In which Rachel reads...

I'm not sure how I ended up on a list to receive chick lit to review, but nevertheless I did and here is another one. It wasn't altogether odious (actually, I quite got sucked into the story), but this is still just not a genre that I particularly enjoy. Oh well. I'm sure there's more to come at some point!

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Toon, Paige. Baby Be Mine. London: Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 2011.

So, my friend e! and I have started our own personal book club. This book was next on the list, but turned out to be rather a disappointment. I've passed it off to him, but with my apologies.

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Clarke, Brock. An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.

Wow. Just... wow. While I have to confess that this book gave me nightmares (I've been sneakily reading it at work just to avoid reading it too close to bedtime!), it was an amazingly well wrought story and a fascinating look at so many, many elements of society, culture, international relations, humanity....

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Brooks, Max. World War Z. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2006.

I'm not sure whether I would EVER have come across this book on my own, but having found it on the shelves of a dear friend, I must admit to being glad for the chance encounter (and the loan to allow me to digest it in full). Tim Burton's an odd one, but fascinating....

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Burton, Tim. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories. New York, NY: Rob Weisbach Books, 1997.

This is the last of the graphic novels I had to read for my articles. I'm almost done posting these now. I promise! :)

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Katin, Miriam. We Are on Our Own. New York, NY: Drawn and Quarterly, 2006.

Woo-hoo! I finally got around to reading one of the books on my list for 100project! To say that this book wasn't what I was expecting isn't quite fair, because I don't really know what I was expecting. Just... this wasn't it. But that's not fair either, because it then sounds like I didn't enjoy the book, but I did. But... well, just read my review.

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Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. New York, NY: Mariner Books, 2004.

Another graphic novel read for my articles. Not sure how else to introduce this one, really....

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McKeever, Ted. Transit: Ted McKeever Library (Book 1). Canada: Shadowline Comics, 2008.

Because I read this book for another one of the articles I'm writing, I really wanted to like it (after all, it's so much easier to write an article when you've enjoyed the subject). But while I appreciated this graphic novel, I can't say that I really enjoyed it. I read it, and then I was done. It happened, but now it's over.

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Drechsler, Debbie. The Summer of Love. Montreal, Quebec: Drawn & Quarterly, 2003.

This is the second book recently that I've read in a single day. Yes, the story is just that much fun. I originally read it to screen for appropriate reading for my daughter (can you believe my mother picked this up for my 9-year-old?). Even though it's not appropriate for her quite yet, I certainly enjoyed it. :)

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Kade, Stacey. The Ghost and the Goth (#1). New York, NY: Hyperion, 2011.

This book was written by my dear friend Tim... and look! my name is in the acknowledgments! :) I'm going to do my best to give this a fair and unbiased review, but having read parts of it in the draft stage I don't know that such a thing is really possible. Nevertheless, here goes:

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Kade, Stacey. The Fall of the Iron Prow. Washington, DC: SP, 2011.