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1selkie_girl
Edited: Apr 2, 2008, 2:07 pm

This is my first time doing this but I'm pretty sure I'll rack up fifty or more before the year is over with.

So my list is going to be full of different things from different genres and reading levels.

January
1. Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
2. The Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
3. The Secret Life of Josephine
4. Austenland by Shannon Hale
5. The Looking Glass Warsby Frank Beddor

Feb.
6.Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
7. Love and Other Four Letter Words by Carolyn Mackler
8. Copper Sun by Sharon M. Drapper
9. Turnabout by Margaret Peterson Haddix
10.Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
11. The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton
12. Blood Price by Tanya Huff

March
13. Little Lady, Big Apple by Hester browne
14. Pretties by Scott Westerfield
15. Feed by M.T Anderson
16. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
17.Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
18. Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
19. Teen Idol by Meg Cabot
20. Shadowland by Meg Cabot
21. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
22. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren willig
23.Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

2selkie_girl
Jan 28, 2008, 8:44 am

Just finished The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor I actually enjoyed it more then I thought I would, the story line was great full of adventure, great characters and nasty villians.

3selkie_girl
Feb 11, 2008, 12:34 pm

Copper Sun by Sharon M Draper was my next choice in novels. It's been sitting on the library shelf for sometime and I haven't gotten around to reading it. But since Feb. is Black history month and I had to put it on display, I figured that it was a great time to finally pick it up.

It was very good, the story was great, I loved the characters (and abhored the wicked ones) Amari is such a strong female in this book. It was fast paced and kept me interested. Defiently worth taking a look at, so if you need something to read for this month, pick this book up!

4selkie_girl
Feb 28, 2008, 8:28 am

#12 Blood Price by Tanya Huff

Okay this is one of those kind of books that I see a TV show or movie and I want to read what it's based on. I've seen Blood Ties on TV several times and loved it so I decided to give the book a try.

I wasn't disappointed. It was a great book and I found the tv show was closer to the book then not, which as I'm sure, you all know doesn't happen often.

I love how sassy and witty Victory and her comebacks just make me burst out laughing.

5selkie_girl
Mar 11, 2008, 11:31 am

13. Little Lady, Big Apple by Hester browne

This is the sequel to The Little Lady Agency and unlike so many sequels it was not a disappointment. It still had the same warm humor and likeable characters as the first book, who had their annoying moments at times but those could be easily forgiven.

6selkie_girl
Mar 11, 2008, 11:35 am

14. Pretties by Scott Westerfield

Apparently this is my time of sequels because as my last read, this is the second book of the uglies series.

Tally, the main character, felt like a completly different person then the one in previous Uglies but it gives merit to the change she has gonne through. The story was a little jumpy at places and just when it looked like it would be predictable, the author does a complete 180 to make the reader blink at the page in surprise.

7selkie_girl
Mar 11, 2008, 11:38 am

15. Feed by M.T Anderson

This was a book I had gotten on CD to listen to. I had gotten to about the second to last CD when I had to return it to the library so I was unable to finish it.

I decided to pick up the printed edition and found the writing to very jerky at some points. I was disappointed and wished I had finished listening to it.

If you have a chance to listen to this book on tape, it's amazing.

8selkie_girl
Mar 15, 2008, 12:55 pm

16. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig

Amy, a not very prim nor very popular young lady in England has wanted nothing other then join the Scarlet Pimpernel on one of his daring raids to save people from the French Revolution. The only problem is a) she's a girl and b) the French Revolution is no longer and c) Sir Percy Blakney has retired from his days as the Scarlet Pimpernel.

But she soon turns her attention to his replacement the Purple Gentien who's a thorn in Napoleon's side. So with a smart cousin and a cranky old chaperone in tow, she heads over to France with a nose for trouble and aventure.

This is defiently a guilty pleasure, the book is predictable in its situations for the most part but it's so funny that the reader doesn't mind. Amy and Richard, the couple of the book, have sharp wits and great fights that are so enjoyable you will find yourself laughing out loud.

This is a great book for relaxing beside a pool during the summer.

9selkie_girl
Mar 19, 2008, 3:29 pm

17. Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez

I usually don't read nonfiction, I find a lot of it tends to be very dry and boring, but I saw this book and decided on a whim to pick it up. I was not disappointed!

This book reads like a novel even though sometimes the author sometimes is a little bit annoying (like marrying a guy she's only known for 20 hours) but I learned a lot and was facinated by the culture over in the middle east. The women of the book were amazing even with the obstacles that they face. I wonder if the average american woman could do as much?

It seems I'm pick a lot of books up lately set in some part of the Middle East.

10selkie_girl
Mar 19, 2008, 3:33 pm

18. Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci

Egg, an odd talented girl, is trying to survive high school where one is pushed into one mold or another. She takes on the persona of her favorite character from a sci fi movie, complete with cape and a Brittney Spears shaved head. She thinks that everyhting is going along fine until a new boy at school makes her re-examine her life.

