What are you reading in November 2009?

I've been exploring multi-format books that incorporate interesting visual, video, or web elements. I just reviewed three, so you can check out the reviews.

Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman was my favorite. Written for kids, it's written in a journal form with videos you can watch as you read.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larson is a quirky novel about a boy with a talent for drawing maps.

Personal Effect: Dark Arts by J.C. Hutchins and Jordon Weisman contains supplemental materials and websites, but I was a little disappointed that the additional materials didn't connect more closely to the story.

Personal Effect is on my wish list..gonna have to get that one from you!! Ive heard good and bad things about it..but would love to see for myself.

I finished Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo..I really liked it...

Started Snow Melts In Spring...and it's real good so far!!

I am SO far behind on reviews..might have to just do short reviews to get everything done!!

I just read and reviewed Imaginative Realism by James Gurney. This was an excellent book!

I read and reviewed The Vietnam War: A Graphic History by Dwight Zimmerman.

During early November I read The Last Founding Father by Harlow Giles Unger. It was very good and enlightening in the detail it added to this important American.

I then read Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls and then her earlier book, Glass Castle. Both were excellent for what they are... memoirs. The former is a fictional memoir about her grandmother's life based on what her mother told her. The Glass Castle, written first, actually picks up where the Half Broke Horses left off, but it is a true memoir - really a story of her own life, and that of her parents and siblings.