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What are you reading?  What book did you just finish?

submitted by Gollum, Mooseflower
(December 26, 2012 - 8:24 pm)

Currently reading: All Quiet On The Western Front (it's extremely boring)
Just Finished: Just Listen by Sarah Dessen (it's a very good book. Read it)

submitted by Maggie, age 12, Charlotte
(July 22, 2013 - 6:11 pm)

Yesterday I read a book called The Hundred Dresses (not the Eleanor Estes one).  It's a list of the 100 most iconic dresses and a description and story of them with an accompanying picture.  I really liked it, and would recommend it to anyone who's interested in fashion, or who likes nonfiction that's about unexpected topics.

submitted by Gollum
(July 25, 2013 - 4:21 pm)

I finished TFioS and started The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2012 by Bob Sehlinger and Len Testa and The Dead and The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer.  I didn't like the other book in the series of the The Dead and The Gone, and I kinda like this one and kinda don't.  It's a complicated relationship.

submitted by Melody, age 15, Disney
(July 26, 2013 - 7:51 pm)

How was the analyzing/note taking?

Also, I have that relationship, too, with so many books, you have no idea.

submitted by Gollum
(July 27, 2013 - 7:40 pm)

I'm reading Ender's Game and the Song of Ice and Fire series (Game of Thrones). 

Hodor! 

submitted by the doctor
(July 28, 2013 - 4:43 am)

@Maggie

That's one of my favorite Sarah Dessen books.  I just found a signed copy of her newest book at the local Target and, since we couldn't find the Little Mermaid BluRay my little brother wanted to give me (it's apparently not out yet), my mom let me get it as 'a birthday present' from my brother.

 

@Gollum

I kind of just took notes on what happened.  It wasn't that bad because I didn't have to analyze, just write down what happened.  I think all I still need to do is write down themes, which is the analyzing part.  I can do that using the internet, though, so that won't be that bad.

submitted by Melody, age 15, Disney
(July 28, 2013 - 10:50 am)

That doesn't sound that bad.  The annoying part is when you have a teacher looking over your shoulder.

I finished City of Ashes and re-reading The Neddiad, and I'm halfway through Save The Pearls Part One: Revealing Eden.

submitted by Gollum
(July 29, 2013 - 4:26 pm)

I finished The Dead and the Gone.  I'm still reading the Disney guidebook, but now I'm starting to read The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall.  

 

 

submitted by Melody, age 15, Disney
(July 28, 2013 - 5:56 pm)

I just finished the Body Finder by Kimberly Derting which was excellent. It was like a toned down, more YA version of I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga.

 The Iron King by Julie Kagawa just arrived in the library so I'll be starting on that soon!

And I'm baaaacckkkk :D 

submitted by Olive, age 14, Toronto, ON
(July 29, 2013 - 3:48 pm)

I just finished the Disney guidebook.  I stayed up super late to do it and now it's like half an hour later and it's pretty much morning now, so I'm posting on here to try to get rid of some of this energy I acquired while reading the guidebook. 

submitted by Melody, age 15, Disney
(July 30, 2013 - 12:01 am)

I finished Revealing Eden today, which was interesting.  I haven't read a dystopia in a while, so it was a nice change.

While I was at the library I forgot to bring a book I was reading with me, so I started ttfn, and am about halfway through it.

I'm going on the bus to the city tomorrow back and forth, so I'm estimating about six hours of reading.  Yay...

submitted by Gollum
(July 30, 2013 - 7:05 pm)

Just Finished: Shada by Douglas Adams and Gareth Roberts (it's a Doctor Who book so...), but it's hilarious; trust me.

Currently reading: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

submitted by Maggie, age 12, Charlotte
(July 31, 2013 - 3:41 pm)

On a hugely delayed bus trip, I finished ttfn, read all of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and the first half of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, which is what Looking for Alaska would be like if it were told from the point of view of Alaska and she was dating a Weekday Warrior.

submitted by Gollum
(July 31, 2013 - 7:27 pm)

I finished The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, which was super good, and I am probably going to start Leviathan today.

Spamster in his spamster cage says xoxk.  Hugs and Kisses?  Thanks, spamster, but you're a digital rodent.

submitted by Gollum
(August 2, 2013 - 8:17 am)

You know what book reads like a female John Green novel?  The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher.  I think you'd like it.

submitted by Melody, age 15, Disney
(August 2, 2013 - 6:26 pm)