Elsewhere Online: January 2011

As you may have guessed from my In My Mailbox posts, I review for another website (bookloons.com). As I cannot post my reviews there and here, but I would still like to count the books I read for the challenges, I am going to have a post like this at the end of the every month listing the books I reviewed and what challenges the went towards.

Title: Once Was Lost

Author: Sara Zarr

Challenges: Young Adult Contemporary, 100 Books in a Year

Title: Shadow Blade

Author: Seressia Glass

Challenges: 1st in a Series, People of Color, Horror & Urban Fantasy, 100 Books in a Year

Fantasy Challenge

I have been looking for a (non-urban) fantasy challenge and I have found it with Darlyn & Books's 2011 Fantasy Reading Challenge. I am going to do the Curious level (3 books).

1. Blue by Lou Aronica

2. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

3. Huntress by Malinda Lo

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For Review (at Bookloons.com):

Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Summer by Eden Maguire

Won:

Eleventh Grade Burns by Heather Brewer

Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

From Swaps on Swap-Bot:

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

From Paperbackswap.com:

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

This fun weekly meme comes from The Story Siren.

Maid Sama! Volume 4

Title: Maid Sama! Volume 4

Author: Hiro Fujiwara

Publisher: Tokyopop

ISBN: 978-1-4278-1406-7

Why Read?: For fun

Challenges: Manga, Mini-Challenge, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: I had really enjoyed the first two volumes, but then the story seemed to halt a little, causing my interest to decline. Volume 4's chapters focus on two main storylines. The first involves a mysogenist student who tries to use his hypnotism powers to cause Misaki's downfall. After that crisis is over, the gang from Maid Latte head to the beach, where (SPOILER ALERT) Misaki and Usui's relationship starts to finally heat up. This is a fun read, but even after 4 volumes, I have trouble keeping some of the characters straight.

Rating: 3 stars

Wilde Challenge

I love Oscar Wilde, so of course I am signing up for Armchair Archives' Oscar Wilde Reading Challenge. I have read a number of his plays already, but I do have one I have not read along with his novel, so I am going to do the Wilde Card level (2 books).

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Vampire Challenge

I have a few vamp books on my shelves, so I thought I would try Parajunkee's View's Vampire Challenge 2011. I don't know if I'll get 20, but that's why it's a challenge, right?

1. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

2. A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris

3. Nightschool: The Weirn Books 1 by Svetlana Chmakova

4. Primal Desires by Susan Sizemore

5. Nightschool: The Weirn Books 2 by Svetlana Chmakova

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For review (Bookloons.com):

Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar

You Killed Wesley Payne by Sean Beaudoin

Paperbackswap.com:

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

(the cover on my copy is a much older on, but Goodreads didn't have an image of it (and my scanner is on the fritz))

Won:

Another Pan by Daniel & Dina Nayeria

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Girl Parts by John M. Cusick

Lone Star Legend by Gwendolyn Zepeda

Into the Dark by Gena Showalter

Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender

Amazon.com:

The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade

The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar

This fun weekly meme comes from The Story Siren.