Late (as always, but whatever… POPCORN!)… I went to Midwinter as an ALA Emerging Leader, I emerged all over the place, I got to hang with my blogging buddy in her old stomping grounds, I saw a very ill-advised production of [title of show], and I picked up tons of swag. Which, frankly, I wasn’t going to blog about, because all those posts where people crow about all the free stuff they’ve ended up with have always reminded me a little bit too much of my mom’s joy in eating all the free samples at Sam’s Club and calling that “lunch”… but now that I’m the one with the swag, I understand better the urge to crow about it.
So here’s the pile of stuff I’m beating my chest over this month…
ARCs that I will probably read at some point (except I’m old-school, so I really want to call them galleys, and honestly I have this weird squick about them):
- The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork
- Green Witch by Alice Hoffman
- Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler
- The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
- Illyria by Elizabeth Hand
- the new edition of From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books by Kathleen T. Horning
- The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back by Kevin and Hannah Salwen
Books that I will probably read at some point:
- Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
- Barack Obama (the DK biography) by Stephen Krensky
- The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
- The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton
- Fallen by Lauren Kate
- This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
- The Story about the Story: Great Writers Explore Great Literature
- The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
- and…. the piece de resistance… a SIGNED copy of Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell
Books/ARCs going directly to classrooms in my building:
- Bone: Tall Tales by Jeff Smith (so pumped for new Bone stories!)
- Eleventh Grade Burns: Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer
- Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
- The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (going straight to my principal, who loved The Shadow of the Wind)
- The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang by Amy Ignatow
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
- the manga tie-in chapter books Naruto: The Boy Ninja and Dragon Ball: The Adventure Begins
It all fit in a box that only cost $10 to ship! Thank god for library rate.
That’s some awesome swag!