Books Read in June 2008

By A Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman. Not bad, but I’ve already forgotten the details.

The Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman. Semicolon review here.

You Know Where To Find Me by Rachel Cohn. Semicolon review here.

The Missing: Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Semicolon review here.

Abbeville by Jack Fuller. Semicolon review here.

100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson. Semicolon review here.

Blue Like Friday by Siobhan Parkinson. Semicolon review here.

When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin. Semicolon review here.

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry.

Messenger by Lois Lowry.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton. Semicolon review here.

The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish by Claudia Mills. A divorce book. I got mad at the parents, felt sorry for Amanda, and wanted the author to tell her characters, especially the dad, to grow up and take responsibility.

Don’t Talk To Me About the War by David A. Adler.

Shift by Jennifer Bradbury. A road trip turns into a mystery turns into a coming of age story about two buddies who choose different roads to adulthood.

Chasing Normal by Lisa Papademetriou. Semicolon review here.

Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume. Semicolon review here.

Old School by Tobias Wolff.

My Enemy’s Cradle by Sara Young. Semicolon review here.

Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom. Semicolon review here.

Best Book Read this Month: Old School by Tobias Wolff. I’l try to review it soon.

Second prize for the month: The Man Who Was Thursday, since I’m still thinking about it.

Several of the others were pretty good, too. It was a good reading month.

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