Listful Monday: A Collection of Signed Books

Many of you posted about your signed books last week. You know I couldn't be left out of that! So I decided to share my signed books as part of Listful Monday this week since the theme is A Collection. Most of my signed books are by my local author favorites, with a few others thrown in. Here's a list of most of them I think:

1. Orson Scott Card (2)
2. Brandon Mull (3)
3. Stephenie Meyer (2)
4. Obert Skye (2)
5. Brandon Sanderson (3)
6. Shannon Hale (6?)
7. Nathan Hale (2)
8. Dean Hale (2)
9. Mette Ivie Harrison (3)
10. James Dashner (8)
11. J. Scott Savage (2)
12. Ann Cannon (1)
13. Aprilynne Pike (1)
14. Richard Peck (4)
15. Dan Wells (1)
16. Lisa Mangum (1)
17. Angela Morrison (2)
18. Frank L. Cole (1)
19. Kathryn Stockett (1)
20. Bree Despain (1)

The longest lines? Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Mull and Richard Peck, Orson Scott Card
Most personal? Shannon Hale, James Dashner, J. Scott Savage
Quickest? Kathryn Stockett
Slowest? Richard Peck
Most prized? Stephenie Meyer, Orson Scott Card, Richard Peck
Funniest? The Shannon, Dean and Nathan trio
Most by one author? James Dashner, with Shannon Hale coming in second
Authors I have signed bookplates from: Avi and Meg Cabot

Signatures I hope to get some day, both realistic and un:

Markus Zusak
John Green
Sara Zarr
Jessica Day George
Megan Whalen Turner
Patrick Ness
M.T. Anderson
Sarah Dessen
Robin McKinley
Neil Gaiman
... and many many others!

Did I post too many pictures? That's what you called getting carried away! But I have just one more... here's the portrait that Nathan Hale drew of Toto, which looks so much like her, it's amazing! How does he DO that?

Okay, so that was fun! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! :)

Listful Monday: Reading Hazards

Once again, Julie (A Small Accomplishment) has come up with a creative list theme.... what hazards are involved with being a reader....so here's my stab at it:

My Reading Hazards

1. Heavy Lid Syndrome: Don't you hate it when you sit down to read and then suddenly, you find your eyes just refuse to stay open?

2. Turning Blue: I find that if I sit still for very long somehow I'm suddenly freezing. What's up with that? Old age you say? No way!

3. Child Neglect: "Hey Mom, can you tuck me in now?" "MOM!! I need help!" "Mom? Where's my book/shoes/keys/phone/food/?"  Mom says, "Will you PLEASE leave me alone... I'm reading!!!"

4. Oh My Aching Neck: Do you ever have a problem getting you head positioned just right and comfortable for reading?

5. Dirty House: because why clean when you can read?

6. Telephone Torture: Do you find that as soon as you finally have a moment to read, you sit down, get all comfortable, then the telephone rings?

7. Too Many Books and Not Enough Time: quite the cliche phrase, but so very very true. And if anyone ever says "there's nothing to read' in my presence.... beware.

8. The Headache: the age old "I've been reading too much" ailment. But why let a little headache stop you? That's what ibuprofen is for!

9. Guilty Guilty Guilty: there's that constant voice inside my head that I'm always ignoring, you know, that one that says, "Seriously! Shouldn't you be doing something else!?"

10. Emotional Overload: I have told you I sometimes get a bit wrapped up and involved in my book reading, right?


Join us and make your own list! Let me know if you do, so I can come see.

Listful Monday: My Library Layout

... as in my personal at home library... not my public library as I thought this meant at first!

