257 (by DulcieWagstaff)
257 (by DulcieWagstaff)
Today kicks off Banned Books Week!
The pictures above are of some of my books that are frequently challenged or banned. There were actually a lot I forgot, such as some works by Shel Silverstein, Roald Dahl, The Giver, His Dark Materials and probably more.You can see some lists of banned or challenged books here.
Whether that means linking to flickr or deviantart or only posting their own pictures, as far as I know these blogs never use weheartit or post anything uncredited. I’m sure I missed a lot, but here’s some.
Happy Children’s Books Week!
Books for reluctant young readers, part 2. See part 1 here.
Read the things people think you shouldn’t, prove you have an open mind.

I counted and I have 470 books in total (plus a bag of 18 books I need to get rid of). That’s including cook books, doubles and old children’s picture books. You can see tagged pictures of my shelves here. I should take a bunch of new pictures soon- I’m waiting for a sunny day so that they’ll turn out.
Best Books I read in 2012
Another year is over and that means a yearly review in books. You can see my 100 book challenge for the year here, and this list is excluding rereads (which is why I’m not including amazing books like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Paper Towns.) I thought this list would be easier/shorter since I read less than half as many books as I did in 2011, but no such luck.
1. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
2. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
3. If I Stay by Gayle Foreman
4. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
5. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
6. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
7. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
8. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
9. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
What were your favourite books read in 2012?
In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, in which book bloggers post about the books they’ve bought, borrowed or received in the past week.
Some new books! I ordered Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell and you can read the review here. I also bought some used books: The Colour Purple by Alice Walker, Atonement by Ian McEwan and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I already own Atonement, but this copy was 50 cents and I prefer it to my movie edition. My brother gave me some of his old books, which you can see here. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod and Restless Gods by Reginald W. Bibby.
"Books. People never really stop loving books. Fifty-first century. By now you’ve got holovids, direct-to-brain downloads, fiction mist. But you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath!"
— The Doctor, Doctor Who
I’ve read 18 of these, but a lot of them I read while I was 21, not before.
I have a kobo touch and I’m very happy with it! I read e-books occasionally, although I’ve only bought one. I mainly read library books, e-galleys and the free classics. To be honest, I use my e-reader either because a) it’s the most convenient way to get the book (if my library has the e-book but not the physical book,) or b) I’m on vacation and don’t want to bring a bunch of heavy books when I can just bring my kobo. So while I don’t use my e-reader that much (mainly because I’ve already bought so many physical books that I have to read, and because I’m always finding books on the shelves while I volunteer at the library) I am very glad I have a kobo!