Sunday, October 03, 2010

Sunday Salon: Reading, Read, To Read #40

Nominations opened Friday for the 2010 season of the Cybils. Nominations  remain open until October 15th at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time. What can you nominate? Children's/YA Books published between October 16, 2009 and October 15, 2010. What are the categories? 
  • Fiction Picture Books 
  • Easy Readers
  • Short Chapter Books
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction (Elementary/Middle)
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction (Teen)
  • Graphic Novels (Elementary/Middle)
  • Graphic Novels (Teen)
  • Nonfiction/Informational Picture Books
  • Nonfiction Middle Grade/Teen
  • Poetry
  • Middle Grade Fiction
  • Young Adult Fiction
Next weekend is the 24 Hour Read-a-thon. It is not too late to sign up! So far there are over 300 of us signed up to read! This week's weekly geeks is related to the read-a-thon. I am planning on participating. As for what I'm reading--I hope to get MANY things read. I'd love to read some MG/YA fiction. And it would be great to read a graphic novel or two. And, of course, I'd LOVE to read more short stories from the Stories of Ray Bradbury!

Earlier this week, I posted "my numbers" for this quarter--July through September.

What I've Read This Week:

I Am Number Four. Pittacus Lore. 2010. August 2010. HarperCollins. 440 pages.
Bleak House. Charles Dickens. 1852-1853. 912 pages.
Evil Genius. Wilkie Collins. 1886. 348 pages.   
God's Mighty Acts in Creation by Starr Meade. 2010. Crossway. 112 pages. 
Fallen. Lauren Kate. 2009. Random House. 464 pages.
The Birthday Ball. Lois Lowry. With illustrations by Jules Feiffer. 2010. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 186 pages.
Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia. Barbara O'Connor. 2003. FSG. 112 pages.
Justin Case: School, Drool, And Other Daily Disasters. Rachel Vail. 2010. Feiwel & Friends. 256 pages.
The Pirate of Kindergarten. George Ella Lyon. 2010. June 2010. Simon & Schuster. 40 pages.
Ninja Cowboy Bear Presents The Way of the Ninja. David Bruins. Illustrated by Hilary Leung. 2010. September 2010. Kids Can Press. 32 pages.
Tuck Me In. Dean Hacohen and Sherry Scharschmidt. 2010. Candlewick Press. 40 pages.
Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan. Jane Yolen. Illustrated by Steve Adams. 2010. August 2010. Penguin. 40 pages.
Liberty or Death: The Surprising Story of Runaway Slaves Who Sided With the British During The American Revolution. By Margaret Whitman Blair. 2010. National Geographic. 64 pages.
 
Coming Soon:


They Called Themselves the K.K.K: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group. Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2010. August 2010. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 172 pages.



Wee Free Men. Terry Pratchett. 2003. HarperCollins. 400 pages.


Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Alan Bradley. 2009. Doubleday Canada. 304 page


The Lighter Side of Life and Death. C.K. Kelly Martin. 2010. May 2010. Random House. 240 pages.


Ender's Game: Battle School. (Graphic Novel) Orson Scott Card. Pasqual Ferry. Christopher Yost. 2009. Marvel. 128 pages.

Currently Reading: 


The Maze Runner. James Dashner. 2009. Random House. 384 pages.


Hat Full of Sky. Terry Pratchett. 2004. HarperCollins. 288 pages.


The Stories of Ray Bradbury. Introduction by Christopher Buckley. 2010. April 2010. Knopf, Doubleday. 1112 pages.


© Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews

1 comment:

Kate Coombs said...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a new favorite of mine--it's quirky, and I love quirk, especially Brit quirk! Enjoy!