Now that my commute is solo for at least 30-60 minute stretches, I've been burning up the book list. I was worried that I wouldn't have the resources of a library nearby, but I shouldn't have worried: the Collins branch of the Cambridge Public is right behind my building. It's tiny, but I've been able to find some good reads, and the librarians are super-nice.
Case in point: Devilish by Maureen Johnson. I saw it as a suggestion on the Minuteman Link, and couldn't find it on the shelves. One of the librarians--who'd just read it--heard me, and quickly found it. It's fun: a quirky-smart-punk chick fights a demon who's shown up at her high school in Providence.
Finished the Twilight series (loved Breaking Dawn), and am looking forward to the movie. Working on the second book of the Percy Jackson series--why isn't this the next big thing for Harry Potter fans? And the Martha Speaks show is premiering soon on PBS, which Owen is looking forward to, too. One of my co-workers is also a Neil Gaiman fan, and she lent me an advance copy of The Graveyard Book that a friend of hers found in a used bookshop. It's a really fun read, with echoes of several other books in a very different setting (loved it!).
I've been favoring the Visual Bookshelf on Facebook over Good Reads, just because it's there, it's fairly easy, and I'm starting to get website-d out. I did update Good Reads for now, but should anyone notice the difference, there it is.
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Tracey, another good fantasy series (I think there's only one book in it so far) is C.E. Murphy's "Negotiator" series. The first book is Heart of Stone. It's about a human who winds up being a go-between for all these races of immortals that live under the radar in her city. Lots of fun!
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