So I’m a couple days late on this! It’s due to a lot of things, mostly this past week being exhausting. The family had to make a quick trip out of town and then I came back to three back-to-back events. I did my first non-author event at schools — the Roald Dahl Splendiferous Spectacular Bus Tour — which was both different (I felt mostly useless, since the actors had their program down to the last detail) and fun (the program really was a lot of fun to watch). And then two authors — Leigh Bardugo (with Ally Carter) who was amazing (I wish more people had come. She deserves HUGE crowds) and Ben Hatke, who I swear is an elf.

And that doesn’t even begin to cover it.

My favorite for this month?

Leave Me

I’m just sad I didn’t get to see her when she came (last week!).

As for the others…

Adult:

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Graphic Novel

Ghosts

YA:

Kids of Appetite
Thieving Weasels
Replica
Spontaneous

Middle Grade

    

Nine, Ten
Best Man
The Secret Keepers
Gertie’s Leap to Greatness
Framed: A T.O.A.S.T Mystery

What were your favorites this month?

So, I’m sitting down, here at the end of August, and I’m thinking to myself: what have I gotten myself into? See, starting on Tuesday, I’ve got two months of nearly non-stop author events, and school visits, not to mention a conference and a literacy festival. I’m thinking that we’ll see just how much reading gets done… it’s also a good thing I’ve blogged ahead a bit for September. But if I suddenly disappear, you’ll know why. The author event gods ate me.

My favorite was one for the on-line book group:

The Piper’s Son

I’d never read Marchetta’s realistic fiction before. I was missing out, people. I need to read her others now. SO good.

As for the rest:

YA

The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Monsters of Men

Middle Grade

Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Trouble with Twins
The Adventurer’s Guide to Successful Escapes

Graphic Novels

Mighty Jack

Adult Fiction

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Non Fiction

Textbook

What were some of your favorites this month?

It’s been a month of preparations. Spending every spare minute, planning and then putting those plans into motion. And, on top of that, it’s been high summer, with days at the pool, and the garden ripening, and just being so, so very lazy.

I love this time of year. So: my favorite this month?

With Malice

So, so very good.  And a good adult crossover, too; I sold it to one of our regular customers who was fed up with the extra blather in adult fiction. She loved it as well, which made me very happy.

As for the rest:

Middle Grade

The BFG
Towers Falling
The Witches
The Twits

Adult Fiction

A Gathering of Shadows
Smoke
The Magicians (DNF)
And Then There Were None
Another Brooklyn

YA:

And I Darken
The Ask and the Answer

What were your favorites this month?

I meant to put this up a couple days ago, but like many things these days, it slipped my mind. Better late than never, I suppose. My favorite for the month was this one:

Ms. Bixby’s Last Day

Such a good middle grade novel. One of my favorites this year.

As for the rest:

YA:

 

The Museum of Heartbreak
Summer Days and Summer Nights
Outrun the Moon
If I Was Your Girl
The Knife of Never Letting Go

Middle Grade:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
When Friendship Followed Me Home
Matilda

Graphic Novel

Unicorns vs. Goblins

Adult Fiction:

The Last Original Wife (audio book)
A Hundred Thousand Worlds

What were some of your favorites this month?

It’s been a good reading month (note the lack of grown-up books…). I did get a lot read, and even though my piles are growing bigger every day (I need a time turner!), I don’t feel overly hopeless about it all. Maybe that has something to do with my favorite book this month:

The Shepherd’s Crown

I loved it, and I think it’s the perfect ending. Really. Not that there wasn’t a number of great books this month. There were. My heart just belongs to Tiffany Aching.

As for the rest:

YA:

Six of Crows (audio book)
The Haters (DNF)
Genius: The Game
The Hidden Oracle
Written in the Stars
You Know Me Well
The Last Star

Middle Grade:

Counting Thyme
Nothing Up My Sleeve

Graphic Novel:

Lumberjanes, vol 2 and 3
Ms. Marvel, vol 2

Adult:

Maestra (DNF)

What were your favorites this month?

