Dandy Books

Dandy Books is a meme I began about books that are on my TBR list. They are mostly older books not necessarily from the current year. Hopefully I can make your list bigger!

To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Sirena Cherson Siegel and Mark Siegel (illustrator)

Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six — and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance class in Boston, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet.

To Dance tells and shows the fullness of her dreams and her rhapsodic life they led to. Part family history, part backstage drama, here is an original, firsthand book about a young dancer's beginnings — and beyond.

RD: 2006

Interest: Looks and sound cute.

The Alison Rules by Catherine Clark

What is It About Alison?

For one thing, she has rules:

When stealing a rowboat, ALWAYS check that the oars are the same length, so you don't go in circles.

In reference to your best friend's crush, KEEP your feelings to yourself.

NEVER use your locker if that's where you were standing when told the very worst news of all.

But rules –– like hearts –– are meant to be broken.

RD: 2005

Interest: Read good things about it and it seems funny/cute.

Love & Sk8 by Nancy Krulik

Angie can't wait to bounce this mill town she's been living in. At least she's got her friends, the guys who live to ride and grind. And her job painting custom boards at Sk8 4Ever.

Then one day Carter walks into the shop. He's all Abercrombie, and she's black hoodies. But it's hot in therre.

Carter offers to help Angie with her dream: to take her art to NYC. She really believes in Carter, but then she learns the truth about his family -- something that turns Love & Sk8 into Love vs. Sk8.


RD: 2004

Interest: Sounds cute.


Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton TrumboAn immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumboa (TM)s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era.

RD: 1939
Interest: Yes, totally different from all those other choices for the week. Sounds REALLY good.

Have you read any of these books? What did you think? Interested?