Showing posts with label book list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book list. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

LDSPBP: Four Halloween Stories

Get into the Halloween Spirit with picture books written by LDS authors.
Michael O. Tunnell's Halloween Pie
Don't go eating a witches pie. It may be cursed. Yummy recipe included.
Cambria Evans Bone Soup
The retelling of a classic fable with a creepy twist.
Skeleton Cat by Kristyn Crow
A dancing cat grooves in the graveyard
Mrs. McMurphy's Pumpkin by Rick Walton
A creepy pumpkin with a wicked wicked smile. It wants to eat you and just keeps coming back.
 

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Books read in 2010

List of Books read in 2010


137 Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys (won in contest)
138 Heroes of Glorietta Pass (won in contest)
139 Brellan’s Tale by Kindal Debenham (manuscript)
140 Two Girl’s of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein (library)
141 The Giver by Lois Lowry (library)
142 Wolfhound by Kindal Debenham (manuscript)
143 Maurice and his educated rodents by Terry Pratchett (library)
144 Band of Sisters by Annette Lyon (electronic review copy)
145 Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman (library)
146 Leviathan re-read
147 Leigh Ann’s Civil War by Ann Rinaldi (library)
148 Being Sixteen by Ally Condie (purchased)
149 Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik (Purchased)
150 Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen (library)
151 Victory of eagles by Naomi Novik (Purchased)
152 My ridiculous Romantic Obsessions by Becca Whilhite (Purchased)
153 Pegasus by Robin McKinley (borrowed from librarian)
154 Mistwood by Leah Cypress (borrowed from Librarian)
155 The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (purchased)
156 The Last Waltz by G.G. Vandagriff (purchased)
157 Alma the Younger by H. B. Moore (review copy)
158 Princess of Glass by Jessica Day George (purchased)
159 Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (purchased)
160 Princess for Hire by Lindsey Leavitt (library)
161 Just One Wish by Jannette Rallison (library)
162 Calamity Jack by Shannon and Dean Hale (library)
163 Spells by Aprilynne Pike (library)
164 Ice by Sarah Beth Durst (library)
165 Mayflower by Beverly Peirce Strobel (Review copy)
166 this world we live in by Susan Beth Pfeffer (library)
167 I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (library)
168 Pocket of Guilt by Dora Lee Thompson (ARC)
169 Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (library)
170 Airman by Eoin Colfer (library)
171 The Princess and the Snowbird by Mette Ivie Harrison (library)
172 The Heist Society by Ally Carter (library)
173 The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne Duprau (library)
174 The 13th Reality: The Blade of Shattered Hope by James Dashner (library)
175 Secondhand Charm by Julie Berry (ARC Bloomsbury)
176 Raven Speak by Diane Lee Wilson (library)
177 The Limit by Kristen Landon (Purchased)
178 Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld (Purchased)
179 Enchanted Ivy by Sarah Beth Durst (library)
180 My Double Life by Janette Rallison (library)
181 Matched by Ally Condie (Purchased)
182 Bounded by Aneeka (manuscript)

I read 45 Books this year. Down from my usual number. I've been slacking off recently, as I still need to write a review for Behemoth.

3 book manuscripts written by people close to me
22 from library
2 contest wins
11 purchased with my money
2 borrowed from people
5 ARCs

My favorites:

1. Charles and Emma
2. Being Sixteen
3. Pegasus
4. Mistwood
5. Behemoth

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Oh, how I love the library in the summer time!

Books I just returned to the library recently:
Calamity Jack by Dean and Shannon Hale (husband approved)
Airman by Eoin Colfer (husband approved)
Princess for Hire by Lindsey Leavitt
Just One Wish by Janette Rallison
This world we live in by Susan Beth Pfeffer (husband approved)
Spells by Aprilynne Pike


Books I recently checked out:
Boneshaker by Cheri Priest (husband excited to read. Score! )
The Softwire Series: A Virus on Orbis (husband interested)
The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld (husband eager to read. Score again! )
Ice by Sarah Durst
I’d tell you I’d love but then I’d have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland.

Books I have on Hold:
The Princess and the Snowbird by Mette Ivie Harrison ( bah! I can’t wait. I’m sooo excited for this one! )
The 13th Reality: Blade of Shattered Hope by James Dashner

Thursday, December 31, 2009

List 2009





List of books read in 2009
82 Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling
83 Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larsen
84 Comfortable in my Own Genes by Tamra Norton
85 Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale
86 Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
87 The Edge on the Sword by Rebecca Tingle
88 C.S. Lewis the Great divorce
89 My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
90 Promises to Keep by Dean Hughes
91 Isabelle Webb: Legend of the Jewel by Nancy Campbell Allen
92 Traitor by Sandra Grey
93 Freefall by Traci Hunter Abramson.
94 Bound on Earth By Angela Hallstrom.
95 First Day by Ally Braithwaite Condie.
96 Waiting for the light to change by Annette Haws
97 Keeping Keller by Tracy Winegar
98 Lemon Tart by Josi Kilpack
99 Going Postal terry Prachett
100 Finding Faith by Terri Ferran
101 City of Ember Jeann Duprau
102 Ravenmaster Elvira Woodruff
103 Spare Change by Aubrey Mace
104 Fields of Home by Rachel Ann Nunes
105 Book of Jude by Kimbery Heuston
106 City of Sparks Jeann Duprau
107 How to take the ex-out of ex-boyfriend Janette Rallison
108 Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
109 I’m Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells
110 The 13th Reality and the hunt for Dark Infinity by James Dashner
111 Reunion by Ally Condie
112 The Hourglass Door by Lisa Magnum
113 Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
114 Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
115 Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
116 The Graveyard Book by Niel Gaiman
117 A Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce

