Chocolate and Books
 
Woohoo!! Today is Friday 19th, and we can cross one week off the calendar - we made it! We survived the first week of school!

That is an accomplishment in itself, considering that a lot of you are new to the school and had to get used to a whole new environment, new teachers, new peers, etc... Even the returning students had to get used to a new schedule (and survive the scheduling change process!).

I have looked at our Top Ten Readers of the Summer, and I will share the results with you on Monday, when I will also give away the prizes.

Have a great weekend!
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Vote for your favorite titles at the Young Adult Library Services Association - this is the time for YOU to make your voice and your choices heard!! Only teens vote on their favorite books of the past year. 

Vote HERE. 

The nominees this year are:You can also participate in the 2011 Teen Read Week Photo Contest, to receive gift bags from Penguin Books for Young Readers! See all rules in the link above. 
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Final tally: not quite 27 books (check out the last 3 reviews!!). Not bad! I wasn't sure I could read that many books this summer, so I'm quite happy with that number :) 

What is your number? What books, audiobooks, magazines have you read this summer? Post the titles/author in the Comments section!
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And another two! 08/14/2011
 
Finished Friend's Lush and Pelzer's The Lost Boy - check the reviews!

I don't think I will be able to finish Cashore's Fire today; I just started CD #4 and there are 10 total! :D  But I might still be able to squeeze one last book, No Passenger Beyond This Point, which I started yesterday. I'll keep you updated! 

I cannot wait to see you all tomorrow, and hear what you have done this summer and what great books you have 
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Two more! 08/11/2011
 
I finished reading Pelzer's autobiography A Child called "It" as well as listening to the audiobook version of The Running Man, so I posted my reviews.

I'm still working on books #23 and 24 for this summer: David Pelzer's The Lost Boy and the audiobook version of Cashore's Fire, the sequel to Graceling.
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Well, I have at least reached #20 in my personal Summer Reading Challenge. How many books have you read so far? You are lucky because you get one more week to read as much as you like, while I will be back at school on Monday and thus my reading time will drastically decrease. Still, I will continue reading this week and we'll see just how many books I can cram in this coming week, for my final tally of my summer reading :D

Anyways, I have put up my reviews for book #19, Jane Austen: A Life Revealed, and book #20, Ender's Game. 
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I am still so new at using Twitter, but I'm figuring some things out and following more people - usually having to do with books, obviously :)

Today I joined the ranks of the followers of PBS books and saw that they currently are asking people to vote for their 10 favorite titles among a pretty long list (it is a nice change to have such a large choice!) of fantasy and science-fiction novels. So if you like either, or both, of those genres, make your vote count! 

(Sorry, I still cannot embed links, so here it is: 
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138894873/vote-for-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-titles?sc=tw&cc=share  )
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A reminder to all of last year's 6th graders, who have received a Six Flags ticket - you have until August 14th (the day before we'll see each other again!) to use it!

I am using mine today - wish me luck, because I'm still sick, too :(  If you see a crazy lady wearing a scarf (yes, my throat hurts that much) at Six Flags today, come say hi because it's me! :D 

Have a wonderful day!
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Watcha think about the director's choice of actors for Peeta and Gale?

http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/07/27/hunger-games-first-look-peeta-gale-exclusive/
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You get a lot of reading done! :D :D :D 

At least I do. Yes, I am sick right now (feels like bronchitis, but I'm no doctor); so when I rest but don't want to feel my head pounding or try to distract myself from the pain in my lungs, I read. 

I don't think I'm going to get better tomorrow, so this is going to be a reading weekend - stay tuned for more reviews next week! So far, I'm still finishing Tunnels, I started and finished The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, I started but couldn't finish The Clique: Bratfest at Tiffany's, I started Troy High and I picked another one (that my foggy mind can't recall right now) on my bedside table. Have you read any of those? What did you think?

ETA: I finished reading Troy High. I'm taking a breather, so I wrote my reviews. Check them out!
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