Relatively Recent Reading: Apr-May 2011

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APRIL

(I think these...in some order...are all of the books I read in April. Somehow, I managed to delete the e-mail draft in which I'd listed all my reading, and I had to reconstruct April's list and the beginning of May's.)

• Button, Button: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson (205 pp.)
  stories: Button, Button / Girl of My Dreams / Dying Room Only / A Flourish of Strumpets / No Such Thing as a Vampire / Pattern for Survival / Mute / The Creeping Terror / Shock Wave / Clothes Make the Man / The Jazz Machine / 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly
  
  
• The Unwritten, Vol. 3: Dead Man's Knock by Mike Carey, with art by Peter Gross, et al. (graphic novel)
  
  
• Fables: Witches by Bill Willingham, with art by Mark Buckingham, et al. (graphic novel)
  
  
• A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic (294 pp.)
  first line: "I wasn't there. I didn't see it."
  
  
• Shimmer by Dallas Reed (~320 pp.)
  first line: "The refrigerator was empty, and Emma Driscoll groaned, because it meant she'd have to buy something from one of the vending machines at school."
  
  
• Alert! by Etienne Delessert (picture book)
  
  
• Full Color by Etienne Delessert (picture book)
  
  
• Who Killed Cock Robin?, illustrated by Etienne Delessert (picture book)
  
  
• Elfabet by Jane Yolen, with art by Lauren A. Mills (picture book)
  
  
• Strangehaven: Conspiracies by Gary Spencer Millidge (graphic novel)
  
  
• Animalia by Graeme Base (picture book)
  
  
• The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong (391 pp.)
  first line: "After four nights on the run, I was finally safe, tucked into bed and enjoying the deep, dreamless sleep of the dead...until the dead decided they'd rather have me awake."
  
  
• The Stuff of Legend, Book 1: The Dark by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith, with art by Charles Paul Wilson III (graphic novel)
  
  
• Trickster: Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection, ed. by Matt Dembecki
  stories: Coyote and the Pebbles / Raven the Trickster / Azban and the Crayfish / Trickster and the Great Chief / Horned Toad Lady and Coyote / Rabbit and the Tug-of-War / Moshup's Bridge / Rabbit's Chocktaw Tail Tale / The Wolf and the Mink / The Dangerous Beaver / Giddy Up, Wolfie / How the Alligator Got his Brown, Scaly Skin / The Yehasuri: The Little Wild Indians / Waynaboozhoo and the Geese / When Coyote Decided to Get Married / Puapualenalena, Wizard Dog of Waipi'o Valley / Ishjinki and Buzzard / The Bear Who Stole the Chinook / How Wildcat Caught a Turkey / Espun and Grandfather / Mai and the Cliff-Dwelling Birds

MAY

• The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit (graphic novel)
  
  
• The Radiation Sonnets: For My Love, in Sickness and in Health by Jane Yolen (90 pp.)
  
  
• Mother Goose: A Classic Collection of Children's Nursery Rhymes (picture book)
  
  
• Happiness Is a Good Duck: 239 Cartoons by Matthew Martin
  
  
• The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett (498 pp.)
  first line: "It was generally held knowledge among the people who lived on Whitward Street that the eldest of the three Miss Lockwells had a peculiar habit of reading while walking."
  
  
• The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance by Margaret Mahy (214 pp.)
  first line: "Although the label on the hair shampoo said Paris and had a picture of a beautiful girl with the Eiffel Tower behind her bare shoulder, it was forced to tell the truth in tiny print under the picture."
  
  
• Fables: Rose Red by Bill Willingham, with art by Mark Buckingham, et al. (graphic novel)
  
  
• The Stuff of Legend, Book 2: The Jungle by Mike Raicht and Brian Smith, with art by Charles Paul Wilson III (graphic novel)
  
  
• The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror, ed. by Sebastian Wolfe (124 pp.)
  first line (of the foreword): "The Little Book of Horrors? Tiny Tales of terror? I will be brief."
  
  
• The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland (275 pp.)
  first line: "A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age--regardless of how they look on the outside--pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives."