Here are the books I’m busy reading:
LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: EMILY DICKINSON AND HER FAMILY’S FEUDS – (Lyndall Gordon)
I cannot stop talking about this book. Check it out!
I cannot stop talking about this book. Check it out!
THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS – (Katherine Paterson)
Paterson manages to create a doozy of a character I can feel compassion for.
Paterson manages to create a doozy of a character I can feel compassion for.
THE STRANGE CASE OF ORIGAMI YODA – (Tom Angleberger)
My son bought this at the book fair last month and has since read it five times. I’m not reading it fast enough for his taste (“What story are you on?” he keeps asking). Really fresh storyline.
My son bought this at the book fair last month and has since read it five times. I’m not reading it fast enough for his taste (“What story are you on?” he keeps asking). Really fresh storyline.
- The Gypsies of Spain – Jan Yoors (NF)
- If I Stay – Gayle Forman (YA)
- Catalyst – Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
- Fat Cat – Robin Brande (YA)
- Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
- Freedom Crossing – Margaret Goff Clark (MG)
- The Rights of the Reader – Daniel Pennac (NF)
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare (YA)
- Th1rteen R3asons Why – Jay Asher (YA)
- The Last Treasure – Janet S. Anderson (MG)
- Twisted – Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
- Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
- Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
- Henry and Ribsy – Beverly Cleary (MG)
- On the Banks of Plum Creek – Laura Ingalls Wilder (MG)
- Blink – Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
- On Writing – Stephen King (NF)
- The Help – Kathryn Stockett
- Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman – Dorothy Sterling (MG)
- Leaving Gee’s Bend – Irene Latham (MG)
- Flash Burnout – LK Madigan (YA)
- The Midnight Fox – Betsy Byars (MG)
- The Crimson Cap – Ellen Howard (YA)
- Riding Freedom – Pam Munoz Ryan (MG)
- Blessing’s Bead – Debby Dahl Edwardson (YA)
- Story of a Girl* – Sara Zarr (YA)
- Alabama Moon – Watt Key (YA)
- If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period* – Gennifer Choldenko (YA)
- The Long Winter – Laura Ingalls Wilder (MG)
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Fog Magic – Julia L. Sauer (MG)
- Ramona the Pest – Beverly Cleary (MG)
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson (YA)
- The Ballad of Lucy Whipple – Karen Cushman (MG)
- Three Rivers Rising – Jame Richards (YA)
- Four Perfect Pebbles – Lila Perl and Marion Lazan (MG)
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (MG)
- The Dead-Tossed Waves* – Carrie Ryan (YA)
- A Wedding in December – Anita Shreve
- Luddie’s Life – Cynthia Rylant (YA) novel-in-verse challenge title
- Aleutian Sparrow – Karen Hesse (MG) novel-in-verse challenge title
- Love, Hope, and Ivy June – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (MG)
- The All-Of-A-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor (MG)
- The Moving Finger – Agatha Christie
- Hugging the Rock – Susan Taylor Brown (MG)
- The Hollow – Agatha Christie
- The Yearling – Marjorie Rawlings (YA)
- The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt (YA)*
- Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder (MG)
- Before the Lark – Irene Bennett Brown (MG)
- The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman (YA)
- The Texicans – Nina Vida
- The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
- Each Little Bird that Sings – Deborah Wiles (MG)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney (MG)
- The Water Seeker – Kimberly Willis Holt (MG)
- Forest – Janet Taylor Lisle (MG)
- The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell – Lynda Durrant (MG)
- Far From You – Lisa Schoreder (YA) novel-in-verse challenge title
- Part of Me – Kimberly Willis Holt (MG)
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Cat Among the Pigeons – Agatha Christie
- Dumb Witness – Agatha Christie
- Love That Dog – Sharon Creech (MG) novel-in-verse challenge title
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken (MG)
- Hickory Dickory Dock – Agatha Christie
- Zel – Donna Jo Napoli (YA)
- Faithful – Janet Fox (YA)
- The Year of Miss Agnes – Kirkpactrick Hill (MG)
- First Light – Rebeccs Stead (MG)
- A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray (YA)
- Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins (YA)
- The Opposite of Love – Julie Buxbaum
- Hank the Cowdog #56: The Case of the Coyote Invasion – John R. Erickson (MG)
- Things Left Unsaid – Stephanie Hemphill – (YA)
- Shiver – Maggie Stiefvater (YA)
- Livvie Owen Lived Here – Sarah Dooley (MG)
- Dirty Little Secrets – CJ Omololu (YA)
- The Magician’s Nephew – CS Lewis (MG)
- Phoenix Rising – Karen Hesse (MG)
- Prisoners in the Palace – Michaela MacColl (YA)
* listened on CD
What are you currently reading?
