What have I been reading...

Hey there, it's been a while but that doesn't mean I haven't been reading. I think after I last posted, I read a handful of Neal Shusterman's for my MacAuthor Visit...which I thought was a success! My fav' was EVERLOST. It would make a fantastic movie! I love how Neal has "the gift of "TWISTING""! I then switched gears to non-fiction for my next MacAuthor, Sally M. Walker. She was "right there" for the students and totally had them captivated in her super cool research! I read Twilight when I was admitted to Good Shepard for a blood transfusion (go figure!. I also read a Book of a Thousand Days and was very very satisfied. And finally read Rules! during the Jewish holidays (no connection)so I could get my friend Kathleen off my back. I found an interesting title called Owning It! and fall for many of the short stories written by many of my favorite authors about teenage disabilities. There was also a good one called The Hand You Are Dealt about a teenage boy who plays poker. A quick fictional "e-mail style" journal by the gal that wrote When I was Solider: a memoior has a very current to the moment book A Bottle in the Gaza Sea. During Thanksgiving, I listened to Water for Elephants and wished it never ended. That brings me to Christmas Break 2008 & since I started it with a "Snow Day a.k.a. NO SCHOOL!!, I shoveled the drive-way & headed over to the Rolling Meadows Public Library. I was very tempted to read "new stuff" but I convinced myself to read books that I knew I had in my school library collection so, I read: Overboard which was quick good historical fiction. I couldn't put down Silent to the Bone or another historical fiction the Wednesday Wars. Notes from the Midnight Driver which was good but, I also read a quickie called Freak and thought it was very, very true-to-life for a seventh grade girl. I am currently reading, A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer ( House of the Scorpion) and even though I never thought I would pick her up again, I am intrigued by the story, however, I can list a handful of other "Cinderella" that the storyline reminds me of, so I promise to post again soon and let you know how it turns-out! ... Have a Super 2009! x x o, macbeth