Book Chat: Bookish Gratitude

Hey it's a vlog!  It takes a long time to film and edit these, and I'm usually short on time, so I've been opting for written posts instead of video.  But it's the day before Thanksgiving and I have some time on my hands.  This month's book chat, courtesy of Misty at The Book Rat, is on thankfulness.

What bookish things are you thankful for?

Book Pet Peeves

We all have things that get on our nerves in books and movies and things.  Here are my peeves.  What are yours?  

This really was the best thumbnail Youtube could come up with.  Lame.

Books and Movies and Things Mentioned:

Wings--Aprilynne Pike

The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins

Eyes Like Stars--Lisa Mantchev

Clockwork Angel--Cassandra Clare

Entwined--Heather Dixon

Hush, Hush--Becca Fitzpatrick

Twilight--Stephanie Meyer

Strands of Bronze and Gold--Jane Nickerson

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

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Brave

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym--Edgar Allan Poe

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea--Jules Verne

Cinder--Marissa Meyer

Seraphina--Rachel Hartman

Harry Potter--J.K. Rowling

The Last Think I Remember--Andrew Klaven

Goose Girl--Shannon Hale

The False Prince--Jennifer A. Nielsen

Anything written by Brandon Sanderson

Book Chat: Required Reading

I managed to respond to Misty's monthly book chat in a timely manner this time!  Yay!  This month we're discussing required reading.  You can define "required" however you want.  

Be sure to check out Misty's original post and join the conversation in comments and video responses.

Book Chat: Design Elements

I know I'm super late, but this is a response to Misty's April book chat about design elements, the little touches in the design of a book that add that little extra something.  I apologize for the bad lighting and sound for this video.  New location and I don't think my camera liked being that close to the modem.  Or it's trying to die on me.  And I didn't realize I looked so ticked off at the end of the video.  Sorry about that.  

Books Mentioned:

Steel--Carrie Vaughn

Splintered--A.G. Howard

Heist Society--Ally Carter

Strands of Bronze and Gold--Jane Nickerson

Entwined--Heather Dixon

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate--Jacqueline Kelly

The Strange Case of Oragami Yoda--Tom Angleberger

My Life as a Book--Janet Tashijan

The Mysterious Benedict Society--Trenton Lee Stewart

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone--J.K. Rowling

The Tale of Despereaux--Kate DiCamillo

Mistborn--Brandon Sanderson

Leviathan--Scott Westerfeld

Let me know what you think in comments here or responses to Misty's original video.

Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt Tag

First by The Library of Sarah. Tagged by Bookrat Misty because she tags everybody :)

In this tag you wee a lot of the back of my head.

Find an author's name or title with the letter Z in it

   Eagle Strike--Anthony HorowitzFind a classic

   Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
Find a book with a key on it

   Splintered--A.G. Howard
Find something on your bookshelf that's not a book

   Bonzai Kit
Find the oldest book on your shelf

   Dragon Seed--Pearl S Buck

   The Orestia--Aeschylus
Find a book with a girl on the cover

   Delerium--Lauren Oliver
Find a book that has an animal in it

   Dragon Slippers--Jessica Day George

   Mossflower--Brian Jaques

Find a book with a male protagonist

   Airborn--Kenneth Oppel
Find a book with only words on it

   The Boy in the Striped Pajamas--John Boyne
   Gilead--Marilynne Robinson

   A Midsummer Night's Dream--Shakespeare
Find a book with illustrations in it

   My Life as a Book--Janet Tashijan

   The Mysterious Benedict Society--Trenton Lee Stewart
Find a book with gold lettering

   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone--J.K. Rowling

Find a diary (true or fictional)

   Book of a Thousand Days--Shannon Hale
Find a book written by someone with a common name (like Smith)

   The False Prince--Jennifer A. Nielson

   Cryptid Hunters--Roland Smith
Find a book that has a closeup of something on it

   The Lions of Little Rock--Kristin Levine
Find a book on your shelf that takes place in the earliest time period

   Antony and Cleopatra--Shakespeare
Find a hardcover book without a jacket

   Ella Enchanted--Gail Carson Levine
Find a teal/turquoise colored book

   The Fault in Our Stars--John Green
Find a book with stars on it

   Things Not Seen--Andrew Clements
Find a non-YA book

   Poetry 180--Billy Collins

   Mistborn--Brandon Sanderson

Massive Book Haul

So, this book haul was going to be normal sized, but then the library had a big book sale with hard covers for $1 and paperbacks for 50¢.  So I bought 31 books, but I only spent $30.  So bear with me through one of the longest book hauls I think I will ever have.

The Lions of Little Rock--Kristin Levine
The Little Prince--Antoine de Saint Exupery

The Bar Code Tattoo--Suzanne Weyn

The Templeton Twins Have an Idea--Ellis Weiner

One Crazy Summer--Rita Williams-Garcia

Inside Out & Back Again--Thanhha Lai

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate--Jacqueline Kelly

Poetry 180--Billy Collins

Thief Lord--Cornelia Funke
The Little House on the Prairie--Laura Ingalls Wilder
Walk Two Moons--Sharon Creech
Stargirll--Jerry Spinelli
Black Beauty--Anna Sewell
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams
Julie of the Wolves--Jean Craighead George
The Shakespeare Stealer--Gary L. Blackwell
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe--C.S. Lewis
Guys Write for Guys Read--Jon Scieska
Guys Read:  Thriller--Jon Scieska
Robot Dreams--Sara Varon
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul--Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Kimberly Kirberger
Found--Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Wish List--Eoin Colfer
Steel--Carrie Vaughn
The Magician's Elephant--Kate DiCamillo
The Science of Harry Potter--Roger Highfield
Escape from Memory--Margaret Peterson Haddix
Loser--Jerry Spinelli
Heist Society--Ally Carter
Page by Paige--Laura Lee Gulledge
Eragon--Christopher Paolini
The Very Hungry Catipillar--Eric Carle
Hoaxed:  Fakes & Mistakes in the World of Science--YES Mag
The Cat in the Hat--Dr. Seuss
Eyewitness: Mars--Stuart Murray
Off Armageddon Reef--David Weber
By Schism Rent Asunder--David Weber
A Mighty Fortress--David Weber
Puff the Magic Dragon--Peter Yarrow