I just picked up The Heist Soceity by Ally Carter, Crossing the Line by Glenn Rambo and a Susan Mallery book Finding Perfect. Whew!
Wow, that’s quite the list. I’m re-reading Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray and Anne of Green Gables. I’ve been taking a little break from YA.
Origami Yoda… hehehehe… I’m reading SOULLESS by Gail Carriger. Not sure what I think about it so far…sometimes I like it. Other times I wish I was reading something else. 🙂
I just finished Conspiracy of Kings by Megan W. Turner. I LOVE this series!
I lvoed Gilly Hopkins as a kid. Katherine Paterson was at the book festival in DC and I was tempted to take my old tattered hardback for her to sign. 🙂
Have you read all those book on the list, or are you working through it?
I’m reading books by the MFA faculty right now, which tend to be long. I just finished Live Through This, which is a memoir about a mom whose two teen daughters (12 and 14) ran away to live on the streets for two years. It was utterly heartbreaking. I’m now reading The Lonely Polygamist and The Sky Fisherman, both of which are fantastic.
happy reading!
As soon as I finish ATU, I’m planning to begin Reckless by Cornelia Funke.
The Great Gilly Hopkins! Goodness, you just made my day. 🙂
Wow, you’ve read a lot of books!
I’m reading the ARC of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen (YA, coming in Jan 2011). That will be my 89th book this year (and they’re not all kids’ books, but most are).
It’s excellent so far. I will probably post about it on my blog soon.
Also recently read One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (MG). Wonderful writing. Really likable main character.
Wow look at you go girl! OK I’m going to read that book on Emily, but mostly because I LOVE the title. =)
That is one great book list, thanks for sharing.
It is great to meet you to Caroline; hope you are having a good day.
I just also want to thank you for visting my blog and your gracious comment. Have a blessed week.
Gilly is one of my most favorite book characters. Love her! Must read the Emily book. And any book a kid reads 5 times is worth checking out! Thanks for sharing. I am finally getting to Mockingjay (older 2 boys read it first). Just finished Sheila O’Connor’s SPARROW ROAD (ARC). I have a hunch you will love it, Caroline. xo
None of you called me on my typo! That would be LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS.
Irene, I’ll get to read SPARROW ROAD sometime in the next few months, as the Class of 2k11 is doing an ARC exchange. Can’t wait! Sounds very much up my alley.
Right now I’m reading ALIEN INVASIONS & OTHER INCONVENIENCES, but I’ve also recently finished all five verse novels for your challenge!
-MAKE LEMONADE
-WITNESS
-LOVE THAT DOG
-OUT OF THE DUST
-ONE OF THOSE HIDEOUS BOOKS WHERE THE MOTHER DIES
Gabi, I’m so glad to hear it! I just counted up this morning and realized I’d read five as well. I still have three I’d like to add to my list.
What did you think?
Origami Yoda – must check that one out for my son. I think he would like that one.
I’m actually reading Ted Dekker’s latest. It’s actually about vampires in the 1400s or some time long ago. It’s a little strange even for me. Very different for him.
Caroline,
I loved reading all the verse novels! I’ll be posting about the five that I read tomorrow. Thanks so much for organizing this challenge! It was so fun.
goodness, you are doing well with the challenge! I keep hearing about oragami. Must pick it up!