It’s Monday! What are you reading? Is a meme sponsored by Sheila at Book Journey.  Kellee at Unleashing Readers and Jen at Teach Mentor Texts gave the meme a kidlit twist.  It’s a great way to reflect on what you’ve read and reviewed the last week and plan what you want to read next.  Join up with us and discover what good books other people  are reading.

It’s been a busy week with work (I do love working from home, though!), but I read lots of good books. Rainy weather probably helped. It finally dried out enough to work in the garden this weekend and we’re starting to enjoy some of the first veggies–broccoli, zucchini and cherry tomatoes. I also had the opportunity to read with the just-finished-kindergarten girl that my daughter is babysitting this summer. I love that she loves stories and being read to!

Blog posts this week:

• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
• Revealed by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• UnDivided by Neal Shusterman

I finished…

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Revealed by Margaret Peterson Haddix – This conclusion to The Missing series is filled with excitement, danger and surprises. We finally find out Jonah’s identity fro the past (I was right and surprised!) and learn even more secrets about time travel. Somehow, Haddix weaves in even more surprises–unaging parents and time agents, a suspicious historical figure and separating/uniting time streams that resolve in the most unexpected manner.

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UnDivided by Neal Shusterman – With a conclusion to the Unwind Dystology that is as surprising as it is satisfying, Shsuterman delivers another world that is both dark and disturbingly familiar. Connor, Risa, Lev, Starkey, Hayden and Cam continue to fight Proactive Citizenry, but powerful forces are aligning against them and threaten to tear them apart–literally with unwinding.

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Landline by Rainbow Rowell – Would you change the past if you could? That’s the question Georgie McCool faces as her husband takes their two children home to his family for Christmas and she chooses to stay in Los Angelos to work in scripts for her big break. She says Neil is not leaving her, but is he? When the old phone in her childhood room connects to Neil fifteen years ago (and the only other Christmas they spent apart), Georgie must face the truth about herself. It tooke me awhile to get into this one, but I’m glad I stuck with it. The more I got to know Georgie, Neil and Seth (Georgie’s best friend and writing partner), the more I rooted for them.

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My Dog Never Says Please by Suzanne Williams, illustrated by Tedd Arnold – What fun! Maybe I want to be a dog for a day, too. Ginny Mae is tired of everyone telling her what to do–say please, eat with your mouth closed, clean your room. She looks enviously at her dog, who doesn’t have to do any of it, and decides to move out to the dog house. Who hasn’t felt like that on occasion? At least the door is always open to welcome her back inside the house.

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Biscuit in the Garden by Alyssa Capucilli, illustrated by Pat Schories – Biscuit has more fun in the garden than I did. I spent  my garden time wielding a hoe. Biscuit chases birds and spills birdseed and smells flowers. Who wouldn’t enjoy a garden like that? This was fun to share with the girl next door. She enjoys BIscuit’s adventures and can help me read it, too

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Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems – I love, love, love this books. Read it again! The first thing my neighbor pointed out was the pictures–they look real. I loved the contrast of the bright cartoon figures as they moved across the different black and white photographs on their journey from home to the laundry mat. We had as much fun pointing things out in the pictures as we did reading the whimsical story of a toddler whose Knuffle Bunny takes an unexpected spin.

I’m currently reading…

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What Have You Lost edited by Naomi Shihab Nye – All the poems this week have explored the loss of words and stories. I can’t imagine a world without either.

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Cruel Beauty by  Rosamund Hodge, narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden – I am almost done with the audio book. The ending is going in a direction I didn’t expect. I can’t wait to see how Hodge pulls it all together. I will definitely be looking forward to her other books set in this world.

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The False Prince by Jennifer Neilson – I’m still enjoying reading this one to my daughter. I still enjoy Sage, and I enjoy seeing how cleverly the beginning unfolds now that I am reading after knowing how it ends. I’m even more impressed with Sage’s brilliance at playing this dangerous game (and with Neilson’s genius for writing it).

Coming up…

There’s another trip the library for more summer reading fun. I’m not sure what I will find, but I’m sure I will like it. There are also two more books to download from SYNC YA. I’m not sure which one I want to listen to once I finish Cruel Beauty. There are so many good choices. Does anyone have a recommendation for one of the audiobooks to listen to next?

What have you been reading this week?

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