100 books in a year

[ettegoom]

Books read 2011 18 Books started but not completed for various reasons are not counted, naturally!

The boy who ate stars: Kochka (Translated by Sarah Adams)
A delightful book about a young girl getting to know and trying to understand an autistic boy.  Really sweet - Recommend!

And this is true: Emily Mackie
A WEIRD book about a boy coming to terms with some catastrophic changes in his life.  Brilliantly written, big on the mind fuck, but totally worth reading.

A rare interest in corpses: Ann Granger
A sweet wee murder mystery set in Victorian London, with a female heroine.  Cute.

Comments

[ettegoom]

Oh, did I stuff up the maths? That isn't really my strong point.

I generally prefer to read fantasy or science fiction, but in general I'll read anything really :-)

[sweet_sparrow]

Nor mine! I screw it up nine times out of ten. But something went wrong somewhere, yes. You went from having read 15 books to having read 14.

Mmm... Me too. I'm trying to expand my YA library a little to include more non-fantasy, though.

Are you enjoying the library access you've discovered?

[ettegoom]

I've fixed it now (I think). It is because the wee box with the tally is an HTML that I have saved and I didn't update it after the last post - and I also seem to have miscounted somewhere else also. I've gotten a little lost actually.

The best YA fantasy series though: Garth Nix - Abhorsen Trilogy, D.M. Cornish - Monster Blood Tattoo and Jonathan Stroud - Bartimaeus books.

I need to read less fantasy also, but I'm back at work now, so won't be trying my hand at anything too dense for 10 weeks. I like historical fiction also - you should read The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (totally wicked!!!)

I am enjoying the library - the central city library is abysmal and the other library that I used to frequent was too far away, but this one is right next to my supermarket and they don't charge to bring books in from other libraries either - so it works really well! :-)

[sweet_sparrow]

Eep! I hope you can get it sorted! Would it be an idea to keep a numbered record of the books somewhere? Like a spreadsheet or a numbered masterlist?

I've only tried the Nix of those. I'm pretty happy with my fantasy/non-fantasy ratio, but I lend out my books to my tutoring students when they have reading assignments and they tend to dislike fantasy books. :(

I do not blame you for shying away from the dense! Any books you're looking forward to reading?

Oooh. I like your library... I've no idea how ours does on inter-library loans. Ours is the biggest in the area, so if they don't have it the other libraries never did either. (I wish they'd pair up with even bigger libraries, though...) I long for wonderful libraries like yours sounds... And such a convenient spot for the library to be too!

[ettegoom]

I think I've got it sorted now... although that spreadsheet idea sounds like a good one - then I won't forget if I put books back on my shelf or have to take them back to the library.

The Auckland library system is pretty good - so I am certainly thankful about it.

You read White Boots? I have a bunch of Children's classics that I am getting rid of at the moment because I might be moving at the end of the year - if you mail me your address, I could send you them - white boots, ballet shoes, little princess and some other oddities if you would like them for your students.

[sweet_sparrow]

Yay! I hope the spreadsheet idea will prove useful. ^-^

Awww, thank you for offering, but I'm afraid those'd be vetoed by their teachers and/or would be available in the school library already. :( I've had most luck with contemporary realistic YA. Their topics match the Dutch books 'my kids' do have easy access to and already enjoy reading.

I read White Boots a few days ago, actually! It was lovely!