I noticed recently that I've only ever mentioned one book here. This is disturbing to me simply because of the sheer number of books I read not to mention how much of an impact the exceptionally good ones have had on my life. I love books. I have for as long as I can remember. I like to joke that I've been reading since conception but seriously, I've been reading books for a really long time. Robert Munsch, to this day, is my favorite children's author. I still adore Ramona the Pest and Ramona, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary. I never really got into the Babysitters Club or Goosebumps as a kid but I did read some of the Metamorphosis books if anyone remembers those. Also, Judy Blume. I remember writing a lot of book reports from Judy Blume books. I was really into books about the Titanic and the Holocaust as a kid both of which are kind of weighty material for a third grader now that I think of it. OH! The Hatchet, that's one that sticks out in my mind from the elementary school years. We read that one in Library class (yeah, we had that. Definitely was one of my favorites). The first three Harry Potter books were a major impact in my childhood. I grew slightly bored with Harry Potter after that until the third movie came out when I read books 4 and 5 in 9 hours with a sammich break between them. Yeah. Then I picked up The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit followed quickly by The Chronicles of Narnia twice in a week and around this time people began to think it weird when I didn't have a for fun book on top of my school books.
My point is, I'm an avid book reader. Most of my Christmas list each year is books or money for books. I get Barnes & Noble and/or Amazon gift cards for my birthday and Easter.
So, now that I've got that out of the way, I'm going to introduce an idea. There's one girl on YouTube that I really like and I even follow her blog. Her name is Kristina Horner and I'm following her on here so you should check her out, too. Well, on her blog she tracks things at the end of each post like flights taken this year or her WoW levels and stuff like that. I'm going to be a copycat. I've decided to track the books I'm reading/have read this year at the bottom of my posts.
"every question you took the
time to sit and look it up in the
encyclopedia" ~ Airplanes by Local Natives
It is going through my head and I love it!
^Random side note ^
That's all for today and to steal the closing line from pottercast, keep each other safe and keep faith. :)
The Reading List:
After by Amy Efaw
Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin
The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
Forever by Judy Blume
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro
Lady Macbeth's Daughter by Lisa Klein
Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakely Cartwright
Jay's Journal by Anonymous (A companion diary to Go Ask Alice)
Intrigues by Mercedes Lackey
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
68 Knots by Michael Robert Evans
Red: The Next Generation of American Writers - Teenage Girls - On What Fires Up Their Lives Today edited by Amy Goldwasser
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
I've got to disagree and say that A.A. Milne is the greatest writer of children's literature. Then again, I have not read very much children's literature.
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