Books
Club Dead, Dead as a Doornail, Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Christopher’s Ghosts by Charles McCarry
Your Two Year Old: Terrible or Tender by Louise Bates Ames
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Sally Lockhart Quartet by Philip Pullman
Irish Trilogy by Nora Roberts
Manga & Graphic Novels
Sand Chronicles #5
Moon Child #1-3
Skip Beat #18
Two Flowers for the [...]

While stranded in Illinois with only one book that I don’t much feel like reading, I snagged Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart books from my little sister’s room and read them in a few days. The adventures of an atypical Victorian heroine in a gritty version of London were extremely entertaining.
The Ruby in the Smoke
The first [...]

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
This is what my YA book club is reading this month. Life as We Knew It is a harrowing and gripping story that details one family’s life after a meteor collides with the moon. It is written in diary format, as Miranda chronicles her daily life at [...]

Books
Need by Carrie Jones
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (reread)
A Song for Summer and The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson – More YA historical romances, set during WWII. Plenty of character-based humor. I’m glad these books are being reprinted.
Dead Until Dark, and Living [...]

Books about girls disguising themselves as men are fairly common in the YA fantasy genre, but Eon combines disguise, dragons, and a historic Asian setting to come up with an extremely readable novel. Eon is being raised as a boy by her master as one of the eleven candidates for the Rat Dragon. Dragons and [...]

Books
Spymaster’s Lady, My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne
Bollywood Posters by Jeremy Pinto and Sheena Sippy – Fabulous collection of posters, arranged by theme and year. It was interesting seeing the traditional painted posters contrasted with the ones that look more like the type of design you’d see coming out of Hollywood. The posters were [...]

Books
Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters
The Lost Duke of Wyndham and Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn
Compass Rose by Gail Dayton
Manga
Tail of the Moon #15 – Final volume! I thought it was cute that Usagi’s little girls are all grim ninjas just like their father.
Scott Pilgrim #5
Boys Over Flowers #34 – Right now I’m more [...]

Books
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willing – All of the books in this series are exactly the same, yet I still want to read them the minute they come out.
Cast in Fury by Michelle Sagara
Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins by Nancy L. Segal
Manga and Graphic Novels

Pixie 1
Luuna 1
Skip Beat 16 [...]

Books
Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Manga & Graphic novels
Boys Over Flowers #33
Venus in Love #5
Cross X Break #1
Crown #1
Togainu no Chi #1
Seimaden #1-5
Vagabond VizBig #2
Silver Diamond #2
Kyo Kara MAOH #2
Orange by Benjamin
Happy Hustle High #1, 2
Blank Slate #1
Otomen #1
Tail of the Moon #13
Mixed Vegetables #2
Momo Tama #1
Kekkaishi #1

I thought it was funny that this was published on Newsarama the same day I went to my knitting group and heard someone express concern about a 12 year old girl of their acquaintance being obsessed with the books. There’s a lot of assertions in the Newsarama post that aren’t backed up with any examples. [...]