While She Knits

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Summer is over, school has started, Megan is back in Ohio knitting a new pair of socks for her upcoming trip to Boston as a Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards Honoree, and thesehnsucht 's recent post brings to mind just how long it has been since we had a WSK conversation.

What books have you read recently that really left an impression on you?  What are the ones on your To Be Read or Upcoming New Release lists that you are simply itching to get at? 

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There's only one book I've read recently that's had a big impact on me. It's a manga, Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno. It's the story of people in Hiroshima, beginning several years after the bomb was dropped in 1945. At first, the book seems a sweet, straightforward story about the impact the bombing had on people's lives, then suddenly--BAM--it twists around your heart. After that, it turns into several stories that intertwine characters and time periods until you don't know if you're coming or going. It's one of those books that is intentionally opaque so that as soon as you finish you want to read it again to pick up on what you missed. I kept thinking about it long after I finished. Highly recommend it.

Earlier in the year I read and loved Finnikin of the Rock by Marchetta. Oh, and All the Broken Pieces by Burg--I read that twice, too, which I hardly ever do.

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I loved Finnikin of the Rock as well. I read it two times, back to back.

I've had a ridiculous course load this semester, so I haven't had much time for reading, but I was able to read The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Vol. I and I really liked it. Cat Chant bugged me for a while because he was passive and just let his sister behave like a monster for most of the book. He does have potential to be awesome, though, like Christopher Chant.

I, too, can't wait for Pegasus and Monsters of Men -- I just hope I can find the time to read both of them when they come out. Oh, and I am also excited for The Curse of the Wendigo, the sequel to The Monstrumologist to come out as well. I had to read the latter for my YA lit course this past summer and I surprisingly liked it. I'm normally not a fan of horror, but this was written more along the lines of Dracula and Frankenstein than Stephen King.