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: Happy Valentine’s Day! Our Favorite LBGTQ Love Stories
Wednesday: Famous Fails! by Crispin Boyer
Thursday: Mr. Fuzzbuster Knows He’s the Favorite by Stacy McAnulty
Friday: Time Museum by Matthew Loux
Last Week’s Journeys
Kellee
Hi, everyone! Today is Trent’s 3rd birthday! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?! My mom and brother are in town, and we’re going to Disney to celebrate his birthday. I’ll catch up with you next week with what I read over the two weeks 🙂 Have a great week!
Ricki
This week, I enjoyed Decelerate Blue by Adam Rapp. It is a dystopian graphic novel. In the futuristic world, everything is faster. People take medications to speed up their heart rate, the government requires every sentence to end with “Go,” and the world simply moves faster and more efficiently. I enjoyed this book and had a lot of fun reading it.
Henry and I loved reading The Tree: A Fable by Neal Layton. The story is simple, but the message packs a powerful punch. He’s brought up the story to me on several occasions, so it seems that it has really stuck with him. I love the questions he asks me when we read it.
This Week’s Expeditions
Ricki
It seems that lately, I am really good at starting a lot of books and not finishing them. I have many half-finished (and great!) books laying around my house. I think I am distracted with my dissertation writing. I am loving All We Have Left by Wendy Mills. We are using it for the Muslim-Islamic research study that we are about to start in a school.
Upcoming Week’s Posts
Tuesday: Ten of Trent’s Favorite Books as of His Third Birthday
Wednesday: The March Against Fear by Ann Bausum
Thursday: Guest Review: Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
Friday: The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming by J. Coats Anderson
So, what are you reading?
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Happy Birthday, Trent. I loved seeing the pictures! Ricki, Decelerate Blue looks good & can’t wait to read The Tree. Have a great week to you both!
Happy reading week, Linda!
Trent has already changed so much since August! Crazy how that happens….
I see a few books that are in my reading stacks at home: The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming, All We Have Left….
Three years old already, Kellee?? No, I can’t believe it! Seems like just last year you had a new baby. I warned you that it flies by! Hope you enjoy his birthday & your visit to Disney – 3 is such a great age!
Ricki, the world of Decelerate Blue sounds awful! I actually take medication to slow down my heartrate – ha ha. I wouldn’t want to live there but it sounds like a fascinating fictional world…and maybe some interesting parallels to our world, huh?
Enjoy your books – and your boys – this week!
Sue
Book By Book
It was a really interesting book to read! It made me think! I hope you have a great week!
I’ll have to check into Decelerate Blue. I saw this on a blog somewhere a while back but not sure whose it was. It sounds interesting. I agree with Sue though, the world sounds pretty awful.
You guys are cracking me up. 🙂
I’m curious about The Tree. I browsed through it the other day and it seems like a quick read and I’m all about that!
Happy birthday to Trent. Three is such a wonderful age!
I’ve added All We Have Left to my list, but I’m not sure I have it in me to read another 9/11 book. I agree with all the comments before me. Decelerate Blue sounds like a terrible place to be!