Junky

Title: Junky
Author: William S. Burroughs

Publisher: Recorded Books
ISBN: n/a

Why Read?: For Fun
Challenges: Audio Book, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: This semi-autobiographical narrative was a very interesting read for the fact that it deals in depth with drug culture in a time that I was not even aware there was one.  I also had absolutely no clue that Burroughs was from St. Louis.

Rating: 4 stars

The Animal Story Book

Title: The Animal Story Book
Author: Andrew Lang

Publisher: Dover0-486-42187-2
ISBN: 0-486-42187-2

Why Read?: For Fun
Challenges: 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: Lang is known for compiling the Rainbow Fairy books, and that is what I expected this volume to be like, but all stories involving animals.  Well, all the stories do involve animals, but most are true stories or even zoological observations.  Interesting, but many were too sad or too dry for me.

Rating: 2 stars

Stacking the Shelves: 11/9-11/15

First Reads from Goodreads:

A Trial in Lafayette County by Phillip D. Payne

The Day Human Prince by B. Kristin McMichael

LibraryThing Early Review:

Arkadium Rising by Glen Krisch

Dragonbait

Title: Dragonbait
Author: David McLain

Publisher: Wayman
ISBN: 978-0-9897850-0-6

Why Read?: Early Review
Challenges: 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: If you love some fun with your fairytale fantasies, this is a must!  McLain's story is cute and funny and a very enjoyable read.

Rating: 5 stars

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Author: David Eggers

Publisher: Recorded Books
ISBN: 978-0-06-232807-6

Why Read?: For Fun
Challenges: Audio Book, Author Alphabet, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: The title of this memoir with fictionalized parts can seem misleading until you get to know the narrator who is given to hyperbole.  This is actually a very entertaining listen which surprised me.

Rating: 4 stars

Stacking the Shelves: 11/2-11/8

For possible review (here and on Bookloons):

Herald of the Flame by Sylvia Engdahl

Radiant by Karina Sumner-Smith

Stories of the Raksura by Martha Wells

Waterfall by Lauren Kate

A Courtship for Cecilia by Ruth J. Hartman

First Reads from Goodreads:

Rasputin by Frances Welch

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

Tantric Coconuts by Greg Kincaid

Stacking the Shelves: 10/26-11/1

For possible review (on Bookloons):

Like Water on Stone by Dana Walrath

First Reads from Goodreads:

The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone by Adele Griffin

LibraryThing Early Review:

The Relief Fisher by Steve Lookner