This was a quirky kind of book, not really a love story and not quite a coming of age (even though it had qualities of both) I enjoyed this book and through it quickly.

11selkie_girl
Mar 27, 2008, 10:47 am

Lately I've been on a Meg Cabot kick, I'm really not sure why. When you pick up her books, you pretty much know that you're going to get a cute, funny read, perfert for chilling away hours.

I first picked up Teen Idol the book jacket promised a very interesting little story, basically a movie star goes to a normal high school in disguise while a girl has to show him around.

Jenny is an all around good girl, the girl that parents and teachers love to have, so doesn't make trouble, she's responsible, makes decent grades and on the newspaper staff. So when the guidance officer chose her to escort around famous hollywood heart throb, Luke Striker, they figure nothing can go wrong and where they ever mistaken!

As I read this book, I couldn't help but remembering some teachers and students that I have known that made an appearance in this book under different names and different appearance.

It was cute as I figured it would be.

***1/2 /5

Shadowland's main character Suze, is almost a complete opposite of Good Girl Jenny. Suze is a tough girl who doesn't mind telling someone off or getting into fights with the dead, (ghosts that is) Still underneath the tough exterior, she is a good girl, like all of Cabot's characters. Suze is witty and tough who has a hard time opening up to people, both alive and dead.

She reminds me of a Buffy like character, the dialogue was witty and the story was pretty fast paced. Would be good for reluctant readers into the paranormal.

***/5

12selkie_girl
Apr 1, 2008, 11:31 am

21. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane setterfield

Honestly it took me forever to get through this book. I would get bored with this one and put it down in favor of another book before picking it back up.

The main character, Maragret Lea, works in her father's bookstore and writes biographies for obscure writers of the 19th century. So when Vida Winter, a popular writer of the day, asks her to write her biography, Maragret is needless to say shocked.

Margret soon discovers that Vida Winter is hiding dark secrets of ghosts, governesses, and twins.

This book was sort of difficult to get through, I liked very few of the characters. The plot would get interesting then become dull, get interesting again and so forth.

Oh and I've never wanted a main character to use goggle so much in my life. I'm not sure if it simply wasn't invented yet or Maragret had no knowledge of technology. I suppose the lack of technology added to gothicness of the book, but still...

Anyway, it's probably just me who felt that.

13selkie_girl
Edited: Jun 30, 2008, 3:22 pm

I was running out of room with the previous list, apparently LT doesn't like you to touchstone that many books so heres the continuing list.

April

24. Maximum Ride The Final Warning by James Patterson
25. Little Lady Agency and the Princeby Hester Browne
26. The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey
27. The Light of the Oracle by Victoria Hanley
28. Mistress of Spices by Chitra Divakaruni
29. Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey
30. The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley

May

31. The Healer's Keep by Victoria Hanley
32. Aftershock by Kelly Easton
33. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
34. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
35. The Window by Jeanette Ingold
36.The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
37. The Swan Kingdom by Zoe Marriott
38. Dracula by Bram Stoker

14selkie_girl
Apr 3, 2008, 3:21 pm

Been behind on my thoughts of books so here we go

23. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Loved it!! Now I want to see the movie, it was so good, I loved the characters expessially Novalee and F. Hull (working in a library I might be biased on the last one though)

Sort of reminds me of Fried Green Tomatoes with Lett's style of writing.

15selkie_girl
Apr 16, 2008, 9:01 am

24. Maximum Ride The Final Warning by James Patterson

The fourth in the series, Final Warning has the flock traveling to the south pole to do a series of tests for global warning.

I didn't enjoy this book as well as I did the first and second of the series. It seemed to be too short, too quick, and too preachy.

In the end, Global Warming is bad and the flock is still alive.

16selkie_girl
Apr 17, 2008, 9:28 am

25. Little Lady Agency and the Prince by Hester Browne

We once again join Melissa B as she revamps all the single men in London to make them datable for the rest of the female population as Honey.

If that wasn't enough, she has to
a) Plan a baby christening of her little nephew
b) Plan her wedding to handsome American finacee
c) reform a prince, who's more like a rockstar then a prince william.
d) deal with her crazy family who's about to drive her mad over those things listed above.

I've enjoyed every one of the Little Lady Agency series but this one surprised me the most, expessially the ending. But you won't get a peep out me.

17selkie_girl
Apr 18, 2008, 2:49 pm

26. The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes lackey

Fluff. Pure Fluff. Lackey tries her hand at the botice ripping genre. I'm disappointed that she felt that she needed to go that way.

