Sunday Synopsis: February 28, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENT:  Literary Locals is typically posted on the last day of every month.  Due to multiple entries on this day, I will be moving the monthly feature to the first of every month!  Things have been a bit crazy around here, so for the month of March only, I will be posting it later in the week.  Be watching for it to share your own literary locals!!


DISCUSSIONS:

• The Stand Read-A-Long
• Fairy Tale Fridays:  The Monkey and the Camel

GIVEAWAY:  Fairy Tale Giveaway .  . . The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (Only a few hours left!!!)

REVIEWS:  Poe Fridays:  The End

CURRENTLY READING:  

• The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (audio; disc 2 of 8)  
• Calamity Jack by Shannon and Dean Hale (page 76 of 144)
• Magic Tree House #3:  Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne (page 51 of 65)

BOOKS RECEIVED:  

• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (library sale)
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (library sale)
• Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike (library sale)
• See You Later by Christopher Pike (library sale)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (library sale)
• Nefertiti by Michelle Moran (library sale)
• The Cave by Jose Saramago (library sale)

REVIEWS TO COME:

• Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
• Across the Endless River by Thad Carhart
• Magic Tree House #2:  The Knight at Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Magic Tree House #1:  Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne
• Only in New York, Darling by Virginie Sommet
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Shimmer by David Morrell
• Royal Blood by Rona Sharon
• The End of the Beginning by Avi
• Matchless by Gregory Maguire
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Daniel X: Watch the Skies by James Patterson & Ned Rust
• King by Right of Blood and Might by Anna L. Walls
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Arthur's Audio Favorites Volume 2 by Marc Brown
• A Circle of Souls by Preetham Grandhi
• Dancing with Ana by Nicole Barker
• George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World by Tracy Kidder
• Fool by Christopher Moore
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• The Little Island by Golden MacDonald and Leonard Weisgard
• Black and White by David Macauley
• Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
• Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Rocky Mountain Snow Ghosts by Patti Hurst
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
• Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary
• The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• S is for Save the Planet by Brad Herzog
• The Ugly Duckling by Jerry Pinkney

AROUND THE BLOGOSPHERE:  A while ago, My Friend Amy wrote a very nice little article about the death of some very well-known authors.  If you have not yet read it, I suggest you do!  

FINAL THOUGHTS:  I have finally had a few free minutes to get a new book club in my area organized and tomorrow night is our first meeting!!  I can't wait to get back in the groove of having a monthly book group and I am so excited to see what books we choose!  I will try to post which books my group will be reading.  Maybe you would like to read along?!?!  :)

Happy March!!!