2011 Year in Review (Haiku)

Number of posts: 148
Number of book reviews: 136

Favorite middle-grade reads:
A Tale Dark and Grimm

Breadcrumbs

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2: The Hidden Gallery

Favorite chapter book-y reads:
Clementine and the Family Meeting

Lucky for Good

Favorite YA reads:
The Last Little Blue Envelope

Picture This

Beauty Queens

Withering Tights

Real Live Boyfriends
Why We Broke Up

Favorite grown-up reads:
The Borrower

Bossypants

The Pioneer Woman

One Was a Soldier

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

Best jackets of the year:
Darth Paper Strikes Back

Divergent

A Tale Dark and Grimm

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Beauty Queens

Okay for Now

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

Books that, if they do not get some kind of ALA award recognition, I will eat my hat:

Breadcrumbs

Okay for Now

Beauty Queens

A Tale Dark and Grimm

Wonderstruck

FIVE: Birthday Haiku

Happy birthday to
my Turkey Boy! May you stay
forever insane.

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011: Review Haiku

Perfect for dipping
in and out of while on the
beach in Rio (sigh).

Best American Nonrequired Reading edited by Dave Eggers. Mariner, 2011, 528 pages.

Why We Broke Up: Review Haiku

I think the New York Times

just ji$$ed in its collective pants.
Epic win.

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, illustrated by Maira Kalman. Little Brown, 2011, 368 pages.

Merry Christmas!

From our house to yours.

Breadcrumbs: Review Haiku

And another one:

Yes, it really is that good.

My Newbery pick.

Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu. Walden Pond Press, 2011, 320 pages.

A Tale of Two Castles: Review Haiku

A surfeit of classic
fantasy tropes adds up to
a middling tale.

A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine. Harper, 2011, 336 pages.

Alvin Ho #4: Review Haiku

Surprisingly
touching, yet still wicked funny.
Marry me, Alvin?

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances by Lenore Look. Schwarz & Wade, 2011, 208 pages.

Secrets at Sea: Review Haiku

Is it sacrilege
to say I thought this was just
okay? Lurve the art.

Secrets at Sea by Richard Peck. Illustrated by Kelly Murphy. Dial, 2011, 256 pages.

The Leftovers: Review Haiku

"Left Behind for atheists"?
-- probably too flip.
Solid Perrotta.

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. St. Martin's, 2011, 368 pages.

Little Bets: Review Haiku

Nothing shocking, but
a good reminder that
incremental change works.

Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims. Free Press, 2011, 224 pages.

Don't mind me . . .

. . . I'll just be in Rio for a few days.

Darth Paper Strikes Back: Review Haiku

Multiple narrators
sometimes grate, but it's
ORIGAMI VADER.

Darth Paper Strikes Back by Tom Angelberger. Amulet, 2011, 176 pages.

The Story of Charlotte's Web: Review Haiku

A bit precious, a
bit pretentious, but how
could I resist this one?

The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by Michael Sims. Walker, 2011, 320 pages.

St. Paul's Advent Fair: TOMORROW!

Local peeps, stop by my church's awesome Advent Fair for terrific gift baskets, crafts, food, and a raffle for an iPad2!