I love Cherie Priest. Loved Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches. It was excellent. Creepy, but excellent. I’m interested in the fact that I keep seeing it as “book one” — what the heck is going to be book two? I guess I’ll find out, eventually, right? Oh, I see — not a sequel, Chapelwood. Nice. Can’t wait!
If you love Cthulhu, you’ll want to read this.
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Total impulse pick up. The Green City Market Cookbook was ok. Not great. Might have been better during the spring or summer. Right now, ho hum. The weather isn’t making me feel at all interested in farmers markets. lol.
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Margaret Dilloway is awesome. Totally. I sort of fan-girlled all over her at BH14. I never do that sort of thing. I think I scared her. lol. Anyway, I absolutely loved The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns.
Gal is my kind of woman. I liked her. Such a great character. I also really liked the relationship between her and Riley. And, shockingly (if you know me), I loved the ending.
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I know, you’re shocked because I loved Amanda’s Surprise-Inside Cakes. Duh. I love Amanda. I have loved Amanda for YEARS. I love her blog and her instagram so her book, obviously. Love.
Now if I could just get someone to make me some of her cakes… I’ve pinned a bunch, pick one and make it for me and I will love YOU, too.
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Not a very auspicious start for the new year, eh? Four days in and I’ve just now finished the first book — a book I started reading about, oh, a month ago? No big deal — Nellie Taft (the book, not the woman) was a slow read and I’ve been busy doing all the things. My reading rate will pick up and drop off and pick up again. As usual. But, back to Nellie Taft…
I had high hopes for this biography but it was like too many biographies — a bit dull and textbook-like. Too bad since Nellie Taft was pretty darn interesting. Overall, I”m glad I read this one.
I’ve been reloading the Cybils blog for HOURS waiting for the list to appear and now the wait is over. Here are the finalists and I’m off to reserve a few at the library right now.
Easy Readers
– Clara and Clem Under the Sea
– Extraordinary Warren: Super Chicken
– Inch and Roly and the Sunny Day Scare
– My New Friend Is So Fun!
– Okay, Andy!
– Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey
– The Ice Cream Shop (Scholastic Reader Level 1)
Early Chapters
– Dory Fantasmagory
– Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake
– Lulu and the Rabbit Next Door
– Lulu’s Mysterious Mission
– The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure
– The Lion Who Stole My Arm
– Violet Mackerel’s Possible Friend
Fiction Picture Books
– Brimsby’s Hats
– Here Comes the Easter Cat
– Knock, Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me
– Maple
– Shhhh! We Have a Plan
– This is a Moose
Graphic Novels for Early & Middle Grades
– Bad Machinery: The Case of the Good Boy
– Bird and Squirrel on Ice
– El Deafo
– Gaijin: American Prisoner of War
– Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust
– The Dumbest Idea Ever
– Ballad
Graphic Novels for Young Adults
– In Real Life
– Strange Fruit (Volume 1)
– The Harlem Hellfighters
– The Shadow Hero
– Through the Woods
– To This Day: For the Bullied and the Beautiful
Middle Grade Fiction
– Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood
– All Four Stars
– Death By Toilet Paper
– Ice Dogs
– Nickel Bay Nick
– The Crossover
– The Meaning of Maggie
Non-Fiction for Early & Middle Grades
– Chasing Cheetahs
– Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
– The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats
– Alice + Freda Forever
– Be A Changemaker
– Beyond Magenta
– Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
– The Family Romanov
– The Freedom Summer Murders
– The Port Chicago 50
Poetry
– Brown Girl Dreaming
– Dear Wandering Wildebeest and Other Poems From the Water Hole
– Firefly July
– Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons
– Santa Clauses
– Voices From the March on Washington
– Water Rolls, Water Rises Water Rolls, Water Rises
Speculative Fiction for Early & Middle Grades
– Boys of Blur
– Greenglass House
– Nuts to You
– The Castle Behind Thorns
– The Jupiter Pirates: The Hunt for Hydra
– The Luck Uglies
– The Swallow
Speculative Fiction for Young Adults
– Death Sworn
– Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
– Noggin
– Salvage
– The Living
– The Winners Curse
– While We Run
Young Adult Fiction
– Gabi, A Girl In Pieces
– Girls Like Us
– I’ll Give You The Sun
– Pointe
– When I Was The Greatest
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Happy New Year etc. etc. etc.
In 2015 I want to read 250 books (which is fewer than I read this year BUT could be a stretch based on the other things that will be happening in my world in 2015.
I’m going to do the Cybil Shortlist again, of course.
I want to read 10 books from my stacks.
I want to listen to 20 audiobooks.
I really enjoyed catching up on sequels and prequels in 2014 so I’m going to do that again this year and also go in search of books I haven’t read by authors I’ve enjoyed.
Nothing too challenging on this list, really. Hopefully.
Did you set any reading goals for yourself?
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