As you can see, I got a lot of books for my birthday. Here's a list of everything and who got me what:
from Jean:
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
The Poet's Notebook (a poetry journal full of quotes)
from my grandparents:
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
from my mom and dad:
Physik by Angie Sage
Back to the Divide by Elizabeth Kay
Dragons: The Greatest Stories by varied authors
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
The Valley of Secrets by Charmian Hussey
The Hand Of The Devil by Dean Vincent Carter
I'd Tell You That I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter
Best Dog Stories by varied authors
The World of King Arthur and His Court by Kevin Crossley Holland
what I bought with my birthday money:
Icefire by Chris D'Lacey
Finding Redbird by Sharon Creech
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner
A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Leonardo's Shadow by Christopher Grey
I also got an Amazon gift certificate from my Uncle Tony and Aunt Amy that I haven't used yet.
Thank you everyone!!!
Now I am off to add some of these to my challenge lists!
7 comments:
These are all great choices, Annie! I love Sharon Creech and really enjoyed Finding Redbird. I also absolutely loved A Great and Terrible Beauty. In fact, I'm currently reading the 3rd in the series, The Sweet Far Thing. I can't wait to hear what you think about it, since I was just recommending it to my daughter, who is your age.
Wow! All of those should keep you going for what? A week? A few days? However quickly you read them, I hope you enjoy most if not all of them, and take something special away from each one.
Ooh, you've got a lot of really good books there, Annie! I can't wait to read your reviews!
(My personal favourite of all those you received is Ally Carter's I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You!)
What a great haul! Those should keep you busy for about a week :P
I especially look forward to your thoughts on Card's book on writing...I'm very curious about that one!
Jean--
I'm not going to read them all right away--I want to save some. But still...
Court--
Yeah, that one looks really good!
Nymeth--I'm interested to read his writing book, too!
--Annie
Wow you got some great books there! I'm totally jealous. I hope you enjoy Speaker for the Dead. I just finished and LOVED it.
I said so on your mom's site but I'll give you a belated Happy Birthday here as well. Great haul of books there! I read the Orson Scott Card book years ago, and his other nonfiction book on writing, and absolutely loved them both. Valley of Secrets looks really interesting, I'm going to have to look that one up.
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