The best laid plans mean that I would have written this post 24 hours ago and had it ready to go first thing Monday morning, but alas, no such luck. Here I am at the end of the day, having a beer and really wanting to get this post up and published.
Jen over at Teach Mentor Texts hosts a kidlit version of the meme that Sheila of Book Journey hosts, which is the It’s Monday, What Are You Reading.
So, here are my few morsels of joy for the past week.
I finished a novel, huzzah. It shouldn’t feel like such an accomplishment in the summer when I’m not actually working, and don’t really have many scheduled things to distract me and yet, I find it to be my least productive time of the year. Sigh.
Circle of Stones by Catherine Fisher. This one I read on the recommendation of a coworker, she really loved it and I thought I’d give it a whirl. I did like this fantasy/historical/mythical/contemporary fiction. It was three stories, three time periods, all swirling around the same themes and location. Took me a while to get into the story, but that lag time wasn’t long. This one will be going our section for 7th/8th graders. Some of them will love it.
I also sat down and read a bunch of picture books, most of them people have been talking about for so long, but they only just arrived in our library because of out of stock issues from our jobber, so I’m finally able to get a good look at them. I won’t discuss them here, you all have probably already read and reviewed them. Suffice it to say, I loved them all.
And finally, because I mentioned it above, have a pretty picture of my beer, with SLJ in the background fluttering in the summer breeze.
Have a great week!
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