Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic: Happy Birthday Ana!!

Books Read in 2011

1. Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
2. Wither by Lauren Destefano
3. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
4. Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
5. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson Book 3) by Rick Riordan
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
7. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
9. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson
10. The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye Vol. 1 by Robert Kirkman
11. The Walking Dead: Miles Behind Us Vol. 2 by Robert Kirkman
12. The Walking Dead: Safety Behind Bars Vol. 3 by Robert Kirkman

Once Upon A Time V Challenge

Stories: All New Tales Edited by Neil Gaiman
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson Book 3) by Rick Riordan
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Matched by Ally Condie
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
The Eternal Ones by Kristin Miller
Graveminder by Melissa Marr
Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
His Magesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia Wrede
Beauty by Robin McKinley
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
From a Whisper to a Scream by Charles de Lint
~~The Lady of Shallot by Alfred, Lord Tennyson~~

Canadian III Challenge

Women's Unbound Reading Challenge

Fiction:
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min

Nonfiction:
~~Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution (Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters) Edited by Wally Lamb~~
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power by Virgina Rounding
Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Printz Project

2009 Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
~~The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart~~
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
~~Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan~~

2008 The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke
Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stephanie Hemphill

2007 ~~American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang~~
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
~~The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak~~

2006 ~~Looking for Alaska, by John Green~~
Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan
~~I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak~~
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005 how i live now, by Meg Rosoff
Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004 The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson
A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost
Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003 Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers
The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002 A Step From Heaven, by An Na
The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg
Abrams Freewill, by Chris Lynch
True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001 Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond
Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman
The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison
Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000 ~~Monster, by Walter Dean Myers~~
~~Skellig, by David Almond~~
~~Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson~~
Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger

Orbis Terrarum Challenge 2009

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
A Dry White Season by Andre Brink (South Africa)
War Trash by Ha Jin (China)
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
OR Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (Japan)
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (India)
The Secret River by Kate Grenville (Australia)
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (New Zealand)
The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara (Argentina)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Norway)
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (Russia)
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)

The Birthday Cookout was a success!! The weather was a wonderful 62 degrees, sunny and just a tad breezy. The above picture is Ana, Bella, and our neighbor Kaylee. The 3 of them spent the afternoon doing girlie things! Ana got lots of good stuff, ranging from books (yeah!) to Bratz to Barbies. Then we played softball (actually whiffle ball) and a little basketball. Girls against the boys, baby!!

And this is a picture of the kiddies and Uncle Aaron, my best friend. (See previous post!) All in all, it was a glorious day!!