It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet and share what you have been and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit, comment, and add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at The Book Date.
Jen Vincent, Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee of Unleashing Readers decided to give It’s Monday! a kid-lit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle-grade novels, young adult novels, or anything in those genres – join them.
Personal
- Miss R was sick all last week. She missed two days of school (which never happens).
- We also got her diagnosis from her evaluation. She has undisclosed ADHD and an undisclosed anxiety disorder.
- Mr. Z got into the robotic club!! He was super excited (well for him, super excited).
- BK was sick with the same bug that Miss R had.
- And, I got it too (bleh)
- Also, I don’t know what happened to last week’s post. I wrote it out last Sunday and scheduled it but it never posted.
Blog/Reading/Gaming
- I finally got through The Singing Shore I: Sea and Shore. I just couldn’t get into reading that book, which saddened me because I have enjoyed every other book in the series.
- Once I finished that book, I was able to cruise through 6 books this week. It helped that a lot of these books were under 200 pages.
- In Planet Zoo, I added 3 habitats (European Lynx, European Badger, and European Fallow Deer).
What I am Reading Now
Finley Reeves is the queen of bad mistakes. Fresh off a bad divorce, she decides to rebuild her life from the ground up – starting with a fixer-upper that’s got more leaks than the Titanic. Deciding to tackle this project alone might be her biggest mistake of all…. That is, until Noah Thompson shows up at her front door like a knight in a shining tool belt and makes her an offer she’d be crazy to refuse.
Noah’s sexy, rugged, and good with his hands, but Finley swears she doesn’t need his help – in the basement, or in the bedroom. Can this unlikely couple build a future together? Or will this be one fixer-upper that is better off left alone?
What I plan to read this week
Ten thousand years ago, a mysterious race that we only know as the Overseers took primitive humans and scattered them on dozens of worlds across the galaxy. Now, some of those people have found their way back to Earth. A young Justice Keeper named Anna Lenai has tracked a criminal through unexplored regions of space in the hopes of recovering a symbiont that grants its host the ability to bend space and time. Her search leads her to Earth, where she befriends a young man named Jack Hunter. Together, they will face enemies with advanced technology as they struggle to recover the symbiont before its power falls into the wrong hands.
What would you do if you found your late grandmother’s book of shadows – a witch’s spell book and journal – and learned that you’re a natural born witch? You’d try one of the spells, of course! And that’s exactly what 16-year-old Emma McGlinchey does. To her amazement, the candle lighting spell she picks actually works.
Naturally, Emma has to recruit best friends Lia and Shar into starting a coven.
Soon the girls cast a spell to make everyone like them at the religious high school they’re being forced to attend for the first time. Unfortunately, it fails to make an impression on a group of zealots who set about bullying Lia and Shar for being an openly lesbian couple.
Meanwhile, a love spell they cast for Emma gets the boy of her dreams to ask her out, but the school guidance counselor comes onto her, too. The girls attempt to deal with these problems using other spells, but will they be able to set things right before something catastrophic ensues?
Read Emma’s own Book of Shadows and find out in this suspenseful young adult, urban fantasy today!
Escape Into Reading 