Monday Arm Strain: Challenges, Challenges

Time to descend on our library again.  I've decided to try to read all the Cybils Shortlist books, as per Melissa Wiley's challenge, so most of my haul deals with that, all neatly stacked for me on the hold shelf.  I also grabbed a few picture books and some music for the car, but with new library cards for the boys I ducked adding the pile of videos to my count.

I got from the hold shelf:

Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams, a book for my Michigan challenge, which seems to be an anthology. 

Borrowed Names, Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C J Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters (Cybils, Poetry)

Bones (Cybils, nonfiction picture book)

The Dark Game: True Crime Stories (Cybils, nonfiction MG/YA)

Because of Mr. Terupt (Cybils, Middle Grade novel)

Ghostopolis, (Cybils, YA graphic novel)

 Athena, Gray-Eyed Goddess (Cybils, middle-grade graphic novel)

A Beach Tail (Cybils, fiction picture book)

Brain Jack (Cybils, YA SFF)

The Call (Cybils, Middle-grade SFF)

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies (Cybils, Early Readers & Chapter Books, which I can't tell if this is one category or two)

The House of the Stag, because I loved Kage Baker's Anvil of the World so much

3 Yu-Gi-Oh books, but the next set will definitely be requested on X's card, so I'm not even counting these

I then looked at the new picture books until two of them fell into my hands:

• Calvin Can't Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie, because I'm a sucker for books about book lovers
• Monsters Eat Whiny Children, because I like reading books about annoying children getting their come-uppance
• And I got 4 CDs to listen to in the car.

This puts my total at 45, which is within three of my age and still includes 4 Yu-Gi-Ohs, so I'm declaring victory.  I'm off to sign up for Library Loot, the weekly chance for us library types to compare our catch.  This weekly event is hosted by either Claire from The Captive Reader  (this weeks host) or Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader.

ETA: Oh, I'm still on track for the comment challenge.