It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? –From Picture Books to YA is a weekly meme hosted by Jen at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee at Unleashing Readers. This is a chance for bloggers to recap their week of reading and share their plans for the next reading adventures they will take. Visit the host blogs for a list of great blogs participating in this meme and a whole bunch of titles to add to your to-read lists.
This update is actually for the last two weeks.
Books I Finished This Week:
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill by Megan Shepherd takes place in an asylum for kids during World War II. The kids at the home are all infected with Tuberculosis. The main character sees horses in the mirrors but no one else sees them and they do not believe her. Then, one day, one of the winged horses from the mirror world shows up in the gardens that she is exploring. This is an amazing book. I highly recommend that you find it for your classroom library for middle grades. I was able to read an advanced copy from NetGalley. This book will be available in October.
I am absolutely an Austen fan. I love, love, love all of Jane Austen’s books. So, when I heard that Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld was a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, I knew I had to read it. I actually listened to the audiobook and absolutely loved this story! It was fun to hear how the author interpreted the events and gave a modern spin to the scandalous behavior of Lizzie’s sisters. I highly recommend this book to any fans of Jane Austen as well as any readers who like a good love story.
What do you need? This is the provocative question that a new social media site is asking teenagers in this thriller novel. The story follows the quick downward spiral into danger that happens as teenagers join the site and get what they desire by doing tasks. The tasks that are asked of them get progressively more dangerous and turn out to be deadly to some. Need by Joelle Charbonneau is a really good psychological thriller. I highly recommend this one for high school and up.
Books I am currently reading:
I am reading Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin, Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I also started reading A Mindset for Learning and DIY Literacy. I am listening to Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle (thanks to Sync audiobooks).
What’s Next?
No idea what will come next. I will go with what I feel like reading.
What are you reading this week? I would love to hear from you in the comments!
Need sounds fascinating and dark. Reminds me of that psychology test where people were asked to administer progressively more painful shocks to another person (who was in on it, but the other person didn’t know). Scary how quickly people can escalate their actions …
Social media and the major role it plays in the lives of young people today is just fascinating – I’m technically a “millennial”, but I’m definitely on the older end of the scale, and so much of the social media generation is just a mystery to me.
Lots of books that are new to me on your list!
I really would like to read Joelle’s books. I have all of them!