I did better with the loot today, though I’m still in a reading slump (I’m reading, I’m just not loving anything I’m reading. It’s all kind of just meh.). I did stop by the Friends of the Library bookstore and picked up Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, both of which I can use for the 2010 challenge. But what I’m really excited about is this: ChocolateChocolate. Yes, it’s a chocolate cookbook. *swoon* Here’s hoping there’s some yummy recipes.

One question, though, to help me out of my slump: what’s the best book you’ve read recently??

As for the library loot:

Picture Books:
It’s Picture Day Today! , by Megan McDonald and Katherine Tillotson
Zarafa: The Giraffe Who Walked to the King, by Judith St. George/Illus. by Britt Spencer
Wink: The Ninja Who Wanted to be Noticed, by J.C. Phillipps
Ron’s Big Mission, by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden/Illus. by Don Tate
Shwatsit!, by Christin Ditchfield/Illus. by Rosalind Beardshaw
It’s a Secret, by John Burningham
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, by Mo Willems
The Old Woman and Her Pig: An Appalachian Folktale, retold by Margaret Read MacDonald/Illus. by John Kanzler

Middle Grade Fiction:
The Birthday Ball, by Lois Lowry

YA Fiction:
Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Runaway (Airhead), by Meg Cabot
Being Nikki (Airhead)
The Will Of The Empress, by Tamora Pierce
The Sorceress, by Michael Scott

The roundup is either at Adventures of an Intrepid Reader 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.