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These are the books I read in the past two months. My thoughts on them can be found at bookfrog.

Very Hard Choices, Spider Robinson
.357 Vigilante #1, Ian Ludlow (Lee Goldberg)
Springblade 2: Machete, Greg Walker
Dagger 1: The Centaur Conspiracy, Carl Stevens
Dear Dumb Diary, School. Hasn't This Gone on Long Enough?; Jim Benton
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead, James Lee Burke
The Art of Murder, Jose Carlos Somoza translated by Nick Caistor
Tentacles, Roland Smith
Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
Edge of Dark Water, Joe R. Lansdale
After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh
Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Kyril Bonfiglioli
The Martian Child, David Gerrold
Size 12 is Not Fat, Meg Cabot
Shock Value, Jason Zinoman
Fiction Ruined My Family, Jeanne Darst
You're Not Doing it Right, Michael Ian Black
Death of an Artist, Kate Wilhelm
Black Angel, John Connolly
Size 14 is Not Fat Either, Meg Cabot
Close to Famous, Joan Bauer
Cold Cereal, Adam Rex
Sanctuary Hill, Kathryn R. Wall
Mortdecai's Endgame, Kyril Bonfiglioli
For Fear of Little Men, John Blackburn

Today the librarian who helped me said she was always amazed at what I fit in my book bag. "It's like a TARDIS in there," I believe were her words.

Except comic books, this is what I read in January. You can find my thoughts on these books in twelve entries I wrote today, at bookfrog.

Mortal Stakes, Robert B. Parker
Billy Bones, Christopher Lincoln
The Book of Lists: Horror
The Last Days, Scott Westerfield
The Future of Us, Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
Buried in Books: A Reader's Anthology
Screen Burn, Charlie Brooker
A Day for Damnation, David Gerrold
A Rage for Revenge, David Gerrold
The White People and Other Stories, Arthur Machen
Dawn of the Dumb, Charlie Brooker
Demon Seed, Dean Koontz

Here are the books I managed to get through in December--most of them, anyway. My thoughts on them are at bookfrog.

The Infernals, John Connolly
Every Thing On It, Shel Silverstein
Haunted Legends
Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
He Is Legend
Very Bad Deaths, Spider Robinson
A Matter for Men, David Gerrold
Friday the 13th: Road Trip, Eric Morse

I barely finished anything I started last month. Here's the list of what I did get through. You can find my thoughts on these books at bookfrog.

Midnight Movie, Tobe Hooper & Alan Goldsher
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, Patton Oswalt
Squelch, John Halkin
Friday the 13th: The Carnival, Eric Morse
Mr. Hands, Gary A. Braunbeck
Tigerlily's Orchids, Ruth Rendell
Hooked on Horror, Anthony J. Fonseca & June Michele Pulliam
Way to Go, Smith!; Bob Smith
The Involuntary Human, David Gerrold
Buffalo Brenda, Jill Pinkwater

Here are most of the books I read in August. You can find my thoughts on them at bookfrog.

The Year of the Angry Rabbit, Russell Braddon
Storky, D.L. Garfinkle
Official Book Club Selection, Kathy Griffin
The Minus Man, Lew McCreary
The Dead of Night, John Marsden
Friday the 13th: Jason's Curse, Eric Morse
Blood Worm, John Halkin
The Brightonomicon, Robert Rankin
The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker
Slither, John Halkin
The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
Among the Dolls, William Sleator
The Hole, Guy Burt
The Unholy, John Halkin
The Wicker Man, Robin Hardy & Anthony Shaffer
V: the Second Generation, Kenneth Johnson
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

Here's most of what I read in June. My thoughts on these books are here: bookfrog.

