I have a new feature over on The Bureau Chiefs where I examine YA books with adult appeal. The first article looks at Heist Society by Ally Carter.

You can check out what I’m reading On the Bureau Chiefs’ Nightstand

This month was a little bit on the light side for me. Books A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen Dream Trilogy by Nora Roberts Manga Natsume’s Book of Friends #1 Alice in the Country of Hearts #2 Haru Hana: The Complete Collection Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee #1, 2 Nana #20 Sand Chronicles #7 Vagabond #6 [...]

Books Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold Up in Smoke by Katie MacAlister The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner – loved this book, am working on the sequel now. Sweethearts by Sara Zarr – selection for my YA book club this month. Set in SLC so reading about some of the local landmarks was amusing. [...]

Is it a rule that every blogger gets a book deal at some point? As part of the large writing team behind the FakeAPStyleBook twitter feed, I now have a book to work on. The title is undetermined but it will be published in spring 2011 by Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House. [...]

So this year I read 68 books and 219 manga and graphic novels. This is up a bit from last year’s totals. For books I tended to read a lot of easy mysteries, romances, and fantasy novels. I read through all of the Sookie Stackhouse books that are in paperback and I really enjoyed Kate [...]

Books 12 Kingdoms 2 and 12 Kingdoms 3 by Fuyumi Ono Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold – I’ve been meaning to read more Bujold after finishing the first three Sharing Knife books. The Broken Vessel By Kate Ross – Now I’ve read all the Julian Kestrel mysteries! Soulless By [...]

Twelve Kingdoms Volume 3: The Vast Spread of the Seas by Fuyumi Ono The Twelve Kingdoms books are the only series of light novels that I follow with great enthusiasm. I like the Twelve Kingdoms anime quite a bit, but since the story didn’t conclude in the anime so I look to the novels to [...]

I forgot to keep track of my September reading, so some of this is a half-remembered reconstruction: Books The Julian Kestrel Mysteries – Sometimes it is a little sad to stumble across a series of books written by an author who is no longer living. Once you’ve finished the series, you’re left without the happy [...]

The nomination form for the Cybils is now open. They’ve improved their nomination process – instead of listing everything in the comments section of a blog post, there’s a nomination form and you can check to see what’s been nominated online. Here are the current nominations in the graphic novel category.