So this is my pledge to myself to get back on track, and my reminder of what I've read in July.
I'll put it on Book Journey's weekly round-up of what everyone has read, is reading, and will read. Most of my selections are children's books, since that is the shelf on my unread-bookcase that I'm concentrating on, but I manage to read one or two other books as well. But it means I'll go add myself to Teach Mentor Texts as well, since they concentrate on kid books.
- Farewell to Manzanar
- Dr. Dolittle's Zoo
- The Other Side of Truth
- Penny Goes to Camp
- Fossil Identifier
- North Winds Blow Free
Earlier in July I also read:
- Seven Day Magic
- The Cheshire Cheese Cat
- Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
- Ring of Solomon
- Some Assembly Required
- The Case of the Deadly Desperados
- Parrot in the Oven: mi vida
- The Changeling Sea
- Dragonwings
- Delusions of Gender
- I Was a Rat!
- Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars
- The Moonlight Man
- Meet Samantha
- The Emerald City of Oz
- The Magic Meadow
- Carnelians
- The Slave Dancer
- Tempting Fate
- The Greek Gods
- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
- The Secret of the Indian
- The Secret Prince
- The Family From One End Street
- The Stranger Next Door
- Roscoe's Leap
What am I currently reading? I left some in-progress books at home during my gallivanting, and I cherry picked from my options to things I thought I'd enjoy.
- The Sharing Knife, Lois Bujold. I skipped my way through a reread of these four books. Mostly backwards.
- Dr Doolittle's Puddleby Adventures, Hugh Lofting. Yesterday's book.
- Redskin and Cowboy, G. A. Henty. I think I need a running start for this one, so I left the book mark in. I need to read it to catch up the days I missed.
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor. I thought it was due back so I started reading it, but then I renewed it and I had to read the stuff that really was due.
- Graceling, Kristin Cashore. For my book club. (reread)
- The Avion My Uncle Flew, Cyrus Fisher. A book from my shelves that I misplaced. Now I found it again.
- The Eye of the Warlock, P.W. Catanese. Another book from my shelves I didn't finish on time.
- Team Human, Sarah Rees Brennan & Justine Larbalestier. I'm liking it, but it gets pushed back by the books that are due.
- Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey. Online book club book. I'm late, but I renewed it.
- Buffy and the Heroine's Journey, Valerie Frankel. Present from librarything early readers.
- The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller. I found it! I should finish it.
- A few other things that I haven't been able to pick up for a few weeks.
Challenges:
- Cybils: 62/73. I finished off Middle Grade Fantasy, although I haven't reviewed them all.
- Global Reading Challenge: 13/21. Argh! I read a book in Africa, but it repeated a country. And I started a book that I thought was in South America, but it's clearly a North American island. Humph. I returned that disappointment to the library. My next tropical island that I thought was either South America, or failing that, Africa, is actually off the Indian coast. I don't thin it even counts for Oceanea.
- Where Am I Reading?: 31/50. Reviews are overrated. Michigan for the win! And I have a book set in Indiana in hand!
- Science Book Challenge: 2.141/3.14159. Delusions of Gender does qualify, although I should review it.
- Reading My Library: Pausing to get my library exposure under control.
- Eclectic Challenge: 10/12. No change.
- Best of the Best: 29/25. No rush anymore, but I'm still dipping into the lists.
- Summer Reading Goal: I'm four books behind, I think, but I hope to catch up. Harder than expected, but also more fun.
1 comment:
I think you're catching whatever slacker disease I contracted on vacation too. ;-)
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