Read in 2011, part II

[beth_shulman]

There is, in fact, a mood theme icon for discontent, which is how I feel about this list. I read way less than I usually do because of the insanity of this semester. Links are to my reviews - I did manage to write some. Organized by new books and rereads, for obvious depressing reasons:

The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
The Black Hawk by Joanne Bourne
The Spymaster's Lady by Joanne Bourne
The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan
Liar's Moon by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima
The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge
The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman
Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne Jones
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
So Silver Bright by Lisa Mantchev
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier
The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Passage by Connie Willis
Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Rereads:
By Cinda Williams Chima:
The Sorcerer Heir
The Demon King
The Exiled Queen

Frindle by Andrew Clements

By Madeleine L'Engle:
The Arm of the Starfish
The Young Unicorns
A Ring of Endless Light

By Maud Hart Lovelace:
Betsy-Tacy
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Heaven to Betsy
Betsy in Spite of Herself
Betsy was a Junior
Betsy and Joe
Betsy's Wedding

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

By L.M. Montgomery:
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of the Island
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside
The Blue Castle

By Ellen Emerson White:
Romance is a Wonderful Things
Life Without Friends
The President's Daughter
Long May She Reign

Assigned reads:
By William Shakespeare:
The Taming of the Shrew
Much Ado About Nothing
A Merchant of Venice
Richard III
Henry IV, Part I
Othello
King Lear
The Tempest

The notables:

• The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima - YA + high fantasy + good writing! How could I not like it?
• The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge - As always, a marvel.
• The Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier - A lovely, understated, elegant fantasy.
• Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt - A maelstrom of emotion, a testament to the strength of humanity, a wonderful, wonderful novel. YA at its finest.
• Passage by Connie Willis - A heartbreaker, but it contains so much truth about life and death and grief and is so utterly gripping that it's an undeniable standout.
• All the rereads are wonderful, too.

The numbers, loosely by genre:
YA (includes fantasy and dystopian YA): 33
Children's (meaning for everyone, but shelved with children's books): 12
Adult fiction: 6
Plays: 8
Somewhere-in-between: 2

Comments

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

The Betsy Tacy books! Oh, I love those and need to reread them, too.

Happy new year.

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

YES :D

Same to you!