It's Monday! What Are You Reading? --From Picture Books to YA is a weekly meme started by Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee at Unleashing Readers. This is a chance for bloggers to recap their week of reading and share their plans for the next reading adventures they will take. Visit the host blogs for a list of great blogs participating in this meme and a whole bunch of titles to add to your to-read lists.
Books I Finished This Week:
Books Abandoned This Week:
I decided to abandon Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. I would still absolutely recommend the book to fans of fantasy. The characters are interesting and the book is very well-written, but I was only 150 pages into the book after three weeks of reading. I am just not that interested in reading about monsters.
Books I am Currently Reading:
I am listening to Please Ignore Vera Dietz and reading Infinity Ring: Divide and Conquer and The Summer I Turned Pretty
What's Next?
It will depend on my mood and the amount of time I have this week.
Our favorite Lockhart book is The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. My older daughter asked for a copy of her own, which is fairly rare. Looks like you are getting a lot read, and since it's almost summer, what you read should definitely depend on your mood. (Well, within reason, or I'd read nothing but Lenora Mattingly Weber books!)
ReplyDeleteI don't know the "Ruby" books, so will check them out, Andrea. If you want decent mysteries about food, check our local author's books, centered around a caterer. I used to read them & enjoyed them, haven't kept up, but I imagine they're still good beach reads! The author is Diane Mott Davidson.
ReplyDeleteThe e. lockhart books about Ruby are good! I also love Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. I need to read more A.S. King. Ask the Passengers made the rounds in my Adolescent Lit class before I could read it, and then my students were horrified that I hadn't read it yet because it's apparently so amazing!
ReplyDeleteVera Dietz has been on my TBR since it came out! I love A.S. King's writing--I just need to get around to Vera.
ReplyDeleteI read the first Ruby book and really enjoyed it, but don't remember much of it. Some day I will have to reread and then read the others!
Happy reading this week! :)
Vera Dietz is one of my favorites. I hope you are enjoying it! The Summer I Turned Pretty was a favorite in my classroom, too. My students made #teamconrad and #teamjeremiah shirts. :) Thank you for sharing these great books!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information on these titles. I recently rediscovered e lockhart and am going to go and read the rest of the Ruby Oliver series
ReplyDeleteHello there Andrea, I have a feeling I own that China Mieville novel, but I can't be absolutely sure - which reminds me that I really need to do my book inventory this summer. The Anthony Bourdain novel sounds perfect for our current Makan theme. :)
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