May I Suggest

For a fun, cliched, slightly historical read with vampires, alchemy, the philosopher's stone, a ghost and a love story.

My Befriend Your Library Reading Challenge List

1.Demon Diary/Hyong

2.Death Note/Ohba v.1

3.AfterSchool Nightmare/Mizushiro

4.Powers:Who Killed Retro Girl/Bendis

5.Push and a Shove/Kelly

6.We Need to Talk about Kevin/Shriver

7.Dead is the New Black/Perez

8.Beige/Castellucci

9.Bone by Bone/O'Connell

10.Senselessness/Castellanos Moya

11.AfterSchool Nightmare v.2

12.AfterSchool Nightmare v.3

13.Death Note/Ohba v.2

14.Death Note/Ohba v.3

15.Sandman:Worlds' End/Gaiman

16.Afterschool Nightmare v.4

17.Afterschool Nightmare v.5

18.Afterschool Nightmare v.6

19.Afterschool Nightmare v.7

20.Afterschool Nightmare v.8

21.Afterschool Nightmare v.9

22.Death Note/Ohba v.4

23.Death Note/Ohba v.5

24.Death Note/Ohba v.6

25.Sandman:kindly Ones/Gaiman

26.Here on Earth/Hoffman

27.Heartsick/Cain

28.Small Island/Levy

29.Two parties, One Tux/Goldman

30.Promises in Death/Robb

31.Sandman: the Wake/Gaiman

32.Sandman:Endless Nights/Gaiman

33.Unclean Spirits/Hanover

34.Blueberry Girl/Gaiman

35.Passager/Yolen

36.Hobby/Yolen

37.Merlin/Yolen

38.Wicked Lovely/Marr

39.Good Neighbors/Black

40.Housekeeper & the Professor/Ogawa

41.Hatter M/Beddor

42.Ironside/Black

43.Hero/Moore

44.Embroideries/Satrapi

45.Italian Fever/Martin

46.Bonesetter's Daughter/Tan

47.Death & the Lit Chick/Malliet

48.Ink Exchange/Marr

49.Lament/Stiefvater

50.Hours/Cunningham


A lot of manga on this list, which I was trying for the first time, enjoyed it for a bit but got tired of it quickly. Love the Sandman series, and anything by Neil Gaiman. #6, 8, 40,44 and 46 were also good, and good for discussion groups. Heartsick by Cain is a gruesome serial killer story and if you like faeries then the trilogy by Black and Marr are good.

Book Awards

Thought I'd share a list of some book awards for those who are interested, this is not a complete list of awards just some I thought to share.

First some fiction:

Booker Prize

National Book Award

PEN/Faulkner Prize

Pulitzer Prize

Now some mysteries:

Edgar Prize

Macavity Prize

Agatha Awards

A few Science Fiction/Fantasy Awards:

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award

Nebula

James Tiptree Award

Romance - Rita Award

Westerns - Spur Award

Horror - Stoker Award

Crime - Hammett Award

A few Non-fiction awards:

Kiriyama Award

Robert F. Kennedy Award

For more awards check out this page:

Awards

Restoration England

Conspiracy of Violence - Susanna Gregory

Dark Angels - Karleen Koen

Daughters of England - Philippa Carr

Forever Amber - Kathleen Winsor

Instance at the Fingerpost - Ian Pears

Last Witchfinder - James Morrow

Rival Queens - Fidelis Morgan

Restoration - Rose Tremain

Royal Charles - Antonia Fraser

What I'm Reading

Below is a list of books I'm currently reading, about to start:

Savage Detectives/Bolano

Clash of Kings/Martin

Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers/Guo

Gallows Thief/Cornwell

Housekeeping/Robinson

Yacoubian Building/Aswani

Last Olympian/Riordian

Lux the Poet/Millar

Scenic Route/Kirshenbaum

Carpentaria/Wright

Review - Mystery of Grace/De Lint

I finished the Mystery of Grace back in early April, but haven’t known what to say about it and the more I waited the harder it became to write, so now I’m just going to ramble a little about it because most of it is gone out of my head. This is my second De Lint book, I’ve forgotten the title of the first, though I did enjoy it very much and I wanted to try another De Lint and when I heard about this one it sounded great and I couldn’t wait to read it. Part of not writing about it was I couldn’t figure out what to say without giving away too much, and I think if you know too much about this one it ruins the story.

A supernatural love story, a story about magic, belief and the afterlife. The religious overtones at the end ruined it a bit for me, but I absolutely loved Grace Quintero, a tattoo wearing car mechanic who’s into rockabilly music. She knows what she likes and she goes for it, not afraid of where it may lead. It was Grace that made the story worth reading and I’m rather upset that she’s dead and gone because I would truly love to have more stories about her.

Spring Tea

Celebrate Spring with an Afternoon Spring Tea

Thursday May 14 at 2 pm

Join us for tea and scones and perhaps some springtime music and flowers.

All are welcome.