Preparing for August, or "What's there to read?"

The Columbia Publishing Course magazine workshop (which will get its own post at a later date) is over, so with one week left to the course I'm starting to plan my August reading list. This is a list that may get longer or shorter depending on how soon I am able to find a job in my new field. In the meantime, here's how it's stacking up.

• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. I saw the movie and liked it, but I'm sure I'll like the book more.
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Ruined: A Ghost Story by Paula Morris
• Swoon by Nina Malkin
• Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

These are just what's at the top of my very tall pile. My lack of local jobs is your blog reviews gain! I'm also going to catch up on seasons 3 and 4 of 30 Rock and start watching Prison Break like I always meant to.

Once I renew my library card I'm planning Chris Krovatin Day at Librarilly Blonde. But it's really more My Giant Authorcrush On Chris Krovatin, Who Doesn't Know I Exist, Day. His books are Heavy Metal and You and Venomous, if you'd like to get a head start on the reading.

BBYA? Not in the frame of mind to talk about it right now because instead of going to ALA I was doing the magazine workshop, but I get the vague impression that my opinion (basically, keep BBYA as is and think very carefully about the economics of reading and publishing before establishing that reader's choice award) is one of the less popular ones around.