Sunday Salon - 48 Hour Book Challenge - update 4 -

Finished:
Wings by Jason Lethcoe
Pgs: 63 (glossary and excerpt inc)
35 min to finish from last post

Story of Edward MacLeod who goes to Foundry school, school for misfits who can't survive anywhere else. Edward's there because his mom died and he was sent there. He's 6 1/2 ft tall and has an itch he can't scratch. Turns out he's a specially powerful Guardian. Interesting but a little confusing. Too much jumping around. The glossary in the back should have been in the front because it really helped. Book 2, Flight, sounds promising, will have to remember to pick it up from library.

Book Challenge Time:
Books: 3
Pgs: 832
Time: 14hr 30m

Finished:
Death Run by Jack Higgins
pgs: 62 to end
Time: 50m from last post

Not as good as Sure Fire. Lot more draggy. Jade's character was a real...didn't really care for her this time around. The coincidences piled up in this one and I had a hard time suspending disbelief. I'm sure I'll read the next one, Sharp Shot, but will get it from library instead of buying.

Book Challenge Time:
Books: 4
Pgs: 894
Time: 15hr 20m

This weekend I'm participating in the 48 hr. Book Challenge. I didn't set a goal as this is my first challenge. I only commit to buying a book for Color Online's Summer Book Drive for each book I finish. So far I owe them four books. Feel free to match my donations!

It's been tough for me, this challenge. I can't seem to get "into" any book. I keep stopping and starting or just thumbing through my piles of book or looking at past posts trying to decide what to read next. I have a few blog tours coming up that I could read for but suddenly none of those are pulling at my senses. What do you do when in a slump?

The challenge will finish at 8 pm EST for me, about 6 1/2 more hours. That can be one mid sized book or two short books. Not sure which to go for: something off my summer reads list or something off my book tour list or some random book pulled out of a hat? WWYD?

Anyway, that's my Sunday Salon for today. I need to read and do chores but will prolly just nap. Also have lots of homework to do and grocery shopping...::heavy sigh::...what's wrong with me?

PS: Total time is 16h 15m (reading/reviewing/networking) and 4 books.

48 Hour Book Challenge - update 3

I'm in hr 36 of 48

Finished:
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Flightsend by Linda Newbery

Started:
Death Run by Jack Higgins - 191 of 253
Wings by Jason Lethcoe - 150 of 197
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith - 32 0f 275
Miracle Girls by Drayton and Vanderbilt - 17 of 291

Waiting in the Wings:
Hunger by Michael Grant
Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes by Robin Gunn
Vanishing Sculptor by Donita K. Paul
Wings by Aprilynne Pike
Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle by Nan Marino
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Shaffer
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
My Life as a Rhombus by Varian Johnson

I know I'll finish both Death Run and Wings. Not sure about anything else as I have a ton of laundry, grocery shopping, and general housekeeping that I've been neglecting and really need to get on! Especially the grocery shopping!

PS: Total time is 14hrs (reading/reviewing/networking), 2 bks, 769pgs

Library Loot - May 21, 2009

Wings by Jason Lethcoe

My intern supervisor is going to run a Mock Newbery club and this is a contender. I'm going to try and read all of them with her so that I can initiate this club at school in the Fall!


Great Call of China by Cynthea Liu

Our school just started an exchange program with China and we are trying to find trade books for our students to read. This one looks good! Cece was raised American and has an opportunity to travel to China in an Exchange program. She hopes to learn more about her past.

Library Loot is brought to you courtesy of Striped Armchair. Check out her blog for more reading matl.


Side Note: Since I'm going to work with Kris on the 2010 Mock Newbery, I won't be reading much outside of books received for review and possible contenders for the award. This will change my reading plan. I hope to learn more about reading for a variety of ages since Newbery's cover birth - 14!