118 Pendragon: Pilgrims of Rayne
119 My Fair Godmother by Jannette Rallison
120 Gossamer by Lois Lowry
121 At Journey’s End by Annette Lyon
122 I am Apache by Tanya Landman
123 Everything is Fine by Ann Dee Ellis
124 The Princess and the Bear by Mette Ivie Harrison
125 Recovering Charles by Jason F. Wright
126 Wings by Aprilynne Pike
127 FlyGirl by Sherri L. Smith 128 Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
129 Saving Madeline by Rachel Ann Nunes
130 Methods of Madness by Stephanie Black
131 Spires of Stone by Annette Lyon

123 Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
124 The Maze Runner by James Dashner
125 Forest Born by Shannon Hale
126 Alcatraz versus the Knights of Crystallia by Brandon Sanderson
127 Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George
128 Once was Lost by Sara Zarr
129 The Midnighters 1 by Scott Westerfeld
130 The Midnighters 2 by Scott Westerfeld
131 Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Peffer
132 The dead and the gone by Susan Beth Peffer

133 The Midnighters 3 by Scott Westerfeld
134 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
135 Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
136 Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Books Read in 2008

The bolded ones are my favorites. What a fun reading year! The blog is offically a year old now. Yea!

1 Austenland by Shannon Hale
2 Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
3 Tangled Roots By G.G. Vandergriff
4 Extras by Scott Westerfeld
5 Forget me not by Michelle Ashman Bell
6. Tempest Tossed by Josi Kilpack
7. Yearbook by Alyson Condie
8. On Second Thought by Robison Wells
9. The Believer by Stephanie Black
10. 80 Miles To Nowhere by Melissa Alstock
11. Mummy’s the Word by Kerry Blair
12. When the Bough Breaks by Kay Lynn Magnum
13.A Love Like lily by Kay Lynn Magnum
14 A Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
15 Sheep’s Clothing by Josi Kilpack
16 Saboteur by Dean Hughes
17 Counting Stars by Michelle Paige Holmes 18 House of Secrets by Jeffery S. Savage
19 Time Riders by Sierra St. James
20 The 13th Reality by James Dashner
21 Upon the Moutains by Gale Sears
22 Flying Home by Rachel Ann Nunes
23 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznack
24 Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day Geroge
25 Sun and Moon, Ice and snow by Jessica Day George
26 Dragon Flight by Jessica Day Geroge (not reviewed)
27 Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
28 The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
29 His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik Random house
30 Forged in the Refiner’s Fire by Candace Salima and Elizabeth Cheever (non-fiction)
31 Heaven Scent by Rebecca Talley
32 Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Knopf
33 The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
34 The Sea of Monsters Rick Riordan
35 The Titan’s Curse Rick Riordan
36 Battle of the Labyrinth Rick Riordan
37 Ravens in the Winter by Bernd Heinrich (non-fiction)
38 Icing on the Cake by Elodia Strain
39 The Authurian Omen by G.G. Vandergriff
40 Fool Me Twice by Stephanie Black
41 Our of Jerusalem by H.B. Moore
42 The Shakeress by Kimberly Heuston
43 Solider Boys by Dean Hughes
44 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
45 My Mom’s a Mortician by Patricia Wiles
46 Ben Franklin’s Almanac by Candace Flemming (non-fiction)
47 FarWorld: Water’s Keep by J. Scott Savage
48 The White Bedouin by Geroge Potter
49 Coffin House by Pamela Carrington Reid
50 Hunting Gideon by Jessica Draper
51 East by Edith Pattou
52 Two Road by Chris Crowe
53 Journey of the Heart by Dave W. Free
54 The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love by A.E. Cannon
55 Serpent Tide by K.L. Fogg
56 Trouble in Palmayra by Rob Ficiur
57 Rescue the Prophet by Rob Ficiur
58 Dante’s Daughter by Kimberly Heuston
59 Renaissance Beauty by Heather Simonsen
60 The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
61 Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
62 Her Good Name by Josi Kilpack
63 Widow’s Revenge by K.L. Fogg
64 All’s Fair by Julie Coulter Bellon
65 Facing the Enemy by Dean Hughes
66 As Wide as the River By Dean Hughes
67 Abinadi by Heather Moore
68 Time and Eternity by E.M. Tippets
69 Alcatraz Verses the Scrivener’s Bones
70 Minding Mama by Marilyn Arnold
71 Our Eleanor by Candace Fleming (non-fiction)
72 Christmas in Haggerty By Betsy Brannon Green
73 Christmas Rose by Robyn Buttars
74 Eyes of a Stranger by Rachel Ann Nunes
75 The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson(re-read) (not reviewed)
76 The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (re-read) (not reviewed)
77 Black Powder War by Naomi Novik (not reviewed)
78 Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik (not reviewed)
79 Mississippi Trial 1955 by Chris Crowe (not reviewed)
80 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse (not reviewed)
81 The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (not reviewed)

Partials (that I still plan on finishing…)Biography of Alexander Hamilton
Team of Rivals the political genius of Abraham Lincoln

Top Five LDS
Counting Stars
Fool Me Twice
Sheep’s Clothing
Serpent Tide
Time and Eternity

Top Five YA
Ben Franklin’s Almanac
The Lightening Thief
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Shakeress