BOOKS - April

And (once again) it's time for a book post. It's actually PAST time for a book post (as it's already the 19th), but.... oh well. 

For more book greatness - here's  February and March, January, November / December, September / October and August (where you'll find links to all the other past book posts).

Starting off with the books that I hope to eventually read and someday add to my collection...

The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design by Drusilla Cole.

Snow White and the 77 Dwarfs by Davide Cali and Raphaelle Barbanegre.

Romeo and Juliet Unfolded: Retold in Pictures by Yelena Bryksenkova.

Madame Sonia Delaunay: A Pop-Up Book by Gerard Lo Monaco.

The Art and Making of Hannibal: The Television Series by Jesse McLean.

Florabelle by Sasha Quinton, illustrated by Brigette Barrager, with photographs by Michel Tcherevkoff.

Danny by Gwendal Le Bec and Yann Le Bec.

The Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude.

The Story of Mademoiselle Oiseau by Andrea De la Barre De Nanteuil and Lovisa Burfitt.

How Many Legs? by Kes Gray and Jim Field.

The Worrier's Guid To Life by Gemma Correll.

Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick.

The Record Store Book: Fifty Legendary and Iconic Places to Discover New and Used Vinyl by Mike Spitz and Rebecca Villaneda.

Big Gay Ice Cream: Saucy Stories & Frozen Treats: Going All the Way with Ice Cream by Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint.

Ladies of Letterpress: A Gallery of Prints with 86 Removable Posters by Kseniya Thomas and Jessica C. White.

The Fishermen by Chigozi Obioma.

We Dig Worms by Kevin McCloskey.

The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough.

The Secret Garden Unfolded: Retold in Pictures by Becca Stadtlander.

Pablo: Art Masters Series by Julie Birmant and Clement Oubrerie.

Pride and Prejudice Unfolded: Retold in Pictures by Becca Stadtlander.

And.... the books that I read and enjoyed over the course of April.

Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst and Lane Smith / Ariol: Happy as a Pig by Emmanuel Guibert and Marc Boutavant

Yes Please by Amy Poehler / The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith / Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Hearts by Thereza Rowe / Edmund Unravels by Andrew Kolb

BOOKS - August

It's book post time.

Want more? Of course you do. Here you go: July, May and June, April, March, February's, January's... and, well, you can browse through everything before that under the books tag - here.

Let's start off with the awesome assortment of books I discovered over the course of the previous month (the ones that I want to add to my bookshelf and read)....

The Slug by Elise Gravel.

Moomin on the Riviera by Tove Jansson.

Uni the Unicorn by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Brigette Barrager.

And Two Boys Booed by Judith Viorst and Sophie Blackall.

Edward Hopper Paints His World  / Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes / Happy Birthday Madame Chapeau

Worn Stories: Sartorial Memoirs as told to Emily Spivack.

The Secret Diary of Tiddles Aged 3 3/4 by Gemma Correll.

Not Very Scary / Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole

Greenglass House by Kate Milford, illustrated by Jaime Zollars.

Fleabrain Loves Franny by Joanne Rocklin.

Very Little Red Riding Hood / Worst in Show / Give and Take

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.

Flashlight by Lizi Boyd.

Just Add Color: Mid-Century Modern Mania with artwork by Jenn Ski.

Just Add Color: Circus with artwork by Sarah Walsh.

Just Add Color: Folk Art with artwork by Lisa Congdon.

more Just Add Color coloring books - Mid-Century Modern Animals / Botanicals / Day of the Dead / Mid-Century Modern Patterns / Geometric Patterns / Carnival

Swedish Wooden Toys by Amy F. Ogata and Susan Weber.

The Secret Place / Lock In / The Swap / Into the Grey

Blackfin Sky by Kat Ellis.

I Want to Be a Ballerina / Baking Day at Grandma's / Littleland: Around the World / Go to Sleep, Little Farm

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms by Katherine Rundell, illustrated by Melissa Castrillon.

Easy Gourmet / Candy Aisle Crafts / Seriously Delish

Kiddie Cocktails by Stuart Sandler, illustrated by Derek Yaniger. 

Flo & Wendell Explore / More and More / Specs for Rex

Blown Away by Rob Biddulph.

Moonhead and the Music Machine / Kill My Mother: A Graphic Novel

Hug Machine by Scott Campbell.

Bad Apple's Perfect Day / The Way to the Zoo / Aw, Nuts!

The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade by Justin Roberts and Christian Robinson.

The Haunted Library / The Haunted Library: The Ghost in the Attic

The World of Mamoko: In the Time of Dragons by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski.

Now on to the books I read over the course of August.

Not a lot this month.

• I loved all the interviews in Poking A Dead Frog 
• I sped through More Than This in one wonderful sitting 
• The Night Gardener is a genuinely spooky children's book 
• And Gone Girl? Well, I love making myself more paranoid than I already am by reading bushels of mystery / murder-y books. Back when Gone Girl first came out my expectations were high (I liked Gillian Flynn's two previous novels) - but I didn't get around to reading it very quickly. And then some people whose opinions I trust read it and weren't very enthusiastic, so I moved it out of my to-read-soon pile. AND THEN (and then and then and then) the movie release date started creeping closer, so I thought "Read it, Mal" and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The end. A very eloquent review, I know. 

Over & out.