‎"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steven Jobs, Stanford commencement address, 2005.

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Melissa Singleton Josef is an MLIS K-12 certified teacher librarian and author of The Suburban Barnyard as well as an environmental education resource blog called The Green Room. She is passionate about education and information literacy in all of its evolving formats as well as good old traditional love of reading. She is eclectic in her interests from science to art and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1991 with an undergraduate BAAS degree majoring in English/Business and Technical Writing and minoring in Fine Arts. She has traveled throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, and Europe and speaks both French and Japanese. She is currently in search of a full-time teaching position and spends her time writing novels, children's books, blogging, job searching, and substitute teaching PT in all teaching positions K-12.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Maggie Stiefvater's Top Reads for 2011



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Maggie Stiefvater starts off the new year on her blog by posting her top five favorite reads of the year.  I read several of her reviews throughout the year and always enjoyed them as she is one of my favorite YA authors.  In fact, her most recent book, The Scorpio Races, was one of my favorite reads for 2011.  It is a wonderful fantasy that I wrote about earlier in the fall that brings life to the myth of the water horse through the tale of two wonderful young people.

Maggie's Top Reads of 2011 were:

Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
The Big Bad Wolf & Me by Delphine Perret
Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Monstrumologist  by Rick Yancey


I have to admit to only having read half of this list myself, although those that I have read, I agree wholeheartedly with Maggie's reviews.  Shipbreaker was the Printz award winner this past year and one of the best written dystopias I've read to date.  The Night Circus almost sits in a category all of its own.  Anansi Boys is probably my favorite book by Neil Gaiman aside from The Graveyard Book.  The Monstrumologist scared the dickens out of me -- I decided after reading it that Rick Yancy is our modern day Poe.


Thanks for sharing your reviews Maggie!  Not only are you a terrific author, but you recommend other terrific authors!
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