Tomorrow school re-opens and while I am looking forward to be back in the library, seeing students and colleagues, I am sad that reading will again have to take second (or third, fourth...?) place. After a long working day, getting dinner ready, spending some time with my family, reading is usually pushed and limited to the last moments of a long day. However, having participated in
Donalyn Miller's Book-a-Day challenge during the break, helped me to enjoy some wonderful reading time. While I haven't been as successful as she and other Twitter friends, I am excited to look back on 18 titles - even more that there was hardly any disappointment in the selection of the books I had picked. Inspired by the experience as well as reading through Donalyn's last blog post, I am considering to join
The Centurions of 2011 - a group on Facebook, aiming at reading 111 books during the year 2011, to have a new reading challenge to work on and enjoy. Maybe you feel like joining too?
Here the list of books I read during the December break - in the order of reading (find above on my Shelfari shelf my reviews):
Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur
The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
Born to Fly by Michael Ferrari
Secrets of a Lab Rat: No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay) by Trudi Trueit
Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Sunny Side Up by Marion Roberts
Chang and the Bamboo Flute by Elizabeth Starr Hill
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel by Nikki Grimes
Shadow by Michael Morpurgo
Swindle by Gordan Korman
The Seer of Shadows by Avi
Any Which Wall by Laurel Snyder
Northward to the Moon by Polly Horvath
Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus by Kristen Tracy
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer
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