Not too many books this week for a couple of reasons. 1) Hubby’s out of town, and I generally spend my nights catching up on bad romantic comedies that he won’t sit through, which means less time for reading. (Though I have The Vicar of Dibley: A Wholly Happy Ending coming from Netflix, which excites me to no end. Richard Armitage… sigh…) And 2) I’m seriously trying to catch up with the pile that I already have on my bedside table. Not to mention the ones piled up on my shelves. And it always seems that the library books get read first…

This week’s loot:

Picture Books:
There Was an Old Lady, created by Jeremy Holmes
Odd Owls & Stout Pigs: A Book of Nonsense, by Arnold Lobel/color by Adrianne Lobel
Zarafa: The Giraffe Who Walked to the King, by Judith St. George/Illus. by Britt Spencer
Martha Says It With Flowers, Susan Meddaugh
Surprise Soup, Mary Rodman/Illus. by G. Brian Karas
The Enemy, by Davide Cali/Illus by Serge Bloch
My Little Polar Bear, by Claudia Rueda
Mystery Vine: A Pumpkin Surprise, by Cathryn Falwell

Non-Fiction books:
How to Get Rich in the California Gold Rush: An Adventurer’s Guide to the Fabulous Riches Discovered in 1848, by Tod Olson/Scott Allred/Marc Aronson
Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy, compiled and edited by Leonard S. Marcus

Middle Grade Fiction:
This Family Is Driving Me Crazy: Ten Stories About Surviving Your Family, edited by M. jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss

YA books:
Shine, Coconut Moon, by Neesha Meminger
Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover , by Ally Carter
The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen

The roundup is either at Reading Adventures or A Striped Armchair. Obligatory FTC note: the links are provided through my Amazon Associates account. If you click through and actually purchase one of these books, I’ll get a teeny, tiny payment. But, since no one ever does, and it’s SO much easier using the associates account to put up these links, I’m going to keep doing it.