1. His Favorites by Kate Walbert F 1-6
2. Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan YA 1-14
3. The Second Life of Ava Rivers by Faith Gardner YA 1-16
4. Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski J 1-17
5. Arab in America by Toufic El Rassi GN 1-18
6. Toil and Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft ed by Jessica Spotswood YA/SS 1-22 ( Read more... )

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney JF 1-3
2. Forget Me by K. A. Harrington YA 1-4
3. Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown GN 1-7
4. Doomboy by Tony Sandoval GN 1-7
5. Ms Marval: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson GN 1-17
6. The Moth: 50 True Stories ed by Catherine Burns SS 1-18
7. Noggin by Corey Whaley YA 1-19
8. ( Read more... )

I'm in my 3rd year on the Louisiana Teen Reader's Choice Award Committee, so yet again, there are a lot of young adult titles on here ( Read more... )

I keep these lists for work, and they are invaluable to me. And I like to share, so here you are.
I work with YA materials, and this fall was placed on the Young Readers Teen Chice Award committee for the next three years, so there are a lot of YA titles on here, and next year will be even more saturated.
Anyway:
hyperlinked: favorites
bold: really ( Read more... )

Key:
Hyperlinked: top rated -- books that I loved for various reasons. They could be great literature, or they could be total brain crack. But I loved them.
Bold: second rated. Worth a read -- very good, but not AMAZING.
Plain: third rated. Not a waste of time, by any means, but not something I would recommend on a wide basis.
Undelined: don't bother

F ( Read more... )

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so I get a text from a # I don't know. This is what happens.

Unknown Number: whats up
ME: who is this?
Money
huh. i think maybe you have the wrong #, Money.
No you gave me yournumber but i went to gail
so where do i know you from? not jail, i guess, since this was before that.
I Thank you live in the 8
maybe. what do you look like?
Do you want to go out an ( Read more... )

2/25 ( Read more... )

11/19
IN: Haha maybe he could be friends with the dumpster kitties? I'll leave a half chicken in there for him once a week.

11/22
DAMN, I wish I could remember my out message that inspired this.. but: IN: Yeah with less meth and bar fights.

11/28
IN: A drunk person upset about their birthday is not fun

12/11
IN (after a quick convo of the British TV  ( Read more... )

SO yeah, I read a lot of books again this year.... I did a lot of graphic novel ordering for NOPL, and hence, read a lot of them, which obv adds to the high number.
Those with * next to their numbers have a mini-review or other comments noted at the bottom.

The ratings:
hyperlinked: my favorites. This may or may not speak to its literary merit. If I ( Read more... )