I was originally hoping to take a picture of Juliet running off with a book in her hands for this prompt. But, in the last few days I only thought of the picture at moments when she was sleeping or in the bathtub or something, and it just didn't pan out.
So instead, I snapped a pic of a few books-in-motion outside on the front porch again. I'm pretty sure my neighbors think I'm insane as a result of #31bookspics actually.
These books are in motion on a couple of levels: first, they're hanging out on Juliet's 'motorcycle' (a recent first birthday acquisition), second, I couldn't resist fancy photo effects to add a little implied movement, and third, they're a trilogy about teenage time-travelers, so there is a lot of motion in the books! I really love this series; if I had any extra time I would give them a re-read!
Have you read the Ruby Red Trilogy?
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by Leigh Bardugo. The first in the Grisha trilogy. I loved books one and two, and can't wait for book three to come out next year. They're magical fantasy, set in a fictional land called Ravka, which is much like imperial Russia. Orphan Alina Starkov is in the army with her best friend Mal; but when they're attacked by vicious man-eating creatures called volcra, Alina summons a power she didn't even know she had to save him.
by Bill Bryson. The story of the summer of 1927 basically sums up America in the 1920s. It's full of politics, baseball, aviation, eugenics, Prohibition, music, Hollywood, and more. The audio version, read by Bryson, is a lot of fun.
by Maggie Stiefvater. My author crush on Maggie only continues to grow. These books are so. good. She writes teenage boys remarkably well; the relationships between somewhat psychic Blue Sargent and the gang of boys from Aglionby (first introduced in The Raven Boys) are brought out even more in this sequel. And the Owen Glendower mythology gets more and more interesting. Cannot WAIT for the rest of the quartet to be published.
by Rob Lowe. This one was remarkably funny on audio. Lowe reads it himself, and inevitably namedrops a lot as he talks about the stars he's worked with. Now whenever I see someone on tv (like Michael J Fox or Charlie Sheen) I think about stories from this book.
by Jo Baker. I have kind of a love/hate relationship with this one. I would've really liked the book except that it's loosely about the Bennets. (It's a story of the servants of the Bennets of Pride and Prejudice, and while the main text is about only the servants, the family members make occasional entries into the story). But it's depressing how unflattering a servant's take on some of my favorite literary characters can be!
by Keith Houston. I can't stop quoting this one to people. I've explained the history of the interrobang and the octothorpe a bunch of times. Amazing 
by Sonali Deraniyagala. Sonali's husband, two sons, and parents were all killed in the southeast Asian tsunami on December 26, 2004. Wave is her account of living life without them over the next seven years; it's agonizing but incredible. I listened to it on audiobook and sobbed and sobbed. Months later I keep thinking about it.
by Kate Morton. More than any other of her books, this one contains a tragedy that hinges on one tiny moment. I keep dreaming about it, and trying to change that moment to make a happy ending. Haunting.
by Elizabeth Wein. Hm. Are you noticing the trend that I only remember the sad books? This one tells the story of a young British spy captured in France by the Gestapo. Her story is sad, and yet funny and touching and sweet. Another tearjerker though - be sure to have tissues handy!
by Stephen King. I felt a little smug this year in November when people did all those 50th anniversary retrospectives on Kennedy, because I was like, "I know all this!" This book is an exhaustive history of the Kennedy assassination + alternate history + absorbing time travel + a love story. To fit all that in, King needed all 900+ pages! He also apparently needed to use the word obdurate incessantly. I was surprised how much I liked it though; and how much I've found myself harking back to it.
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by Kerstin Gier. They're really fun YA fantasy about a girl named Gwyneth Shepherd, who, after turning sixteen, discovers that she's the last in a line of secret time travelers. Alas for poor Gwen, time traveling is a lot scarier and much more of a nuisance than it sounds, and her life just got infinitely complicated. I loved these books because (a) Gwen is an awesome character - very real, and likeable, and not nearly as annoyingly second-guess-y as a lot of YA heroines. And because (b) I'm a little burned out on dystopic/ post-apocalyptic books. It was nice to find a fun trilogy that's just straight up time-travel.
which I started in Seattle. Unoriginal, but ok on audio.
; and can't wait for book 2 to come out in September. It's like 
all grown up... kind of like what Lev Grossman's The Magicians
books did for the Narnia books (although without about 5% of the swear words that 
had). I just love Stiefvater's writing, and I only hate her a tiny bit for being the author of so many bestsellers even though she's only a year older than me.
-- book 1 of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. There really is a lot of howling (which somehow I didn't expect, despite the title). I keep thinking that the narrator's throat must've hurt while recording!
