72. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread, Kate DiCamillo.

73. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories, Emma Donoghue. Donoghue is quite a storyteller. This collection of stories is based on actual obscure(ish) news stories, and it's engaging and surprising.

74. The Annotated Secret ( Read more... )

69. My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park, Steve Kluger.

70. War for the Oaks, Emma Bull.

71. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Simon Winchester. I bought this book a couple of years ago. I started it no less than three times but never finished. I started it again just ( Read more... )

65. Emily Climbs, L.M. Montgomery (reread).

66. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray. I kind of liked it, but am kind of wary of getting into a trilogy that is potentially badly pulled together and overly-derivative to the point that it's not properly balanced out by the fun of private school cliquery and secret orders and secret realms and ( Read more... )

60. The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen. I loved Garden Spells, so I read this. I liked it almost as much.
61. The Prestige, Christopher Priest. At first, I didn't think this was as good as the movie. And then I did. I don't think it's better, though.
62. The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling.
63. ( Read more... )

55. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard. Fairly interesting, but ultimately uneven, post-apocalyptic sci-fi. I found myself alternately captivated and bored. I enjoyed it while I read it, but I wouldn't read it again.

56. Ozma of Oz, L. Frank Baum (reread). I said in my last book post that I wasn't going to read any more Oz books, but it's very ( Read more... )

Yikes! I haven't done one of these things in almost two months!

44. Dream Angus, Alexander McCall Smith.
45. The Annotated Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery. I've read the novel before, of course, but I had a ton of fun reading the textual notes and accompanying essays.
46. Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery (reread). I reread the Anne books ( Read more... )

39. The Blue Girl, Charles de Lint.
40. Oryx & Crake, Margaret Atwood.
41. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier.
42. Into the Woods, Lyn Gardner with illustrations by Mini Grey.
43. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (reread).

I loved all of these books in very different ways. At first I thought Rebecca was just like the movie, but by the end I ( Read more... )

37. Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer.
38. Ready Or Not: An All-American Girl Novel, Meg Cabot.

Woot! Fluff!

I'm currently reading The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint. Next up: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake. Probably.

28. Love Marriage, V.V. Ganeshanathan
29. The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis (reread)
30. The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis (reread)
31. The Magician's Nephew, C.S. Lewis (reread)
32. The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis (reread)
33. Batman: Year One, Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (Illustrator) (reread)
34. All-American Girl, Meg Cabot
35. Twilight, ( Read more... )

25. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Amy Tan.
26. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis (re-read).
27. Mr. Pip, Lloyd Jones.
28. Atonement, Ian McEwan ( Read more... )