18selkie_girl
Edited: Apr 28, 2008, 11:13 am

27. The Light and the Oracle by Victoria Hanley

Bryn is a poor stone cutters daughter, so when the head priest picks her to be one of the new novices in the temple, she is thrilled. She soon learns that the temple is not as perfect as she had thought it would be. She is soon met with pettiness and snobbery due to her low class. Plus there is something amiss in the temple, something dark and wicked that threatens to consume her and the others.

Nicely written fantasy which kept the reader interested. Plus the world is easy to fall into and the characters are likeable.

19selkie_girl
Apr 28, 2008, 11:19 am

28. The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Divakaruni

To everyone who enters the spice shop nestled in a bad part of town, Tilo, the shop owner is a haggard old Indian woman in a stain sari. But the truth is, she was turned into an old woman so she could become a Mistress of Spices to help those around her with the magic of the herbs.

She is content with her life until a dark haired American stranger comes into her shop who seems to see through her transfigured body.

I picked this book up because I saw the movie earlier in the year. If it wasn't for seeing the movie first I think I would've been confused in some parts, but it is well written magical realism that makes you see America and people through the eyes of an Indian woman.

20selkie_girl
May 5, 2008, 1:48 pm

29. Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey

Nina, a ballet dancer in paris knows one thing for sure, if she doesn't snag herself a rich old 'patron' she'll starve. When a fellow ballerina sees Nina as a rival, she makes sure that Nina is dispelled from the company crushing Nina's dreams. Now she is stuck in paris with no job, no food and a cat. The cat, she finds, can talk and he suggests a plan to help Nina get back on a stage. she takes another ballerina's name and travels to England unbeknownst that evil will soon find her.

Based on Puss In Boots, Lackey weaves a magical tale set in the turn of the century England. I enjoyed the book even though the plot was predictable. But it was a nice read and a good continuation of the Elemental Master Series

21selkie_girl
May 8, 2008, 9:40 am

30. The Seer and The Sword by Victoria Hanley
31. The Healer's Keep by Victoria Hanley

The Seer and the Sword - Princess Torina, who has the ability to see the future, and her friend Landen, who seeks a sword that belongs to his conquered kingdom, are separated when a treacherous murderer gains power, but from exile each works to restore peace and the rightful rulers. Interesting young adult fantasy, good for a summer read but don't expect to go too deep with it.

The Healers Keep - The followup to the Seer and the Sword. It involves Sara, Torina's and landon's child who wants to train in the Healer's Keep and learning the mystic ways of her Father's country. Yet something isn't right in the Keep and she and her friend Dorjan set out on a quest to find his enslaved sister who holds a mytical stone that will solve the problems of the keep. This sequel was very slow moving and though it did give a peek into the future of Torina and Landon, it fell flat. Though Hanley's worldbuilding skills are very well done.

22selkie_girl
May 19, 2008, 11:59 am

32. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
33. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson was just an average kid, well if one didn't count ADHD and dyslexia as well as the knack for getting kicked out of every school he ever attended. Things just happen to him... Like being chased by mythological monsters. It turns out that he is the son of one of the Greek gods and he has to attend a camp of other half bloods in order to try to survive to his next birthday.

This is a really good series for kids, the characters are great as well as the adventure. It's a fast paced read and now I can't wait to get my hands on the other books. Reminds me of Harry Potter.

23selkie_girl
May 27, 2008, 11:22 am

34.The Window by Jeanette Ingold

Mandy's life changed in an instant. A car crash took from her, her mother and her sight. Now she is sent to live with great aunts and uncles she had no idea even existed.

This book starts out very promising as the reader struggles with Mandy and her new handicap but quickly becomes a let down despite a very unique twist with Mandy's past. The author seemed very despirate to get to the end and the book feels rushed with half developed plots and flat characters. The book leaves the reader asking more questions then were answered.

24selkie_girl
Jun 30, 2008, 3:28 pm

36.The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

Yet another Percy Jackson adventure. Riordan does a good job with character development and keeping the reader interested in the story. i'm looking foreward to the next in the series

37. The Swan Kingdom by Zoe Marriott

A retelling of The Wild Swans, a druid girl goes out to try to find her brothers that were transformed into swans. I was really hoping to like this book but it just left me wishing that there was more to it.

38. Dracula by Bram Stoker

Very good book, of course it would have to be, seeing as this is the grand daddy of all vampire fiction, but it had a lot of good aventure and kept me on the edge of my seat at parts. Sort of dragged along it some places but overall very good.

25selkie_girl
Aug 28, 2008, 9:55 am

39. Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
40. PS I Love you by Cecelia Ahern

July
41. Stolen Innocence by Elissa Walls
42. How I live now by
43. Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
44. Pillage by Obert Skye
45. One Good Knight by Mercedes Lackey
46. Sail by James Patterson
47. Bras and Broomsticks

August

48. Sex With Kings by
49. Wildwood Dancing
50. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
51. The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn
52. Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
53. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd