Monday, June 1, 2009

What I read in May + Puppy Pic

I was thinking this might be a slow month, as I've been visiting family for two weeks and have been pretty busy. But I managed to read 21 books, which I think is pretty respectable. I read some really great books this month, so be sure and check out my reviews, linked from the book titles. Reviews for titles without links will be posting next month. Here's what I read this month:

84. Sea Changes - Gail Graham
85. The Beekeeper's Apprentice- Laurie R. King
86. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
87. The Final Warning - James Patterson
88. The Fifth Vial - Michael Palmer
89. Peony in Love - Lisa See
90. Fire - Kristin Cashore (ARC)
91. Wake - Lisa McMann
92. The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
93. Face of Betrayal - Lis Wiehl
94. Your Best Birth - Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein
95. Fire at Midnight - Lisa Marie Wilkinson
96. The Wheel of Darkness - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
97. Unplugged - Lois Greiman
98. Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
99. Tatsea - Armin Wiebe
100. The Prairie Bridesmaid - Daria Salamon (100 books!! woohoo!)
101. Paper Towns - John Green
102. Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock
103. The Big Love - Sarah Dunn
104. Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
105. My Best Friend's Girl - Dorothy Koomson

Books read previously that I reviewed this month:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Foul Play - Tori Carrington
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports - James Patterson
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Stolen Innocence - Elissa Wall

I also posted several giveaways this month. You can win:
1. An audiobook of Cemetary Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
2. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos.
3. Sea Changes by Gail Graham
4. Your choice of one of the great books in my Clean Out the Bookbox giveaway.

Incidentally, this is my 102nd post! Wow! That includes just over 50 reviews posted in about two months. I am not usually great at sticking with things, but I am loving this! So far my most popular post (other than memes and giveaways) is a tie between my Slightly Off Topic post on look-alike book covers (watch for another batch coming up June 6) and my introduction to my puppy (who has now been named Indy, as in Jones, not 500). Here's a picture of him and his sibs having their first puppy baby food (Indy is the reddish one in the lower right corner):Anyway, thanks for reading my blog! The interaction with all of you is what really makes this worthwhile for me.

3 comments:

lifeafterjane said...

Congrats on post #102. This is such a great blog. Your reviews are excellent and I love all the discussion posts. They make me use my brain while I drink my morning coffee. Thank you!

katie said...

All of those puppies are so cute. Congratulations on you 102 post! You read a lot of books this month!

Amanda said...

O he's so cute! I love his color! Please keep posting photos of your pup. Too cute :)