Back when I got my new bookshelves, I had a blast organizing books in what now truly felt like a real library corner. However, I stopped before I really got finished, so it's sort of organized and sort of not. Here's what sections I have in my very own personal library:

Pretty hardback books
Christmas books
YA hardback series
Yearbooks
Paperback picture books
Hardback picture books
Non-fiction picture books
Non-fiction
Several shelves worth of classics, alphabetized by author
Several shelves worth of contemporary/literary/ general fiction, alphabetized by author
Award winners
Newbery winners
ARCS/Unbound manuscripts
Children's Classics
Children's series
YA and MG all mixed up together (here's where I really need to organize a bit more)
Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys shelf
Orson Scott Card shelf
Dr. Suess shelf
Old books
Church books
College books
Magazines
Photo Albums
An entire bookcase of TBR books waiting ever so patiently
Misc. weird stuff that I'll probably never read and/or I don't know where it came from!

How are your shelves in your own library organized?

Listful Monday brought to you today by Julie at A Small Accomplishment. Be sure to go check out her list too!

Listful Monday: Book Pet Peeves

Today's list task, as suggested by Julie at A Small Accomplishment, is to list:

Book Pet Peeves

1. I hate it when I get a book from the library that has crusted food on it! Ewww.
2. I cringe when I see a book, open and laying face down on it's pages.
3. I'm bugged when I see someone, while reading a paperback book, folding it's front and wrapping it around to the back.
4. Dog ears... very very bad.
5. Do not throw books!!!
6. Or step on them!
7. Or read them with sticky fingers.
8. I really really hate blurbs that give away a main plot point.
9. And if you plan on taking the dust jacket off, please please put it in a safe place somewhere. I hate it when books and dust jackets lose each other.
10. ... and for all my other pet peeves you can read Julie's list, because I pretty much agree with everything she said.

What are YOUR book pet peeves?

Listful Monday: Where Do You Do It?

Today's Listful Monday, brought to you by A Small Accomplishment, is to list places where you read, or have read.

1. On my bed
2. On my "piano room" couch
3. In the travel trailer
4. In the car, while driving long distances (as a passenger)
5. In the car, while waiting for kids
6. At the table
7. In various waiting rooms
8. In the funky chair in my book nook
9. On a plane
10. Waiting at the airport
12. On a cruise ship... various many places there
13. On many different beaches
14. During commercials
15. In the hall at a movie theater while waiting to be let in
16. In the middle of music programs
17. In the middle of Primary Program practice (during the readathon last year!)
18. During church
19. On the patio deck
20. At the pool
21. During kids' soccer games
22. In the mountains, while everyone else is fishing
23. Under the tree, on a blanket, in the backyard
24. Yes, in the bathroom
25. In a tent with a flashlight

Okay okay, I'll stop now!
Want to play? Head on over to A Small Accomplishment and leave a link to your list.

Listful Mondays: Book Suggestions from Days of Yore

Julie from A Small Accomplishment has created a new blog feature. It's called Listful Mondays and the idea is to make a list around the theme she comes up with... or not. It's whatever you feel like she says. I'm hoping this will get me going on my Suey's Top Ten idea I had awhile back, but have slacked off in doing, because I'm sure some of these lists will go hand in hand with that. 


This theme for this first one is:


Books suggested/given to you. Books from your formative years.


Once upon a time, when I was about 12 years old or so, I went to a family reunion. While there, my dad introduced me to his cousin who was a librarian I think. He told his cousin, "This kids likes to read. Can you give her a list of some good books?" So he wrote me a list, a piece of paper that I cherished for years, but have since lost I'm sure. Many of those books were current Newbery winners (we're talking the 70's here!). But whenever I come across them even now, I think about that list. I'm pretty sure I read every single book on the list, and they opened up a whole new world of "good" books.


Here's what I can remember from that list:


Island of the Blue Dolphins
Julie of the Wolves
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A Wrinkle in Time
A Cricket in Times Square


.... and I wish I could remember more! I wonder where that paper ended up! It's probably still at my parent's home, stashed in some memento box. 


Other books I remember reading around this time:


The Riddle Master of Hed
Pollyanna
Mandy
Lilies of the Field
How to Eat Fried Worms


What do you remember reading from when you around 12 years old? Make your list and share!