A Good Week for Books

In the past few days I've received two shipments from Amazon (related to some binge-buying around my birthday, and gift certificates from two friends), and a box of my old books from my most excellent parents (who are moving, and cleaning out the house). And when I went to library, there were three books that I couldn't resist checking out. And Mheir got me books for my birthday, too. I'm now simply drowning in new books. Now if I could only find the time to actually read them... But it's nice to have such a feeling of plenty. Here's some of the new (and newly rescued) loot. All are children's or young adult books, unless otherwise noted. Yes, I'm definitely a rejuvenile.

• Zilpha Keatley Snyder: The Velvet Room, The Changeling, Below the Root, And All Between, and Until the Celebration. These are lovely reissue editions of some old favorites (I wrote about them here).
• Stephenie Meyer: New Moon (sequel to Twilight, reviewed here). I am dying to read this book, but it's very large, and I'm about to leave on a trip, so I've resisted starting.
• Jennifer Allison: Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
• Kirsten Miller: Kiki Strike
• Tanith Lee: Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas
• Mitali Perkins: Monsoon Summer
• Lisa Yee: Millicent Min, Girl Genius
• O. T. Nelson: The Girl Who Owned A City
• Elizabeth Enright: Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze (a classic!)
• Betty K. Levine: Hex House (one from my childhood that I don't remember much about)
• Avi: Crispin: The Cross of Lead and Crispin: At the Edge of the World
• Michael Buckley: The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects - Book #2
• Marilyn Sachs: Lost in America
• Paul Acampora: Defining Dulcie
• Phyllis Green: Nantucket Summer
• Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
• Robert Crais: The Two Minute Rule (adult mystery)
• Chris Bohjalian: Before You Know Kindness (adult fiction)
• Jon E. Lewis: The Mammoth Book of Pirates: Over 25 True Tales of Devilry and Daring by the Most Infamous Pirates of All Time (non-fiction)

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