1. Liberty l *** (Garrison Keillor)
2. Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England o ****
3. The Thin Place o **** (She's coming to Alabama this academic year.)
4. A Month of Sundays l **** (Right after Updike died.)
5. Widows of Eastwick l **** (Ditto)
6. Online Retrieval o *** (For a class)
7. The Graveyard Book l **** (Gaiman's coming to Alabama, too)
8. The Small Public Library Survival Guide l *** (Again for a class)
9. Quiet, Please o **** (This book was for a class, but I enjoyed it nonetheless)
10. Introduction to Reference Work, Vol. 1 o **** (Actually this is well-written)
11. Captain Freedom o *** (I bought this at Square Books in Oxford, Miss.)
12. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn l ***** (Finally listened to it. A lot earthier than I thought it was going to be.)
13. Young Adult Literature in Action o **
14. Speak o *** (Required for the YA class)
15. Hogfather l **** (Pratchett's books are a lot of fun to listen to.)
16. What They Always Tell Us o *** (A very good debut; it's about Tuscaloosa teens)
17. Paper Towns l **** (I've become a fan of John Green; he really captures adolescent boys)
18. Nation l **** (More Pratchett)
19. Gospel According to Larry l ***
20. A Separate Peace l ***
21. Spud l **** (Hilarious book in diary form about a boy's school in South Africa in the early 1990s)
22. Twilight o *** (Yeah, well. It was required. Enough already with Edward being hot. We get it.)
23. Death on the Nile l **** (I enjoyed this even though I knew the ending.)
24. Vibes l **** (A really good teen novel)
25. Preposterous l ***
26. Fortune’s Folly l ****
27. On Beale Street l *** (We had visited Memphis in April, so I knew many of the places the author wrote about.)
28. Serving Older Teens l ***
29. Looking for Alaska l **** (Half-way point; more John Green)
30. The Lighthouse l **** (PD James is my favorite mystery author0
31. Real-Life Marketing and Promotion Strategies in College Libraries l **
32. All Together Dead l *** (I was curious about the whole Stackhouse thing)
33. The Boy Detective Fails l **** (This book is really good in a meaty, postmodern kind of way; very dream-like)
34. Thirteen Reasons Why l *** (Kind of cheats toward the end.)
35. Marketing and Promoting Electronic Resources l ***
36. Marketing the Academic Library: A bold new approach l ****
37. Slaughterhouse 5 l **** (Ethan Hawke does a good job reading this, and I had never read it, even as a teen.)
38. Villette o **** (I read this last Bronte novel as part of an online summer reading group led by Rohan Maitzen. It was a lot of fun and fulfilled my one-classic-a-year goal.)
39. Third-Class Superhero l ***
40. Electronic Reserves l **
41. Living With Saints o **** (This is where I began my personal challenge of reading books that had been on my shelf for a long time. I bought this book when it came out at Tower Books in Sacramento, one of my favorite bookstores. It was in a complex with the original Tower Records store, near the Tower movie theatre. Alas, it closed when Tower went under. I bought it because the author was living in Lawrence, Kan., where I lived in the early 1990s. It was a quick and fun read; every story relates to the life of a saint.)
42. Carry on, Jeeves l **** (Made car rides fun.)
43. Magistrum o **** (I had received this Matthew Hughes book for Christmas a couple of years ago. It was so good I immediately read the sequel, Spiral Labyrinth. They are great, short SF mysteries with a protagonist who is of two minds, literally -- one rational and one magical. I loved the satire of Canada in Magistrum.)
44. The Spiral Labyrinth o ****
45. House at Riverton o **** (I had been reading this off an on for a year; I finally sat down and finished it.)
46. The Known World l **** (This is fairly confusing listening in a car in short spurts, but the narrative voice is excellent.)
47. Heroes: Saving Charlie o ** (Ugh. Off my shelf now.)
48. The Calligrapher’s Daughter o **** (This is a brand-new book I received through Amazon Vines, but I'm counting it anyway.)
1 comment:
If I want to clear my shelves, I have to quit going to the library and I just can't bring myself to quit going! Happy reading.
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