Still fighting off the cold the kids brought me so I couldn’t even begin to consider anything serious so Jonathan Unleashed seemed like a good choice. Even if I have a love/hate with Meg Rosoff.
Turns out I liked it so much that I stayed up til almost midnight to finish it in one day. I was totally amused, though I rolled my eyes a whole lot at Jonathan’s breakdown and the wedding fiasco. Sheesh.
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I needed something easy to read in the days right before everyone came to visit, so I picked up The Mermaid’s Mirror. It was easy to read but it was also a little slow. And, I felt like I might have already read it.
It was pretty good, not great. I wonder if there’s a sequel involving Lena and Nix… it would seem like there should be.
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I love The Custard Protocol books almost as much as the Soulless books. Really. Imprudence was awesome. I’d been wondering about Pru’s father and how the transfer of his pack to a new alpha might go. Now I know. Also, FLOOTE is awesome. So is Miss Sekhmet, heh.
I also want to point out that pages 92/93 were the saddest thing ever. (The pack! Biffy! Pru! Really??? REALLY?)
First, the fact that I was able to get this book from my library is a great example of an awesome library system at work.
I saw this Poppy Jenkins review and thought I’d like to read it. So, I went to both of my libraries websites and it obviously wasn’t available. I wanted to read it enough that I went to the ILL site and requested it. I got an email shortly thereafter saying I couldn’t request a book that had been published less than six months ago, (oops, I didn’t know that was a rule), and the ILL would simply recommend MY library PURCHASE the book.
I didn’t think much about it after that, because what are the odds? Turns out, the odds are high because a couple of weeks later, my library had bought the book and it was waiting for me to pick up. THAT is awesomesauce.
The book? Poppy Jenkins wasn’t awesomesauce but it wasn’t bad, either. I liked Roselyn better than Poppy. A lot better. I just rolled my eyes at Poppy, over and over again.
Yay, Maisie Dobbs! Journey to Munich was pretty excellent – particularly the ending. Heh. I was hoping that was going to happen… and it did.
I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next, (though it’s going to be pretty depressing what with the whole WWII thing happening. Ugh.)
I have no idea how Bewitching: The Kendra Chronicles landed in our library stacks but it did. When I realized it was a sequel to a book I hadn’t read, I almost didn’t read it. But, TW said I didn’t need the first one and I believed her. She was right. It was a perfectly fine book to read without having read the first one.
It started a little slowly but I ended up enjoying it. I didn’t absolutely love the insertion of “fairy tales” from Kendra’s life but I didn’t hate it either. I may even some day read another book from this series.
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Let’s see… which graphic novels (all Cybils shortlisters) did I read? Oh yea…
Courtney Crumrin: Volume 7 … hated it. Didn’t finish it. At first, I thought it was because I’m way behind on this series, (I think the last one I read was 4), but based on the reviews — a whole lot of series fans just didn’t like this one. I’m glad it wasn’t just me.
Next, Dragons Beware!. I love Claudette and her friends. Absolutely love them.
Last, but not least, Baba Yaga’s Assistant was really good. I didn’t expect much from it, I’m not a very big Baba Yaga fan, so this really exceeded expectations.
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Well, that month didn’t go as expected, now did it? Oh well, it could have been worse, (and we did get an awesome #fakereadathon with Sharon out of the deal.) I’ll take it, particularly since I fell behind on tracking books and actually read more than I’ll show here — those will appear in September’s list, which I’ll need because life is just going to get weirder.
Total read: 16
Non-fiction: 6
YA: 5
Graphic novels: 4
Audio: 1
Cybils Shortlist: 7
The Six was a good Cybils choice. Computers scary. Computers taking over the world. Computers saving the world. People becoming computers.
Should it ever be an option, I do not want my brain transferred to a really big (though really kind of cool) computerized/brain-driven robot, kthnxbai.
Also, I need to read the sequel. Sooner rather than later.
We were in need of an audiobook and we’d either read everything that caught my eye or we would probably never want to read things that caught my eye. The View from Mount Joy looked like something we might have read and it looked like something we probably wouldn’t hate, so I grabbed it.
I mostly liked it. TW hated the main character but I thought he was OK. He was flawed and douchey but that’s how teen boys and men can be. It’s part of their societal makeup but he mostly overcame all of that. Mostly.
All in all, a perfectly fine audiobook while we waited for Maisie Dobbs to arrive.
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