Notes from Mt. Bookpile

Biography:

• Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose (8) Sandy Balfour Lazy review
• Nothing to Be Frightened of Julian Barnes Barnes' reflections on death, family (biological and chosen) and life
• Robertson Davies Val Ross An oral biography of Davies, one of my favorite authors

Children's/Young Adult:

• The Underneath Kathi Appelt Lazy review
  
• Penderwicks on Gardam Street Jeanne Birdsall Lazy review
  
• Tennyson Lesley M. M. Blume Lazy review
  
• Worst Enemies/Best Friends Annie Bryant Lazy review
  
• Waiting for Normal Leslie Connor Lazy review
  
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Rachel Cohn and David Levithan Not sure what the fuss was all about, nor how one could make a movie out of it.
• Bird Lake Moon Kevin Henkes Lazy review
  
• The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman Loved the book (ok, mostly loved), and really don't know if I want/need there to be a sequel
• Outside Beauty Cynthia Kadohata Lazy review
• One False Note Gordon Korman Lazy review
• Savvy Ingrid Law Lazy review
• The Willoughbys Lois Lowry Lazy review
• Greetings from Nowhere Barbara O'Connor Lazy review
• Superior Saturday Garth Nix The penultimate book in the Keys to the Kingdom series, and I'll be sorry when it's all over

Fiction/Literature:

• The Fiction Class Susan Breen Lazy Review
• The Witch of Exmoor Margaret Drabble Lazy review
• The Rose Labyrinth Titania Hardie Lazy review
• The Fire Katherine Neville If you haven't read The Eight and play chess, you'll be lost.
• Lilley & Chase Tim Waterstone Lazy review
  
• When Nietzsche Wept Irvin D. Yalom Lazy review

Mystery:

• Scared to Live Stephen Booth This series just gets darker and darker, which works for me
  
• Careless in Red Elizabeth George George wrote herself into a corner with her last two books, and I'm not sure she's completely gotten out of it yet
• The Roar of the Butterflies Reginald Hill A non-Dalziel/Pascoe, and not bad, although I'm not sure I'd go after another one in this series
• The Private Patient P.D. James Lazy review
• The Paris Enigma Pablo De Santis Lazy review

Non-Fiction:

• The Angry Island A.A. Gill Lazy review
• The Acadians James Laxer The better of the two books on the topic I read this year; far more balanced, and with a better sense (for the reader) of what happened after la grande derangement and the present day
• The Anglo Files Sarah Lyall Lazy review
• The Magician's Book Laura Miller Lazy review
• Bonk Mary Roach Lazy review
• Edwardians Richard Paul Thompson Lazy review

Number removed from Mt. Bookpile this quarter: 35
Number added to Mt. Bookpile this quarter: 29
Net loss: 6
Status of Mt. Bookpike: 329 books to go!