Last week, we ran the Fall Book Fair in my school's library. I LOVE BOOK FAIRS!!! I also hate Book Fairs (just a little) when they are in my library, because they take some serious work. Book fairs often mean extra hours, distracted kids, disrupted schedules, and a jam-packed space.
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| Beautiful Book Fair in my Library :-) |
BUT...there are ALL. THE. BOOKS.
My problem with having a Book Fair is the fact that I want to read them all!!! And I don't really have time to just sit down and do that, but I want to so badly!
And let's be honest, Bibliophiles all suffer from this problem: there are SO MANY books and just so little time!
By the end of the week, I had pulled a GIANT stack of books off the shelves that I wanted to take home with me. This pile, however, got a little more expensive than Hubster would have approved of, so I weeded it down. I also made sure that we procured some awesome young adult for the library (and yes, I get some preview rights to those new books, so that's pretty awesome...).
So I thought that I would share some titles with you that I got excited about seeing at the book fair.
Now, I haven't read any of these, but these are novels that I am putting on my reading list.
I've started reading this book, and so far, I LOVE it!! So fun and interesting. It's a take on the old "strangers stuck on an elevator together," and it's great. Hadley, our heroine, is headed to England for her father's wedding to the woman he left her mother for. She's super excited (and by excited, I mean NOT). She meets Oliver in the airport when she misses her flight and gets bumped to the next flight. The same flight Oliver is on.
While I'm not that far into the novel yet, so far it's fresh, interesting, and a really fun read. I'm excited to finish it!
This is an Historical Fiction, set in 1930s Germany. The main character, Gretchen, is under the wing of her Uncle Dolf. And her Uncle Dolf? Well, he's actually Adolf Hitler. I can't wait to read this book!!! The premise and the reviews look fascinating, and HAPPY NEWS: there's a sequel called
Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke. Check out the Common Sense Media Review
here.
Poor Hoodoo is a kid that comes from a long line of folk magicians, and he can't cast a spell to save his life. The book jacket reminded me of Squibs in
Harry Potter, so I am really excited to dive into this book, which I bought with the intent of reading and then passing on to my ten-year-old nephew (who is just starting to read
Harry Potter!).
Westerfeld's novel looks fascinating, as it is a sort of revised history of World War I that involves fantasy aspects. My junior high book club at school has chosen to read this novel, and I'm excited to dig into it. And thrilled that they are excited about the prospect of a book party with costumes at the end of the semester!
This is a gritty-looking novel about a high school that has a student lead behavior control program. The "Mockingbirds" are charged with the duty of keeping everyone in line. I think it sounds fascinating!
This is a story that links to the Jack the Ripper story, with a modern day kid going to London to live. When he arrives, there's a string of murders that look a lot like Jack the Ripper. I can't wait to read this novel with it's awesome tie-in to history.
I'm horrified by the premise of this novel, with children being trafficked about, but the novel looks like it promises to be a deeply intense experience!
On Saturday, it will be a year since my grandmother passed, after having fought a long and difficult struggle with Alzheimer's disease. This novel is the story of a woman, a professor, who is beset with early onset Alzheimer's. While I am approaching this novel cautiously, I want to read it and see how Genova handles such an intense story. And there's a movie now too, which I would like to watch once I finish the book.
This book's jacket cover made my heart squeeze. Efaw tackles the aftermath of a deeply traumatic experience in a teenage girl's life. I am heading into reading this novel with a box of kleenex in hand, because as a teacher, the reality of Efaw's character's situation hits close to home.
Thank God for JK Rowling!!!!! In April of 2013, Robert Galbraith debuted his first novel
The Cuckoo's Calling, which opened the Cormoran Strike Mysteries series. It came out with modest success, and then the news leaked that Robert Galbraith was actually JK Rowling, publishing a new series without all the hubbub and expectation that
The Casual Vacancy suffered. In 2014, Rowling gave the next book
The Silkworm, and now
Career of Evil has arrived. Oh, I love these books! The first two were clever, well-plotted, and such great mysteries. Now, the third novel has been released, and I have just started it. And. it's. so. good!! You should immediately go read them all!
*Disclaimer: these novels are most certainly Adult novels. There is plenty of dark humor, graphic crime scenes, f-bombs, and, in The Silkworm, some description of weird sexuality. That being said, they are also full of incredible plot structure, wonderful description, and fabulous characterization.*
This is a new series by Riordan, who has written the wonderful
Percy Jackson series,
The Heroes of Olympus series,, and
The Kane Chronicles. Magnus Chase is based on Norse mythology, the same way that Riordan draws on Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. I am excited to get my hands on a copy and find out how he weaves previous characters into this new type of mythology.
There's a little sliver of my new reading list, spurred on by last week's book fair. What books are you planning to read this winter?
I love book recomendations! Will have to check some of these out!
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