It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? From Picture Books to YA!
It’s Monday! What are you Reading? is a meme started by Sheila at Book Journeys and now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. It is a great way to recap what you read and/or reviewed the previous week and to plan out your reading and reviews for the upcoming week. It’s also a great chance to see what others are reading right now…you just might discover the next “must-read” book!
Kellee and Jen, of Teach Mentor Texts, decided to give It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels, anything in the world of kidlit – join us! We love this meme and think you will, too.
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Last Week’s Posts
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Tuesday: Ten Favorite Significant Others in Books
Thursday: You’re All Kinds of Wonderful by Nancy Tillman
Giveaway open until Saturday!!
Last Week’s Journeys
Kellee
- I love Alex Rider books so much! Anthony Horowitz just has a way of writing middle grade/early teen books that are so sophisticated and complicated and intriguing! I couldn’t put the book down–it truly is comparable to a James Bond novel! AND the end of the book is a cliffhanger and at the end there is a surprise, so I tweeted this:
AND ANTHONY HOROWITZ REPLIED TO ME! AHHH! I was so excited! And I cannot wait until summer 2018 🙂
- I also finished listening to Little Monsters by Kara Thomas, and it was a mystery that I just couldn’t solve which is my favorite type! The ending was shocking and overall the story was so crazy and messed up! I tweeted with Kara Thomas about it, too 🙂
Ricki
This week was filled with rereads of old favorites. I am simultaneously reading three new YA books, but while I am close to the end of each of them, I haven’t finished any of them yet. 🙂
I REREAD Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos and Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. My colleges students loved both of them. A few of the students said that Roskos captured mental health so well that it made them cry. And obviously, the response to Between Shades of Gray has been overwhelmingly positive. I saw two students on campus and they said, “This book is SO GOOD.” I am excited to hear the whole class’s thoughts tomorrow.
This Week’s Expeditions
Kellee
- I am almost done with History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera, and it is just as heartbreaking yet love-filled as promised.
- I am going to start listening to Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper today!
Ricki
I am really enjoying M. T. Anderson’s Landscape with Invisible Hand. It’s a bit weird, but it’s a really GOOD weird. I love books that are unique and unlike any others that I’ve read, and Anderson always succeeds in this category.
Upcoming Week’s Posts
Tuesday: Ten Picture Books About Autumn
Wednesday: The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street by Lindsay Currie
Thursday: Nerdy Bird by Aaron Reynolds
Friday: Twinderella by Corey Rosen Schwartz
So, what are you reading?
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I just finished reading The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street last night and it’s pretty spooky! Great ghost story in time for Halloween! I’ll bet you thought the scariest part was the move from Florida to Chicago! 😉
LOL! That’s funny! I would love to live in Chicago though I don’t know if the weather and I would agree 😛
Sounds like a good reading week for you both! Hope this next one is good, too!
I remember reading and enjoying Dr. Bird. Yawp! And I can’t wait to share the news of new Alex Rider books to our customers.
I’m excited for you to be able to share it! I want to yell it from the rooftops 🙂
Yes! I laughed out loud. Yawp!
Kellee, I love everything that Adam Silvera writes. I just downloaded his newest book, They Both Die at the End and plan to start it as soon as I am finished with the one I am listening to now.
Ricki, Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets has been added to my must read list.
Happy reading this week!
Looking forward to what you think about They Both Die. I plan on reading it soon, too 🙂
It’s such a great book, Cheriee!
I don’t know if I could reread Between Shades of Gray. So emotional. Love the tweets you shared Kellee!
I’ve read it a few times, and it always makes me cry. It is so brilliantly done but TOUGH.
I’ve reread it about 5 times, and each time, I love it even more (and cry harder).
I SO understand your excitement, Kellee! I LOVE when an author Tweets me back – so thrilling!
I have had Stella by Starlight on my TBR shelf for ages – must get to it soon!
Your new job sounds so amazing, Ricki! How exciting to introduce college students and future teachers to incredibly powerful books like Between Shades of Gray.
I’ve been hearing about Anderson’s latest – it DOES sound weird, but that’s kind of his thing, right? Looking forward to hearing more!
Sue
Book By Book
I feel like I have the greatest job in the world. It is so much fun!
I’m intrigued by the Terrorism book. I’ll definitely have to check that one out!
Me, too. 🙂
I’ve got a math post going up on Friday too! Twinderella is on it too 🙂
I read the first Alex Rider and really enjoyed it. I haven’t had any fourth graders check that series out in awhile, I’ll have to book talk it soon.
In 2005 I went to England and saw Ark Angel in a bookstore. It didn’t come out in the US until the following year, so my students thought it was super cool to be able to read it. Horowitz keeps getting better and better!
Kellee, I really enjoyed Stella by Starlight. I read the first two Alex Rider books, but have never gone on for more. Maybe I will finally do that.
Ricki, Between Shades of Gray is such an amazing book. It’s one that will stay with me for ages.
I agree. It’s my fifth reading of it (I think), and it just gets better and better.