Crafting creativity: 52 brilliant ideas for awakening the artistic genius within (52 brilliant ideas series)
– saw this one on a teaser display of the non fiction books they have upstairs. As we didn’t have time to go upstairs thought I’d grab it and have a look. Have peeked at the first chapter/ brilliant idea and I’m hooked, the only problem is that this is obviously a book that’s designed to be read over the course of a year, and I think the library might be a bit cross with me if I kept it that long.
Last of the Wilds (Age of the Five)
I ordered this one after picking up the first of the trilogy on my first visit – good yarns. I’ll be back with a proper review in a day or so.
Kitty Goes to Washington
These ones are kind of chicklit meets horror – sexy werewolves. OK, it’s a bit embarrassing, but I picked one up after seeing it recommended on Ann Aguirre’s blog and actually quite enjoyed it, so when I saw a couple more today, I picked another one up.
Salem Falls
I haven’t read any Jodi Piccoult yet – I bought three boxsets of books last christmas and split them between my three sisters, so I gave them all Jodi Piccoult but not me. I’d probably have borrowed one to read off one of them by now if this had been a normal year, but it hasn’t been, so I haven’t.
Talli’s Secret
I saw this one recommended when I went on a training course to do with autism and relationships – I have no idea which special need it addresses, though I’m sure it does something, but it was the link with Haworth that intrigued me, so I picked it up to see whether it is something Big would like to read. We really must go to the Vicarage at Haworth, I don’t think they’ve been yet, but then again, they’re a bit young to have Bronte’s inflicted on them (and yes, I do consider reading Jane Eyre to be an inflicted punishment, it was completely murdered when I was at school).
Over on the couch behind me, Big and Small are having their first lesson in dtp – they had made certificates for their clubs that they wanted scanning and printing, but it didn’t work too well – they’d used felt tips on drawing paper and it didn’t come out clearly at all. Obviously they have an interest in the technology so right now is the best time for them to learn. This is how it should be. This is how it will be again 🙂
(I’m really looking forward to putting the blogring code back on the blog :grin:)
Oh, Small got books too, he got Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (BBC Audio)
which we’d ordered after he picked it up last week (which seems like a lifetime ago, how weirdly time warps when things are going wrong) and it only had one of the two cds in it. Bizarrely, they’ve put the one cd version only back on the shelves? Oh, and Superheroes Down the Plughole (Super Stars)
which is labelled with a 1, 2 or 3 I forget which which tells us it’s a beginning to read book. He likes to get a couple of these as well as a couple of graphic novels which are not labelled with age ranges 😉
Big got a load of books too, but I’m trying to persuade her to put those on her own blog, so I won’t list them here. We did have a chat about the teen fiction shelves as I think she may enjoy some books that are rated above her age range in library terms, so we went and explored. She was amazed to discover books that are in series she already has, such as the The Princess Diaries
, and I pointed out some stuff by Tamora Pierce including First Test (Protector of the Small)
which I suspect she’ll really enjoy, with the central character being a girl who learns to become a knight. There were also non fiction which included knitting, crochet, writing, manga and stuff about puberty, so I suspect she will drift very quickly over to that section. Well, she is nearly 9 😆
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