Hi!  You made it all the way to the bottom of the page.  Thanks for sticking with me.  Have you acquired any books recently?  Have you read any of the ones I go?  Let me know what you think.

Book Haul #6

Forgive the shaky cam.  I need to find a better tripod than a couple of rickety boxes stacked on top of each other.

The False Prince--Jennifer A. Nielsen

We Fought Back--Allan Zullo

This Dark Endeavor--Kenneth Oppel

Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card

Eyes Like Stars--Lisa Mantechev

Want to go Private?--Sarah Darer Littman

Circle of Secrets--Kimberley Griffiths Little

Book Chat: 2013 Bookish Resolutions

I'm not much of a resolutions person, but these are my bookish resolutions for this year.

Book chats are hosted by Misty over at the Book Rat.  Be sure to check out her original post as well as the response posts, and leave your own blog/vlog response.

Where do you find cheap books?

Book Haul #4

Yay, Christmas.  And the start of a new semester.  Both mean new books.

All New Letters from a Nut--Ted L. Nancy

The Name of the Wind--Patrick Rothfus

Growing Bonsai Indoors--Pat Lucke Morris and Sigrun Wolff Saphire

Princess of the Silver Woods--Jessica Day George

Frankenstein:  A Cultural History--Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Frankenstein:  Prodigal Son--Dean Koontz

Did you get any great books for Christmas?

Book Chat: Top Ten Favorite Books I Read In 2012

Misty's book chat for the month at The Book Rat and the Top Ten Tuesday over at The Broke and the Bookish were about our favorite reads for the year.  So I combined my responses to both into one post. 

The Wednesday Wars--Gary Schmidt

Much Ado About Nothing--William Shakespeare

Speak--Laurie Halse Anderson

Leviathan--Scott Westerfeld

Dark Life--Kat Falls

Alloy of Law--Brandon Sanderson

The Humming Room--Ellen Potter

Seraphina--Rachel Hartman

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--Mildred D. Taylor

Entwined--Heather Dixon

Like up your responses in the comments.  Let me know what you think!  What books did you love this year?

Book Haul #3

The class that had book orders is now over, so this is the last book order.  Sad.  I'll just have to find somewhere else to get my books.

Hatchet--Gary Paulsen

Entwined--Heather Dixon

Frog and Toad Are Friends--Arnold Lobel

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies--Laura Numeroff

Because of Winn Dixie--Kate DiCamillo

Superman Versus The Klu Kulx Klan--Rick Bowers

What new books have you acquired?

Book Chat: Spines

I know this is waaaaay late and that the Misty from The Book Rat's November book chat will probably show up later this week, but here at last I've finished my response to her October book chat about book spines.

Books Mentioned:

The Humming Room--Ellen Potter

Breadcrumbs--Anne Ursu

My Life as a Book--Janet Tashjian

The Mysterious Benedict Society--Trenton Lee Stewart

The Maze Runner--James Dashner

Book of a Thousand Days--Shannon Hale

Jane Austen Made Me Do It--Laurel Ann Nattress

1984--George Orwell

Mistborn--Brandon Sanderson

Hero of Ages--Brandon Sanderson

Eats, Shoots & Leaves--Lynn Truss

The Three Musketeers--Alexander Dumas

Be sure to to check out Misty's original video and everyone who as made a response.  If you have any great book spines, be sure to share them.

Book Haul #2

I love book orders.  Just a small haul this time around, but another one is on its way.

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Peterson

Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Pe

I'm nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson

Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner

What books have come into your hands recently?

Book Haul #1

Yay!  The first book haul of my blogging career. This probably won't be a regular feature, because I don't have the budget to by books often, but this month was a little different.  

I'm not sure how the video and sound got unsynched.  Please forgive me.  You can look away from the screen if it truly bothers you.

Tale of Despereaux 

Mistborn 

The Well of Ascension

The Hero of Ages

Leviathan

Behemoth

Goliath

The Giver  (also mentioned Son)

Charlotte's Web

Bunnicula

Holes

The Humming Room

My Life as a Book

A Spy in the House

Jane Austen Made Me Do It  

Let me know what you think of the books if you've read them.

Book Chat: Books for Our Younger Selves

For my first expedition into the world of vlogging and booktube I'm responding to Misty at The Book Rat and her September Book Chat.  This month's chat is all about books that we wish we had read when we were younger, for whatever reason.

My picks:

Dragon Slippers

The Wide Awake Princess

Dealing With Dragons

The Tale of Despereaux

A Tale of Two Castles

Tuesdays at the Castle

The Lightning Thief

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Leviathan

Because of Winn Dixie

Take a look at Misty's original post/video here.  What books do you wish you could give to your younger self?  

P.S.  I couldn't figure out how to continue the audio when I put up a picture.  So, if you know how to do that, please let me know in the comments.