- Preacher Vol. 7 (Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon)
- Batman: Haunted Knight (Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale)
- Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
- Preacher Vol. 8 (Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon)
- My Swordhand is Singing (Marcus Sedgewick)
- Shadow of the Hegemon (Orson Scott Card) - everyone second-guessing everyone else gets tiring
- The Time-Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) - very engaging, fondness for non-scifi time travel stories (e.g., Frequency), appreciate the futility of time-traveling if you cannot change events (causal loops)
- The Thief Lord (Cornelia Funke)
- Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales (Valerie Paradiz)
- The Night Monkeys: More Palanca Prize Winners for Children
- Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling)
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Süskind) - <I>In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"-the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.</I> chilling, lyrical, absorbing, not gory.
- Dead Until Dark (Charlaine Harris)
- The Complete Bone Adventures Vol. 1 (Jeff Smith)
- The Complete Bone Adventures Vol. 2 (Jeff Smith)
- Bone Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm (Jeff Smith)
- Bone Vol. 4: The Dragonslayer (Jeff Smith)
- Bone Vol. 5: Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border (Jeff Smith)
- Bone Vol. 6: Old Man's Cave (Jeff Smith)
- When Rabbit Howls (the Troops for Truddi Chase)
- Superman: Birthright (Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu)
- Half-Human (Bruce Coville, editor)
- The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
- The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
- The Dark Horse (Marcus Sedgwick)
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Jeff Lindsay)
- Underpass
- Bone Vol. 7: Ghost Circles (Jeff Smith)
- Bone Vol. 8: Treasure Hunters (Jeff Smith)
- Bone Vol. 9: Crown of Horns (Jeff Smith)
- Elmer (Gerry Alanguilan)
- Skellig (David Almond)
- The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer) - intriguing, reminiscent of Ender Wiggin, well-rounded
- Where Bold Stars Go to Die (Gerry Alanguilan, Arlanzandro C. Esmeña) - (jack off 24/7), sad (only way women can live is if they're sexualized/sex objects); pinup section includes: Francisco V. Coching, Carlo Vergara, Leinil Francis Yu; available at: http://gerry.alanguilan.com/archives/2101
- Eclipse (Stephenie Meyer)
- Beastly (Alex Finn)
jan 17 2009 ∞
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