Wow, is July over already? Just assume that I did something incredibly productive in all the time I wasn’t reading.

One hundred more poems from the Japanese, compiled and translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Quite an interesting collection, with bonus dirty poems. Three stars for lyrical and steamy both.

I Am The Messenger, Zuzak (Y)
Wow, this book was great! Recommended for adults and high school type persons. I liked the structure and the writing style and the characters. Five stars for giving me chills and misting me up.

2gether 4ever: Notes of a Junior High School Heartthrob, Larson (Y)
The author kept a lot (all?) of the notes passed to and fro in Junior High and publishes them in a slim volume of photographic reproductions. This did not appeal to me. One star for premise and packaging, but not much else.

Odd jobs: portraits of unusual occupations, Schiff (Y)
I love this sort of book– part noveltly, part actually educational. Pictures and short paragraphs about the jobs and the people that do them, from beer taster to tampon tester. Three stars for vocational education.

Siberia: a Novel, Halam (Y)
Great description, character motivation, and pacing are far-too-unusual additions to the great premise (the last hope of the genes of long-gone mammals in a frozen future). Four stars for a great science adventure.