Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Graphic Novel Day

At 5:30 this morning the cc knocked over a pile of books and, well, had a bit of a freak-out. I do have too many books, so I thinned things out a bit. I am returning books unread to the library because I doubt I will get to them any time soon. That got rid of a lot of books. The rest of the books really didn't need to be in a pile on the floor. I have perfectly good shelves they can be on, so that is the plan for the afternoon. Hopefully that will result in less toppling towers of books. I am sure if it wasn't so early in the morning it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but since it was I decided to just try and eradicate the problem.

The third part of my plan is to have a graphic novel day so that I can return them all to the library and get the pile down even further. I probably won't read all of them, but at least it will thin things out a little bit. I haven't been reading as much this year, so the pile is growing and not getting any smaller. I had to do something... Here are the graphic novels I have out from the library:

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
The Baby-sitter's Club: A Graphic Novel - Kristy's Great Idea by Raina Telgemeier
Redwall: The Graphic Novel by Brian Jacques
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia by Gris Grimly
Detroit Metal City: Volume 1 by Kiminori Wakasugi
Amulet: Book Two - The Stonekeeper's Curse by Kazu Kibuishi
Miki Falls - Volume 3 - Autumn by Mark Crilley

12 comments:

  1. Good luck with reading your stack. I really need to do a mini-readathon myself. What did you think of The Baby-Sitters Club? I started buying the graphic series for my daughter last year.

    Happy reading.

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  2. Ooh, I have seen a lot of good things on the photographer one! I hope you prioritize and get to that one :-)

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  3. I'm sadly lacking in graphic novels around my house. I have a few unread--mostly chunksters like From Hell or Watchmen. Those of a normal size are few and far between, and I've read almost all of the ones I'm interested in from the library. Must start finding more!

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  4. Looks like you're making great progress!! I thought about doing that too!!

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  5. Oh my gosh, look how many of those you've knocked off the list! Good for you, Kelly!

    I'm lucky--Rich's books stacks are both as numerous and as teetering as mine. ;)

    Btw, I so owe you an e-mail.

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  6. Do the ones crossed out mean you've read them? I have Pyongyang sitting among my library book stack at the moment, along with a couple other graphic novels (Siberia, Laika and R. Crumb's Genesis) and am planning to read it in February. I don't know why, but I feel like if I read too many graphic novels at once, I'm somehow cheating from the 'real' reading I should be doing. Silly, I know.

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  7. Good luck with your stack!

    I can't go crazy with graphic novels because they're quite pricey over here. :(

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  8. Aaw I soo soo want to read Pyongyang, but it's not available at my libraries :(

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  9. I assume by your crossed off ones that you were able to have your day and got a lot of reading done. I haven't read anything by Mark Crilley for a long time, but I really enjoyed his work when I was reading it.

    Also hope you got some of your shelving done. That plus reading sounds like a wonderful day!!!

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  10. I just can't get myself into graphic novels. It's probably a good thing as I have so many other books to read. I wish I would use the library more instead of buying everything. It just never seems to have the books I want available.

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  11. So have you read The Photographer yet? Really curious to hear about that one! I'm in the mood for a good graphic novel so looking forward to your reviews!

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  12. so many on your list taht I want to read too!

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