It was a crazy month; lots of drama around the house, and I really don’t think I’m reading as much as I used to. Times and seasons, no? That said, I did read some, and my favorite (no surprise), was this one:

Raven King

It was such a great ending to a fantastic series.

Oh, and a couple of pics from the event last night:

And after:

And what I ended up writing on the car cover:

She was amazing. That’s really not overstating it.

As for the others…

Middle Grade:

Raymie Nightingale
The Terrible Two Get Worse
It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel

Young Adult:

The Winner’s Kiss
Love & Gelato
Wolf Hollow

Non-Fiction:

Furiously Happy (audio book)
Quiet Power

Graphic Novel:

Phoebe and Her Unicorn
Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy

What were your favorites this month?

It was a Middle Grade month, one in which I snuck books in between the cracks. I made some headway on KidlitCon, with a great logo, designed by Sarah Stevenson, a date — October 14-15 — and a hotel. Stay tuned, because we’ve got a registration form coming soon! (It’s work, but it’s manageable so far, much to my surprise!)

My favorite this month was (and is; I keep gushing about it to people at work):

Rebel of the Sands

So. Good.

As for the rest:

YA

Tell Me Three Things

Adult Fiction:

Driving Heat
A Darker Shade of Magic
A Bollywood Affair (audio book)

Middle Grade:

The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
Spirit Week Showdown
The Wild Robot
Completely Clementine
Booked
Hour of the Bees
Allie, First at Last

What was your favorite this month?

Somehow, this month, I feel like I fell behind. I really don’t know why. Probably has something to do with four girls pulling me in four different directions, plus a husband, plus a job that takes some of my time, plus there are actually more TV shows I’m watching (one per girl, really. A quick aside, we’re actually quite liking the Shadowhunters TV series, but mostly because everyone’s so pretty to look at.). But I feel like there’s just less time for reading than there used to be.

Times and seasons, I guess.

My favorite of the ones that got read this month, though was this one:

I Am Princess X

There were a lot of good ones, though, this month. The rest:

YA:

Salt to the Sea
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between
A School for Brides (audiobook)

Non-Fiction:

Wild (audiobook)
The Road to Little Dribbling
Radioactive

Middle Grade:

The Key to Extraordinary
Fridays With the Wizards

Graphic Novel

Amulet: Firelight

What were some of your favorites this month?

January usually kicks my butt. Seriously. It’s cold, it’s dark, there’s hardly any holidays to break up the long, dull, boring days. But this year, it wasn’t too bad. Maybe it’s the meditation practice that I’ve picked up in the past few months. Maybe it’s a handful of sunny, 60-degree days where I could sit outside and bask in the sunshine. Maybe it was the idea of a yoga retreat that kept me going and that I thoroughly enjoyed. At any rate, I managed to read, I managed to stay sane, I managed to have a good January for once.

My favorite book this month was this:

The Buried Giant (audio book)

The audiobook was brilliant, and the book was right up my alley. As for the rest:

Graphic Novel
 

Unicorn on a Roll
Nimona

Nonfiction

We Should All Be Feminists

Adult Fiction

Mrs. Queen Takes the Train

YA

Kill the Boy Band
Peas and Carrots
These Shallow Graves

Middle Grade

Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics
Friday Barnes, Girl Detective

What were your favorites this month?

Because of the Cybils, this month was a month of Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction. I’m super happy with our shortlist and can’t wait to share it with you on January 1st! And tomorrow, I’ll have my best of the year post. It’s been a good year, overall.

With those two caveats, I’m going to skip my favorite for the month.

Middle Grade

Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head

Lilliput

Mars Evacuees

 

 

Jack

Nomad

Castle Hangnail

A Dragon’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans

Wings of Fire: Moon Rising

MiNRS

Dungeoneers

The Fog Diver

To Catch a Cheat

Summerlost

YA:

The Memory of Light

See How They Run

Non-Fiction

 

 

 

 

You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) (audio)


Most Dangerous

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bad Feminist

What were your favorites for the month?