{"id":1707,"date":"2010-10-24T22:57:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T02:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2010-10-24T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T02:57:59","slug":"in-my-mailbox-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"In My Mailbox #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for In My Mailbox<\/a>! I’m finding this a fun excuse to talk about the books I just checked out. Though I may eventually subside with embarrassment as people find out how many books I actually check out but don’t get read and how far behind I am on writing reviews! This having a full-time job cuts down on blogging time, I’m afraid!<\/p>\n

In My Mailbox is hosted by The Story Siren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week, the first batch of books I checked out is here:
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Picture books: Zero,<\/em> and The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark<\/em>
\nNonfiction: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<\/em>
\nChildren’s Fiction: The Kneebone Boy<\/em>, by Ellen Potter
\nTeen Fiction: The Amaranth Enchantment,<\/em> by Julie Berry
\nAdult Fiction: Miss Hargreaves,<\/em> by Frank Baker<\/p>\n

Since I only review picture books I’m super excited about, I ended up turning those two back in unreviewed.<\/p>\n

The next batch of books checked out:
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Here we have:
\nPicture Books: Zen Ghosts<\/em>, by Jon Muth, and Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?<\/em> by Audrey Vernick
\nTeen Fiction: A Wizard of Mars,<\/em> by Diane Duane
\nChildren’s Fiction: A Whole Nother Story,<\/em> by Dr. Cuthbert Soup<\/p>\n

Then on Saturday I went to the Zen of YA Literature Conference, where Catherine Gilbert Murdock was speaking. I purchased copies of Front and Center<\/em> and Princess Ben<\/a><\/em>, and got them signed.<\/p>\n

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Oh, I also checked out three audiobooks, and am listening to the first one: Carpe Diem<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned, but ever since I came home from ALA with an overabundance of review copies, I have started trying to discipline myself to alternate my fiction reading between a library book and a book I own. So this week I finished the library book Behemoth,<\/em> by Scott Westerfeld, and then read the book I own, Enchanted Ivy,<\/em> by Sarah Beth Durst. Both were excellent, and Enchanted Ivy<\/em> especially so! Reviews will be coming — some day! I also finished the audiobook Flipped,<\/em> by Wendelin Van Draanen. It was very good, but I didn’t want it to end where it did.<\/p>\n

This week I got one review posted and one review written.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t take a math major to figure out that I am just getting further behind! My current score is I now have 31 books I have read and would like to review, and 16 books that I have written a review for, which need to be posted.<\/p>\n

But at least I’m having fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for In My Mailbox! I’m finding this a fun excuse to talk about the books I just checked out. Though I may eventually subside with embarrassment as people find out how many books I actually check out but don’t get read and how far behind I am on writing reviews! This having a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-my-mailbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}