Hello! It’s late, and today has been a crazy day, so I’m going to go straight into my weekly reading update, WWW Wednesday. WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On a World of Words, and how it works is each week I answer three questions:
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Hello, and happy Wednesday! Today was the semi-final of OBOB, which is a reading competition that I’m participating in, and I won the battle so tomorrow I will be in the final which is very exciting, but also stressful because I’m the spokesperson and I will have to speak in front of everyone who shows up. (That’s 6th, 7th and 8th graders plus teachers and so yeah, it’s a lot.) Today was also my last day of algebra finals, which I’m glad to be done with!
Anyways… Right now, it’s time for my weekly reading update, WWW Wednesday! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On a World of Words, and how it works is each week I answer three questions:
I am still currently reading Crooked Kindom, although I have made a lot of progress. I am rereading the Novice, by Taran Matharu, and The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani.
I recently reread The Only Road, by Alexandra Diaz, House Arrest, by K. A. Holt, and Hattie Ever After, by Kirby Larson. I listened to Hattie Ever After, and the person who reads it is really good.
If you want to see all the books I’ve read so far this year, check out my Goodreads, where I (mostly) keep up with all the books I read.
Next, I think I’ll read Black Radishes, by Susan Lynn Meyer, reread It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel, by Firoozeh Dumas, and The Teacher’s Funeral, by Richard Peck! I’m keeping my weekly TBR the exact same because I didn’t actually get to any of the books above!
What are you currently reading? What do you plan to read next? Have you read any of the books in this post? Chat with me in the comments below!
Happy Reading!
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words. How it works is I answer 3 questions:
I am currently reading The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak, All the Answers, by Kate Messner, and rereading The Only Road, by Alexandria Diaz.
I recently finished reading A World without Princes , by Soman Chainani. It was just as good as the first book in the series, and I can’t wait to read the third and last book in the trilogy!
Next, I want to reread The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill, and read For Black Girls Like Me, by Mariama J. Lockington!
Have you read any of these books? What’s your WWW Wednesday? Chat with me in the comments below!
Happy Reading!
I have been so busy, and I’ve had to take a small, tiny, almost TWO WEEK BREAK from posting, but I am back!!!!
I didn’t really know what to call this post, so, this will have to work
My bat mitzvah was SATURDAY!!! and I have a lot of family visiting, so this has been the most busy (and amazing and awesome) weekend ever!!! I am extremely happy that it is over, and it was an amazing experience, but now I will have so much more time for blogging, which makes me very happy!!!
I am going to make this a very long post to catch up with every thing I’ve missed writing, and I will start with a review with my most recent favorite series: THE MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB!
This series is about… a mother daughter book club. A book club doesn’t seem like a very interesting basis for an entire series, but it actually ended up being AMAZING!!!
The first book starts when the girls are in 6th grade. The moms start talking after yoga class, and decide to start the club. The book follows four very different girls: Cassidy, who has just moved to Concord after the death of her father is very different from her ex-supermodel mother, who doesn’t want her to play hockey, worried she’ll get hurt, while hockey is the only thing Cassidy wants to do. Jess and Emma are best friends. Emma loves to read and write, and was very close to Megan in elementary school, but now Megan is part of the ‘Fab Four’, a group that is not very nice to Emma or Jess. Jess’s family owns Half Moon farm, but her mother left to star on a soap opera, and isn’t around. Jess loves animals, but is teased about it, getting called Goat Girl.
The mother daughter book club starts as something that none of the girls are very excited about, but they end up having many amazing adventures. In a later book, *spoiler alert* they get to go visit their pen pals in WYOMING!!! They go on so many cool adventures and are so close, its so fun to read!
I was so sad when I finished the 7th book, but I already want to reread all of them!!! I totally suggest this series if you’re fans of The Penderwicks, which is also a super amazing series about four sisters, but I’m going to move on now…
I’m really behind right now, but this prompt seemed really fun, so I thought that even if it was only two books, I should still do it. Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. How it works is each week there’s a topic, and you make lists of books that fit that topic! This week’s topic a halloween freebie, so I decided to go with books that have looked so creepy I didn’t read them.
1 Frozen Charlotte, by Alex Bell
A bunch of my friends read this, but it looked super creepy, and because I don’t like creepy books, I decided not to read it.
2 Doll Bones, by Holly Black
This one looked really good, but again, it just seemed to creepy for me!
I decided not to do last weeks, but this next one looks fun…
So I decided that it is going to be too much work to list all of the books, so here are the covers. This is (I think) most of the books I read, but some might have been from September, and I’m probably leaving a few out…
I am really behind on reviews though, so my goal for November is that I’m going to try to write at least a paragraph on every book I read. I’ll see how that works…
Honestly, I wasn’t very excited about this book. I’m not exactly a fan of ‘fairy tale endings’. I mean come on… the princess is does something really dumb (ex. gives away her voice, takes a poison apple from a stranger) and a prince comes along and is like ‘oh that girl is pretty. I should kiss her. Oh! I saved her life. Let’s get married!’ Fairy tales don’t often stray much off that path. Even when there’s no prince, the girl is usually pretty stupid. (ex. ‘Oh look! It’s a wolf! I should talk to that wolf! I will do all the things my mother warned me not to do over and over! I can’t tell my grandma apart from a wolf!’ and so on…)
The School for Good and Evil surprised me. The book is about two girls, Sophie and Agatha. They are from the village Gavaldon. They know that every year, the nicest and the meanest children are kidnapped and taken away to star in fairy tales. Unlike most kids, they want to go. However, the school turned out to be very different than they’d imagined.
This book has so many amazing plot twists, and I definitely suggest it. The one thing the two girls show is that you don’t need any princes in a happily ever after. This is an OBOB book (my post on OBOB is coming later!) so I’m not reading the rest of the series YET, but I really want to, and I definitely will!
Happy Reading!
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @ Taking On A World of Words. How it works is I answer 3 questions:
I am currently reading Port Chicago 50, by Steve Sheinkin
I just finished reading The Only Road, by Alexandra Diaz
Next, I think I’m going to finish the mother daughter book club series.
The Only Road, by Alexandra Diaz is about a twelve year old boy named Jamie and his cousin Angela, and their journey through Mexico to get to the United States.
The Guatemalan village where they live is controlled by a violent gang called the Alphas. Anyone who opposes them and refuses to join will be hurt or killed. That is what happens to Miguel, Jamies cousin. He is violently murdered because he refuses to join the Alphas. When Miguel is killed, Jamie knows that he is next. He could never join the gang that killed his cousin, but not doing so would mean certain death, so he and his cousin Angela flee the village.
Jamie and Angela are traveling through Mexico to get to the United States, and to go live with Jamie’s much older brother, Tomas, who is working in New Mexico. Their journey is dangerous, and although they have money sewn into their clothes, they face many dangers, and are taken advantage of.
However, they do make friends along the way, and come across people who are very kind and helpful to them.
The Only Road is an amazing book. The plot is really good, and the story is really well written. Based on true events, Alexandra Diaz follows Jamie and Angela’s treacherous, and life changing journey through Mexico all the way, and I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about what the journey to get to the United States from Central America to the United States can be like. Reading this book made me realize how lucky I am to be in the United States, and how privileged I am to have the options that I have.
I hope you consider looking at The Only Road, and happy reading!
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