November in Review: 11/30/10
While the ratings were more spread out than in previous months, I had no
one star books. That means I didn't have to abandon any books! While the vast majority of my books were from the library, I read more from my personal collection than I have in recent months.
I read thirty-seven books which I now need to review. In terms of my ROOB score, I've had my best month of reading from my personal collection since July. My score is down to -2.54.
Books reviewed this month
Rating out of 5 stars (as posted on GoodReads)
Five Star books:
- The Fairy Princess by Dennis Danvers (personal collection)
- Hell of a Fix by Matthew Hughes (personal collection)
- How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell (library book)
- The Real Martian Chronicles by John Sladek (personal collection)
- San Francisco Then and Now by Bill Yenne (library book)
- Strange But True America by John Hafnor (review copy)
- Sugar Would Not Eat It by Emily Jenkins (library book)
Four Star books
- Amor Fugit by Alexandra Duncan (library book)
- City Makers by Remi A. Nadeau (personal collection)
- Cowboy and Octopus by Jon Scieszka (library book)
- Crow Call by Lois Lowry (library book)
- I Miss You Everyday by Simms Taback (library book)
- Inside Job by Connie Willis (library book)
- King & King by Linda de Haan (library book)
- ttyl by Lauren Myracle (library book)
- Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin (library book)
- The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (personal collection)
Three Star books
- The Broken Ear by Georges Remi Hergé (library book)
- The Department of Mad Scientists by Michael Belfiore (library book)
- Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (personal collection)
- The Light, The Dark and Ember Between by J.W. Nicklaus (review copy)
- Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House #5) by Mary Pope Osborne (personal collection)
- Singer of Souls by Adam Stemple (library book)
Two Star books
- Babymouse: The Musical by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (library book)
- Ground Truth edited by John Pickles (library book)
- Monsters on Machines by Deb Lund (library book)
- Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Brooks Wallace (library book)
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen (personal collection)
- Selfless by David Michael Slater (review copy)
One Star books
Books and stories read this month (reviews coming)
Personal Collection
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
- The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson
- Foundations of Library and Information Science by Richard Rubin
- Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design Practice by Anna Gerber
- Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval by G. G. Chowdhury
- Library Blogging by Karen A. Coombs
- Pinkalicious: Tickled Pink by Elizabeth Kann
- A Thief of Time (Navajo Mysteries, #8) by Tony Hillerman
- The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Library book
- The Academic Library and the Net Gen Student by Susan Gibbons
- And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails by Wayne Curtis
- Around the World With Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
- Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide by Michael P. Sauer
- Brain Camp by Susan Kim
- City of Spies by Susan Kim
- Curious George Learns to Count from 1 to 100 by H. A. Rey
- Filipinos in Alaska, 1788-1958 by Thelma Buchholdt
- A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
- Flotsam by David Wiesner
- Foiled by Jane Yolen
- Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 by Eric Wight
- Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture by
Harry Skrdla
- The Green Ripper by John D. McDonald
- Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent
- Magpie Magic: A Tale of Colorful Mischief by April Wilson
- Monster Hunt by Rory Storm
- The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater
- Northern California Off the Beaten Path by Maxine Cass
- The Octonauts and the Sea of Shade by Meomi
- Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
- Round Like a Ball by Lisa Campbell Ernst
- Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online by Meredith G. Farkas
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman (audio version read by the author)
- Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries: Librarians and Educators in Second Life and Other Multi-User Virtual Environments edited by Lori Bell
- We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs by Paul Bausch
Review copy
- Once Wicked Always Dead by T. Marie Benchley
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