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I've only read 71%, but almost all the others are ones I plan to read in the future....


100. The Egypt Game - Snyder (1967)
99. The Indian in the Cupboard - Banks (1980)
98. Children of Green Knowe - Boston (1954)
97. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - DiCamillo (2006)
96. The Witches - Dahl (1983)
95. Pippi Longstocking - Lindgren (1950)
94. Swallows and Amazons - Ransome (1930)
93. Caddie Woodlawn - Brink (1935)
92. Ella Enchanted - Levine (1997)
91. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Sachar (1978)

90. Sarah, Plain and Tall - MacLachlan (1985)
89. Ramona and Her Father - Cleary (1977)
88. The High King - Alexander (1968)
87. The View from Saturday - Konigsburg (1996)
86. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Rowling (1999)
85. On the Banks of Plum Creek - Wilder (1937)
84. The Little White Horse - Goudge (1946)
83. The Thief - Turner (1997)
82. The Book of Three - Alexander (1964)
81. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Lin (2009)

80. The Graveyard Book - Gaiman (2008)
79. All-of-a-Kind-Family - Taylor (1951)
78. Johnny Tremain - Forbes (1943)
77. The City of Ember - DuPrau (2003)
76. Out of the Dust - Hesse (1997)
75. Love That Dog - Creech (2001)
74. The Borrowers - Norton (1953)
73. My Side of the Mountain - George (1959)
72. My Father's Dragon - Gannett (1948)
71. The Bad Beginning - Snicket (1999)

70. Betsy-Tacy - Lovelae (1940)
69. The Mysterious Benedict Society - Stewart ( 2007)
68. Walk Two Moons - Creech (1994)
67. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher - Coville (1991)
66. Henry Huggins - Cleary (1950)
65. Ballet Shoes - Stratfeild (1936)
64. A Long Way from Chicago - Peck (1998)
63. Gone-Away Lake - Enright (1957)
62. The Secret of the Old Clock - Keene (1959)
61. Stargirl - Spinelli (2000)

60. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi (1990)
59. Inkheart - Funke (2003)
58. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Aiken (1962)
57. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Cleary (1981)
56. Number the Stars - Lowry (1989)
55. The Great Gilly Hopkins - Paterson (1978)
54. The BFG - Dahl (1982)
53. Wind in the Willows - Grahame (1908)
52. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007)
51. The Saturdays - Enright (1941)

50. Island of the Blue Dolphins - O'Dell (1960)
49. Frindle - Clements (1996)
48. The Penderwicks - Birdsall (2

Thanks to Christy for tagging me!

Tell me about the book that has been on your shelf the longest...

Fritz and the Beautiful Horses by by Jan Brett....I've had it ever since I was quite little.

Tell me about a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (i.e. a person, a place, a time, etc.)...

The Redwall series will always remind me of the full-blown obsession my friend Kelsie and I had with those books.

Tell me about a book you acquired in some interesting way (gift, serendipity in a used book store, prize, etc.)...

The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, required during a day of bookstore-hopping in Hay-on-Wye, England.

Another that comes to mind is Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, because it was the first ARC I was ever sent for review....a few years ago, now.

Tell me about the most recent addition to your shelves...

Sebastian Darke: Prince of Pirates and The Beef Princess of Practical County both came in the mail yesterday, curtesy of ze publisher.

Tell me about a book that has been with you to the most places...

The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty--my travel-read. (I take it on every trip.)

Tell me about a bonus book that doesn't fit any of the above questions...

Hm...well, I will just give a shout-out to Sorcery and Cecilia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, a book I recently reread for the first time in a few years and had just as much fun with it the second time around.


I tag...Enna Isilee, Q, and Holly Cupala.

I went to a library book sale today . . . one bag of books for $1. Score!

(I had fun looking through my uncle's The Quotable Lewis.)

"There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-conscious memories it brings back."

"When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with some one else--even though it sometimes produces rather fierce arguments."

[Speaking of Faerie Queene:] "It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it--and that to my mind is one of the best tests."

"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he 'has read' them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?"

"We must attack the enemy's line of communication. What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."

~C. S. Lewis

This is Anya (left) and Emma (right). They are cousins, and their parents are all in Fiddler on the Roof, so they (and often a bunch of their siblings) come along with to rehearsals.

Last night I was talking to them (they are cute, polite, and full. of. energy.) and Anya looked up at me and said, "What kind of freak are you?" I blinked. She continued, "I'm a reading freak!"

I laughed, then, and said, "I'm a reading freak, too." I asked Emma if she was, and she said no. "I like to read, but I'm a LOUD freak!"

Anya said, "Yeah, she's the loud freak, but I'm also a NOISY freak!"

They went on like that for awhile, talking about what kind of freaks they were. But it was fun to meet a fellow reading freak. ;)

Hooray for BOOKS and people who love them!

Taken from Booked Out.
What: Top twenty favourite books in no particular order. Don’t think about it for too long. Take twenty minutes only to compile your list. Bold the ones you’ve read, or reread, since you’ve started blogging. Include novels, non fiction and plays.

I did my list in five minutes. I'm sure there's some I left out . . . but here's what I came up with.

Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter
Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt
Sorcery and Cecilia by Patricia C. Wrede
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Loose Threads by Lorie Ann Grover
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (etc.) by J.K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Kiki Strike by Kirsten Miller
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Queen of Attolia by Meghan Whalen Turner
The Witches by Roald Dahl

Try it yourself! Don't think, just type.

Thank you all for the nice get well comments on my last post. They made me smile. :) I think I'm on the mend; I'm mostly just exhausted now with my still cold lingering.

Yesterday I read Cassie Was Here by Caroline Hickey. Now I'm beginning/in the middle of three books:

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing) by Alison McGhee
The Boggart by Susan Cooper

So, I want to know, what are you reading right now?

I have been sick for the past six days. The first day or two I couldn't really read because I felt so awful. Since then I've managed a few light books that are easy on the brain:

The Nixie's Song by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
No Cream Puffs by Karen Day
Trial by Journal by Katie Klise
Elvis and Olive by Stephanie Watson

I have also watched a movie and some TV episodes. And watched my brother play Super Mario Galaxy on our Wii.

Mom just started reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz out loud to me. So far it's really good and funny.

But mostly I have just been sitting on the couch feeling miserable.

I thought it was common knowledge that cowboys only wear Wrangler jeans.

Apparently the NYT only just got the memo last week.

Still, their survey of the history of Wrangler jeans is interesting; I still find it amazing that a garment that was once both ulitatarian and low-class has now become a uniform. I was recently in downtown Chicago, and I stood on a street counter and counted the number of people who walked crossed the street during the green light NOT wearing jeans. Of about forty people, the non-jeans tally was three.

I hate jeans, and I never wear them. There are no jeans in Califa, because it's my made-up world and I hate jeans. I'd rather wear a corset than wear jeans--a corset is more comfortable. I understand that if you are driving cattle, or riding bulls that jeans probably offer the best comfort and protection. But I am not driving cattle, nor riding bulls, nor are most of the people I see wearing jeans. I think for jeans to look good they require a certain type of figure--the male figure. Girls who are built like men (or twelve year old boys) look fine in jeans. A woman not built like a man (or a twelve year old boy) looks terrible in jeans. Ladies, invest in a nice linen skirt and throw off your denim shackles! Unless, of course, you are driving cattle or riding bulls, in which case I say: by all means, wear jeans. Just make sure you cowboy up and wear Wranglers.

(Also--please don't tuck your jeans into your boots. Where I come from that's a hanging offense.)