So, I started reading on June 19th and stopped logging at August 21st. This is the deadline I set for everyone. In this time I read 25 books...not bad! I will say there were a few times when I wasn't reading as heavily as I normally do...and I did do some re-reading during this time! Anyway, I loved tracking...I am always curious how much I read. I tried to read a little of everything...and I think I managed to hit most genres and age groups! Now I can get back to reading for fun...at least until Sept 22..I return to school and will not be able to read anything but audio until I go on break in December. All of my reading will need to be school related!
Happy Reading!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Pretty Little Liars Book 1
By Sara Shepard...I had heard good things about the new TV series...and then girls starting asking for the books. I haven't read beyond book one of the A-List...I haven't read any of the Clique...but adore the Gossip Girls series (a guilty pleasure). So, I was anxious to see how this series would be. I was amazed at how young the girls start out...and then the story flashes forward to their teenage years...it is all about friends, enemies, popularity, trying to figure out who you are, etc. I enjoyed the book...and there is a bit of a mystery involved...I do plan to read more of the series but I have to say I loved Gossip Girls more! Who knows...maybe book 2 will hook me!
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
By Linda Urban...what a fun listen. Yes, I listened to this one. Just three CDs long...it didn't take long for me to get swept up in the story of a girl who dreams of playing Carnegie Hall. Instead her father buys her an organ...and she begins a new dream...her mother works, her father has issues with being in public...so he does things from home. Then there is Wheeler...and her old friend who has kind of left her behind. It was a cute and fun story! I highly recommend!
Someone Like You
By Sarah Dessen...my third book by this author. So far my favorite is Dreamland...but this one was all about friendship and being there for your friend during a difficult time in her life. It was good...but not my absolute favorite...it was funny, bittersweet, and in parts really hard to read! But...if you want to relive the test of friendship and what that means to a teen...this is the book for you!
All the Pretty Dead Girls
By John Manning...creepy. I went through a phase when I was in my teens reading John Saul, Stephen King, and Dean R Koontz. I loved being terrorized by the monsters in a very love/hate thing...and while some nights I couldn't sleep...I still opened the book and kept reading. It has been awhile since I have been creeped out by a book. I loved Koontz's take on Frankenstein...but forgot about those old horror novels of my youth. This one brought me back. If you want to be kept up at night, or sleep with the lights on...if you want to know that evil is in the world. This book will take you there!
Ramona the Brave
By Beverly Cleary...yet another fond return to books of my childhood! What a fun story...I will continue to make my way through the Ramona series...it is something light and definitely fun. I forgot how fun it was!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Neverwhere
By Neil Gaiman...I have read other books by Neil Gaiman...some with great anticipation. This was not one of them. Recommended by a teen...and my husband who LOVES this author, I read it to kill time on an airplane until the 10,000 feet mark so I could read by Kindle. It turns out that while I wasn't totally hooked on the book I could not put it down. I simply had to know what was happening next. Richard has recently moved to London. Richard is a normal guy, recently engaged and lives a very normal life. One evening he gets into a disagreement with his fiancee and sees a girl who is dressed bizarrely and helps her. Because of this help he is no longer visible to those who knew him...and he ends up in the world under London. Much adventure begins. I liked the book, but admit it isn't for everyone!
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