What I’m Going to Read: Round 9
And the winner is Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt, suggested by one of my lovely Texas friends, Alison K. And just in time, too, as I finished Dealing with Dragons just yesterday.
I also put several of the books you suggested on hold, so we’ll see how many I can manage to get through this month. Cross your fingers for me.
Other non-winning bids:
- Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (Tootie)
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (Chrissie)
- Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff (P)
- One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus (Jle122)
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Shelly)
- Beauty by Robin McKinley (Suey and Merry)
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett (RA, Em and Trev, Yankee Girl, and Mom)
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth (Carly Jane and Deborah)
- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois (Jenny)
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Melanie)
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (Kayla)
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Smalldog)
- Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger (Katie)
- It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong (Crafty Ashley)
- A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins (Kimberly)
- There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar (Jessica)
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Sherry)
- The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science by Todd Tucker (Poodle)
- Matilda by Roald Dahl (Abby)
- The Road Home by Ellen Emerson White (Angiegirl)
- Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (Saskia)
- The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer (Mary)
- The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier (Angela Noelle)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Miri)
- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (Peaceful Reader)
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong (Laurie)
Of these, I’ve read:
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (although Kayla tells me it doesn’t count because I didn’t read it in the original Russian, so you know, take it for what you will)
- Beauty by Robin McKinley
and, a new category – books I might possibly have read but cannot actually remember because I am suddenly becoming old and probably can’t remember my own address anymore:
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
OH I LOVE Jackaroo. I've read this book I don't know how many times. I could still tell you exactly where to find it on my mom's downstairs bookshelf… I don't know what it was about this style of book, but I read every single one I could get my hands on :). Cynthia Voigt is one of my all-time favorite authors.
Okay, I see from your list that you haven't read Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss, and I would like to say that you definitely should. It's short and absolutely hilarious and I think you'd like it.
Enjoy! This was one of my daughter's favorites.
Yay, I love Cynthia Voigt!
Oh man, oh man, oh man. I am so happy at this result. I read "On Fortune's Wheel" (in the same loosely-connected series) when I was in middle school and it is one of my all-time favorites. I was actually going through a reading drought at the time and the book made me love reading again. You should definitely read the whole series if you like Jackaroo.
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Yep, JACKAROO's a winner. Enjoy!
Ohhh, I'm glad you've read Matilda! And I'm glad you picked Jackaroo – I love that one, too! Jackaroo was one of my picks for the Unsung YA project!
I hope you've read Tuck Everlasting-it's very good. I'll have to look Jackaroo on my list-seems like a great choice.