Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Blog'BoutBooks
Welcome to Blog'BoutBooks! I have created this site so that we school librarians in Ohio (or anywhere else!) can come together to make suggestions about books. The idea for this came about yesterday when one of our fellow school librarians posted to our listserv regarding suggestions for summer reading. SO...start making suggestions here and continue to do so throughout the year. I always learn SO much from my peers!!! :-)
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If you haven't discovered Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com/ yet - I highly suggest it. As I get interesting books in our library - I add those I want to read to my "Plan to Read" shelf. That way, I don't forget about them.
Anyway - some MUST reads:
*The girl with the dragon tatoo series by Stieg Larsson (I'm waiting for the third book to be delivered next week!!)
*The Road by Cormac McCarthy (I plan to read All the Pretty Horses this summer)
*Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
*Graceling by Kristin Cashore (also Fire)
*Hunger Games, Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins - I have Mockingjay on order)
My To Read list:
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
FlashForward by Robert J Sawyer
Talk Talk by T Coraghessan Boyle
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Tweak : growing up on methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Folett (I read it decades ago but want to read again)
Hopefully I'll have time for many of these!!
Enjoy!
Thanks for starting this. Currently I am reading The Sheen on the Silk by Anne Perry and The Case for God by Karen Armstrong. Can anyone suggest a good graphic novel to read for high school? My book club is interested in them and I have had a hard time getting into them.
My adult book club is reading The Book Thief. If you haven't read it yet I recommend it.
My grown up beach book waiting for me is Three Cups of Tea. I want to read Going Bovine (YA)this summer in my hammock. I am currently reading Anything But Typical, about an autistic kid, then I will chase that with Marcelo in the Real World, another book about an autistic kid. Interesting.
Mockingjay isn't released until 8/24, I will be back in school by then.
I will be following your blog for ideas after that- thanks
How about Persopolis for a graphic novel?
I, too intend to read Going Bovine. I also want to read The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain by Barbara Strauch. The rest of the summer I will spend reading mysteries, my favorite genre. I especially like the ones set in London in the late 19th, early 20th centures.
I found a graphic novel "Filthy Rich" on a list, can't exactly remember which one and bought it through Amazon which said it was appropriate for grades 10+. I ordered it, processed it, stamped it and then looked more closely at it. And OMG-it's now going on the adult only shelf. I knew the topic was a bit rough-attempted rape & a killing, but we have books like that. However, I forgot that the graphic novel has pictures and this one has very graphic pictures!! Live and learn.
Going Bovine was a good book-especially if you are familiar with Don Quijote
Robin Sweigert
James A. Garfield High School
Wow, this is exciting...4 comments already. Just thought I would "play around" with the format. I like this full page format better.
I just finished the seventh book in Diana Gibaldon's Outlander Series, An Echo in the Bone. If you like historical sci-fi with a time travel twist of fantasy these are all extremely good reads...but quite lengthy.
My summer reading is quite eclectic, I jump from one genre to the next. Summertime is my "no plans" time so I'm allowed to have no particular purpose to what I am reading, and enjoying. 8^>
My suggestion for a good graphic novel for high school is American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. I love a good memoir in the summer so I will read Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams.
I liked What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell. A steamy novel that is both a romance and mystery that addresses anti-semitism and doing the right thing despite what adults around you are doing.
Like many others I am planning to read Going Bovine and the 2nd and 3rd books in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. My book club is reading A Reliable Wife for June. I would also like to read some of the Printz winners from this year and Hate List, Little Brother, Life as We Knew It, Water for Elephants...the list goes on and on!!
The Red pyramid by Riordan is great
Turncoat by Jim Butcher
The last Sookie book.
The glass castle.
All are great
bookishbrown
Title I am reading now - very interesting - Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age - about university and k-12 education in a quickly changing world. A must read!
Titles I read earlier this year -- all excellent: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, A Moveable Feast by Hemingway, Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, Wild Trees by Richard Preston, Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor, Light on Snow by Anita Shreve.
My book club summer title is The Help by Kathryn Stockett. We are meeting on Tuesday to select next year's titles.
Enjoy the summer -- and the time to read and think!
Jennifer Schwelik
I am always on the look out for titles that will appeal to the YA males in my high school. Have read several YA books this summer. So far, Unwind by Neil Shusterman has the best chance of attracting these readers.
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