Divergent

Book #218 (Unique books)
Book #31 in 2013

 Divergent

by Veronica Roth

 "In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, Tris also learns that her secret might help her save the ones she loves . . . or it might destroy her."

August 27th to 30th -  4 days - 487 pages

Notes:

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I had about half left and I just read intently for almost 5 hours straight and then I finished and then I yelled.

It was the kind of intense reading concentration that fills me with adrenaline and feelings and then wears me out and then I was shaking. I love it I haven't had a book that made me do that in forever and it wasn't even the best book ever but I LOVE IT SO MUCH OKAY SMNDFVUI i'm still internally yelling

I NEED THE NEXT ONE BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT AHHHDVUISFDBV

Every You, Every Me

Book #217 (Unique books)
Book #30! in 2013

Every You, Every Me

by David Levithan

"You know one me.

Just like I know one you.

But you can't know every me.

And I can't know every you."

August 21st to 27th - 7 days - 245 pages

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (Vol. 6)

Book #216 (Unique books)
Book #29 in 2013

 Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

by Bryan Lee O'Malley

 "'Scott Pilgrim is the best book ever.

It is the chronicle of our time. 

With Kung Fu, so, yeah: perfect.'

-Joss Whedon"

August 8th - a few hours - 245 pages

Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (Vol. 5)

Book #215 (Unique books)
Book #28 in 2013

 Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe

by Bryan Lee O'Malley

 "Scott Pilgrim just turned 24, and things couldn't possibly be better This means things are about to get infinitely worse Suddenly, TWO of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends are in town, and they're playing dirty. His band is in turmoil, and his own exes aren't making things any easier. And what's up with Ramona, anyway? She's been acting kinda weird ever since they moved in together Scott's precious little life is coming back around to bite him in the butt, and it may not be pretty."

July 29th - a few hours - 179 pages

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (Vol. 4)

Book #214 (Unique books)
Book #27 in 2013

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

by Bryan Lee O'Malley

"That's right, folks! Put down the video game controller! Skip that rehearsal for your band! Make whatever sacrifices you must to those comic gods you hold so dear! Just make sure you're ready because Bryan Lee O'Malley and Scott Pilgrim are back! Well, a couple months have passed since the last time we caught up with our intrepid hero, but what can change in a few short months? Well, not much has... Scott's still living with his roommate Wallace Wells. He's still playing in a mediocre rock band named Sex Bob-omb. And most importantly, he's still dating the lovely Ramona Flowers while working his way through the gaggle of superpowered, superstylish, superevil ex-boyfriends determined to take him down. But something is different. Don't look now, but Scott Pilgrim may actually be getting it together. And it's a good thing, too, because Scott is about to confront Ramona's most intimidating ex yet!"

July 18th - a few hours - 205 pages

Looking For Alaska (re-read)

Book #26 in 2013

 Looking For Alaska

by John Green

 "Miles halter is fascinated by famous last words--and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps."

July 14th to 17th - 4 days - 221 pages

Notes:

re-read because I was having trouble dealing with the world

Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness (Vol. 3)

Book #213 (Unique books)
Book #25 in 2013

Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness

by Bryan Lee O'Malley

 "Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend, Todd Ingram, is currently dating the former love of Scott Pilgrim's life! Envy Adams broke Scott's heart a year and a half ago. Now she and her evil art-rock band are back, and they're getting Scott's band to open a show two days from now! That's just enough time for Scott to fight Todd, keep Ramona happy, fend off demented ex-girlfriends, and practice that new setlist. Right Don't miss the latest chapter in the graphic novel saga The Globe and Mail calls 'Canada's answer to Tank Girl!'"

July 12th - a few hours -  192 pages

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Vol. 2)

Book #212 (Unique books)
Book #24 in 2013

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

by Bryan Lee O'Malley

"Does Scott and Ramona's burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn't Scott still supposedly dating Knives Chau? Who is Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend, and why is he in Toronto? Who are The Clash At Demonhead, and what kind of bizarre art-punky music do they play? Who's their hot girl keyboardist, and what is Scott's relation to her? Why are they Knives Chau's new favourite band? Fights! Drama! Secrets revealed! The answers to all these questions and more!"

July 9th to 10th - like 1 1/2 days - 200 pages 

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Vol. 1)

Book #211 (Unique books)
Book #23 in 2013

 Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

by Bryan Lee O'Malley

 "Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's 'between jobs,' and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. Will Scott's awesome life get turned upside-down?"

July 5th to 7th - 3 days - 168 pages

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Book #210 (Unique books)
Book #22 in 2013

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

by Neil Gaiman

"Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what."

July 1st to 2nd - 2 days - 181 pages

Notes:

Neil Gaiman is wonderful, and I enjoyed this book. I got it just in time to go see him in Santa Rosa on his signing tour on Saturday.

 My favorite part is that the picture of him as a child on a drainpipe is on the back cover of the book.