I feel like the first half of 2012 has passed in the blink of an eye.
Maybe that's because I've been spending so much time revising and reading?
Anyway, in May I read:
The Time It Snowed In Puerto Rico
The Wilding
(and that's when I finally read all the books on my literal TBR shelf!)
Jellicoe Road
Insurgent (I'll be posting about Insurgent tomorrow as part of the YA Book Club)
And now I'm reading the unbecoming of mara dyer. Love its voice and general creepy vibe so far.
What about you?
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Ooh, Jellicoe Road is one of my favorites!
In May I read:
Past Perfect
North of Beautiful
One for the Money
When You Were Mine
The Things A Brother Knows
Perfect Chemistry
The Outsiders
A Midsummer's Nightmare (galley)
Pieces of Us
The Disenchantments
Firefly Lane
Stay
The Fortunes of Indigo Sky
I read: Insurgent, The Selection, Awake: A Fairytale, What a Boy Wants, Flat-Out Love, Cross My Heart, Grave Mercy, A Breath of Eyre, and I'm currently finishing up To Kill a Mockingbird. I honestly don't know why it's taken me so long to read the latter. Silly me.
I think I'm going to take a cue from you this summer, and I'm going to challenge myself to read the books that are already cluttering my shelves instead of buying more and more new ones. I might still buy the odd new book, but I need to address the multitude of already-haves around here. :)
I read Insurgent too this month. So good! I have The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer on my list as well.
I'm still reading Mal Peet's Tamar and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Next up is Louis Couperus's Eline Vere. I also read Jillian Larkin's Vixen, and was pretty disappointed at how it was like Gossip Girl in period clothes, not much of a well-incorporated sense of being set in the 1920s. I'll probably read the other two books in the trilogy, though I'm not expecting literary masterpieces or great historical fiction.
I read:
1. Lights on a Ground of Darkness by Ted Kooser
2. Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
3. Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
4. The Pursuit of Lucy Banning by Olivia Newport
5. The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
6. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
7. I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Right now I'm reading Mariah Fredericks' The Girl in the Park. What I need to be reading is some middle grade stuff. I have an idea that doesn't seem to fit in YA, but I haven't read middle grade in years and need to do some research.
I really want to read WHY WE BROKE UP!
For MG, I recommend WHEN YOU REACH ME, PROMISE THE NIGHT, and SPARROW ROAD. Great books.
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