Why Yes, Prairie Dogs are Hyper After They Eat Dog Food
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Fine. I’m a Freak.
My library’s website is down. It’s going to be down until April 23rd. I’m more than a little freaked out by this. I’ve already logged in and tried to reserve things today, even though I knew it wasn’t going to let me. This morning, it just spun it’s wheels when I clicked the reserve button. But now… now I see this….
I’m not sure I’m going to survive until April 22nd. I need my library website. I need it BAD.
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Written in Bone
I know I said I wanted the Claudette Colvin book to win the Cybil but I’ve changed my mind after reading Written in Bone.
I didn’t mean to even read Written in Bone last night. I carried it over to my bedside table thinking I’d read it after I finished Demon Chick. But, as I set it down, I flipped it open, saw the photos, and decided to read just a bit of the intro… and then I couldn’t put it down.
Great photos. Interesting stories about finding graves of early settlers in Maryland and Virginia – trying to piece together who the people were, how they lived and how they died. Really fascinating stuff. I should have been an archaeologist!
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice was a good book. Finally a book about bus segregation that digs deeper than MLK and Rosa Parks. Oh I know there are other books out there but they are rare – and they are rarely written for school age kids. Breath of fresh air, that’s what this book is. I’d like to see it win the Cybil. Colvin and the others who are often overshadowed by Parks and King deserve more attention.
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The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festvial
TW laughed so hard while reading the First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival that several times I thought she might fall out of bed or might die of asphyxiation from laughing so hard. Her sense of humor can be a bit weird, so I really didn’t know what to expect.
It was funny – in places. But not THAT funny. At least I didn’t think it was THAT funny. Definitely worth reading and I enjoyed it. But, I felt let down because of how funny TW had indicated the book would be. Maybe she just laughed so hard to trick me? Or maybe she has a thing for priests (and not just nuns?)
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The Message in the Hollow Oak
Funny. Liz saw me reading The Message in the Hollow Oak and said, Hey! That was a good one! And, I didn’t remember it. She’s read very few Nancy Drews and I’ve read them all, most of them multiple times. This one – she liked. This one – I found boring. I’m pretty sure I found it boring as a kid, too, since I don’t even remember reading it.
Ho Hum.
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I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets
I vaguely remember the 6 Word Memoir meme that went around the internets, awhile back. It came, it was interesting, it disappeared. After reading I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets, I’m kind of sorry that it did disappear. I found the 6 word memoirs written by teens to be moving, interesting, and funny – all at the same time, sometimes. I found myself remembering how that felt, thankful that I never felt THAT way, laughing because I saw myself or my kids in another six words.
I’m not sure this is Cybil win worthy BUT, it might be. And if it somehow won, I wouldn’t be sad. This is a book I’d like to own. To just have it sitting around the house, to pick up, read, and think about for the rest of the day. It’s that kind of book.
(By the way, the 6 words written by the teen stars were pretty boring compared to the regular kids’ writing.)
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After
After was the toughest YA book I’ve read in a long, long, long time. 16 year olds who get pregnant are troubling – they’re downright depressing when they throw their babies in dumpsters. Sounds pretty horrid doesn’t it? Well it was – and it wasn’t.
Devon is a good character. The characters around her, also well written. When the book was over, I didn’t hate any of them and I was glad I read the book. It’s hard. Very hard. But it was just about impossible to put it down once I’d made it through that first, horrible, chapter.
The Missing Ink
I saw The Missing Ink on a blog (I don’t remember which one) – and Sassymonkey mentioned it that same day. I put it on my library reserve list because, it’s tattoos! And while I don’t have any, my kids do. It seemed fun.
The book was waiting for me at the library one Saturday. A Saturday that TW and killed time during Prince J’s flute lesson by going to the local independent bookstore. The Missing Ink was on the shelf. I bought it. I thought it would be a great book to take on our trip to Florida – we could both read it and leave it behind for Michelle. I don’t think either of us ended up reading it on the trip, but we did leave it behind. Instead, we both read the library copy that I’d picked up. And we both enjoyed the book quite a bit.
Brett is a great tattoo shop owner. The people who work in her shop are interesting. Las Vegas is always interesting and the perfect place for Tattoo Shop mysteries to take place, don’t you think? There’s a great character, Sylvia – older woman with maybe a wee bit of dementia. She owned a competing shop before passing it along to her son. I love Sylvia. She needs her own series of books.
Looking for a beach read – try this one. It’s light and amusing. Don’t take my word for it… Sassymonkey liked it too.