Long May She Reign, Ellen Emerson White
Let the Right One in, John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated by Ebba Segerberg
The White Road, John Connolly
Fugue State, Brian Evenson
Leaving a Trace, Alexandra Johnson
An Idiot Girl's Christmas, Laurie Notaro
Amelia Rules!: True Things (Adults Don't Want Kids to Know), Jimmy Gownley
Hyenas, Joe R. Lansdale
Demon Night, J. Michael Straczynski
Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones
Zombie Vs. Unicorn
Buried, Robin Merrow MacCready
The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte, translated by Sonia Soto
Humble Pie, Ann Dimock
Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal, Russell Brand
Jack: Secret Circles, F. Paul Wilson
Spilling Ink, Anne Mazer & Ellen Potter
Cryptid Hunters, Roland Smith
Dramarama, E. Lockhart

Here's a list of most of the books I read in April. My thoughts on them can be found here: bookfrog.

The New Dead
Stop in the Name of Pants!, Louise Rennison
Angst! Teen Verses from the Edge
Wizard's Hall, Jane Yolen
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly, Joyce Hansen
Attaboy, Sam!; Lois Lowry
Into the Wild, Sarah Beth Durst
Picture This, Lynda Barry
Stickers: Stuck Up Pieces of Crap
Shadow, K.J. Parker
Tomorrow, When the War Began; John Marsden
Wildside, Steven Gould
Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
This Place has No Atmosphere, Paula Danziger
The Illumination, Kevin Brockmeier
G-Man: Learning to Fly, Chris Giarrusso
Jack: Secret Histories, F. Paul Wilson
Nanny McPhee: The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda, Christianna Brand
Nightmare Man, Tessa Krailing
The Christmas Killer, Patricia Windsor
The Watcher in the Woods, Florence Engel Randall
All on a Winter's Day, Lisa Taylor
Trial by Journal, Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise
Accomplice, Eireann Corrigan
Changing Pitches, Steve Kluger
The Gates, John Connolly
Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
Bullpen, Steve Kluger
Essential The Punisher Vol. 2

These are the books I read in February. My thoughts on them can be found here: bookfrog.

Britten and Brülightly, Hannah Berry
The Big Book of Top Gear 2010
Slave Day, Rob Thomas
Treasure of Greene Knowe, L.M. Boston
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream, Wade Rouse
Heaven is High, Kate Wilhelm
White Time, Margo Lanagan
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
The Descent, Jeff Long
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte & Rick Geary
United Tates of America, Paula Danziger
The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones
The River at Green Knowe, L.M. Boston
Fly on the Wall, E. Lockhart
A Catskill Eagle, Robert B. Parker
The Night Bookmobile, Audrey Niffenegger
Princess on the Brink, Meg Cabot

Here are most of the books I read in December. My thoughts on them are at bookfrog.

Monster Zoo, Doug TenNapel
Sweet Sixteen Princess, Meg Cabot
Role Models, John Waters
Our Lady of Pain, John Blackburn
Ghostopolis, Doug TenNapel
My Little Red Book
Ace of Cakes, Duff Goldman & Willie Goldman
Bloom County the Complete Library Volumes 2 & 3, Berkely Breathed
The Complete Peanuts: 1977 to 1978, Charles Schulz
Cancer on $5 a Day*, Robert Schimmel with Alan Eisenstock
Smile, Raina Telgemeier
Showcase Presents: The House of Secrets Volume One
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales, Gahan Wilson
Blade: Black and White
500 Essential Cult Books
French Postcards: an Album of Vintage Erotica
Showcase Presents: Secrets of Sinister House

These are the books I read in October. My thoughts on them can be found at bookfrog.

Get Well Soon, Julie Halpern
No Blade of Grass, John Christopher
Free for All, Don Borchert
Anastasia Again, Lois Lowry
The Buzzing, Jim Knipfel
Seven Footprints to Satan, A. Merritt
Hey, Day!, Clea Hantman & Keva Marie
Son of Interflux, Gordon Korman
one of those hideous books where the mother dies, Sonya Sones
Contents Under Pressure, Lara M. Zeises
Superf*ckers, James Kochalka
The Complete Peanuts, 1975 to 1976; Charles Schulz
Alien Sex
The Portable Dad, Steve Elliot
Outside the Dog Museum, Jonathan Carroll
Love is a Many Trousered Thing, Louise Rennison
Set to Sea, Drew Weing
Modesty Blaise, Peter O'Donnell
The Dreamers, Roger Manvell
Last Days of Summer, Steve Kluger