Ends

For Tolstoy and Russia, Still No Happy Ending Is 2011 going to be the year I finally read War and Peace? Maybe. Books Quiz of 2010 I only got 9/18 (there were at least two I *should* have gotten right), but I don’t feel too badly since it’s a British quiz. Or at least that’s [...]

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South Asian Author Challenge 2010

I did it. I read my ten books: Age of Shiva by Manil Suri (read 02/2010) Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (read 03/2010) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (read 08/2010) The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri (read 11/2010) Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet by Kashmira Sheth (read 11/2010) Half a Life by [...]

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2010 in Books

I read 188 books in 2010. (Well, ok, I haven’t finished that last one yet, but I will later tonight.) The 188 books break down thusly, although there are some overlapping categories: 68 adult fiction, 3 of which were short story collections 62 YA fiction, 1 of which was a short story collection 22 adult [...]

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Best of 2010?

The NY Times has published their 100 Notable Books of 2010 list. I have read one book on the list, and have about 4 or so on my to-be-read list. I do marginally better (percentagte-wise, anyway) with the individual critics lists: two to-be-read on Michiko Kakutani’s Top 10 Books of 2010 list, one read and [...]

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