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Walked to the library in a miserable funk. And then in the park there was a pigeon gliding--not a flap of its wings, just a gray missile swooping across the whole length of the park on the wind--and that made me feel a bit better. As did the subsequent butterfly. The world may be full of misery and heat and people disagreeing with each other very loudly, but even in the city nature is doing its nature-y thing. Flowers and flying things. They make the world a bit better.
Today's library haul:
Aventura Vol. 1, Shin Midorikawa. (It appears to be a fluffy manga series about a boy wizard. Picked it up as part of my general attempt to broaden my tastes in manga.)
The Wide-Awake Princess, E.D. Baker. (I seem to be on a reading kick lately for fairy tale retellings with a more modern sensibility. And did I mention Breadcrumbs was awesome? Because it was.)
Wishing for Tomorrow, Hilary McKay. (A sequel to A Little Princess, following the girls left behind at school. I plan to reread aLP and then go through this one; read good reviews about how it treats the original respectfully without replicating its views on Class and so forth.)
Japan Ai: A tall girl's adventures in Japan, Aimee Major Steinberger. (Graphic novel about visiting Japan. Looks cute and informative.)
Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality, Helen Scales, Ph.D. (Seahorses! Who doesn't love seahorses? Was sold on it by a Goodreads review that complained it stuck too close to its subject matter.)
How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier. (The title was enough to make me want to read this one.)
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey. (Good reviews, I'd like to read more non-fiction in general, and it sounds like it should have interesting science stuff in it without being over my head.)
Today's library haul:
Aventura Vol. 1, Shin Midorikawa. (It appears to be a fluffy manga series about a boy wizard. Picked it up as part of my general attempt to broaden my tastes in manga.)
The Wide-Awake Princess, E.D. Baker. (I seem to be on a reading kick lately for fairy tale retellings with a more modern sensibility. And did I mention Breadcrumbs was awesome? Because it was.)
Wishing for Tomorrow, Hilary McKay. (A sequel to A Little Princess, following the girls left behind at school. I plan to reread aLP and then go through this one; read good reviews about how it treats the original respectfully without replicating its views on Class and so forth.)
Japan Ai: A tall girl's adventures in Japan, Aimee Major Steinberger. (Graphic novel about visiting Japan. Looks cute and informative.)
Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality, Helen Scales, Ph.D. (Seahorses! Who doesn't love seahorses? Was sold on it by a Goodreads review that complained it stuck too close to its subject matter.)
How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier. (The title was enough to make me want to read this one.)
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, Richard Fortey. (Good reviews, I'd like to read more non-fiction in general, and it sounds like it should have interesting science stuff in it without being over my head.)
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