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When I first set my goal of 61 books for the summer (1 book per day for June and July), I really didn’t think I would reach the goal, but I considered it a good goal, nonetheless.  Today, I finished book number 42 on my way to 61.  While I haven’t done a great job [...]

Sunday night I stayed up until 2 am to finish Gone by Michael Grant.  This was an intense fantasy book.  The book starts on a normal day in a normal city when all of the sudden all of the people in the city 15 and over disappear into thin air.  This leaves a city full [...]

Yesterday I finished Cities of the Dead:  Finding Lost Civilizations which was an interesting read about archaeology and how archaeologists look for “lost” civilizations.  This book contains chapters about the lost city of Atlantis, an historic trading city named Ubar, and Easter Island.  The information is fascinating, and the layout is engaging. I also read [...]

Today is the third official day of my book a day adventure.  I am already feeling the crunch of trying to ready 61 books in two months.  So far, I’ve ready The Sky is Everywhere, Vlad the Impaler, and Roanoke:  The Mystery of the Lost Colony.  Vlad the Impaler shed some light on a violent [...]

The Book Whisperer has issued a summer challenge to read a book a day for each day of summer vacation.  That’s quite a lofty goal and I’m not sure I can make it, but I’m going to try.  I am hoping to ready 61 books this summer.  That’s a book a day for each day [...]

I just finished The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon.  This book is set during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.  As a matter of fact, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death is an important event in the book.  This book focuses on Sam, a young African-American trying to determine how he [...]

I took two trips to Barnes and Noble this weekend to support the library’s bookfair there.  Today, I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, just looking (I had a gift card to spend).  I was pleasantly surprised to find the 8th (and final) Charlie Bone book on the shelf.  I have been an avid follower [...]

I have long been a fan of fantasy.  I loved the Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings, and many others.  However, I was a little hesitant to pick up City of Bones (Book one of the Mortal Instruments Trilogy), thinking that it would fall into the vampire genre that I have typically avoided.  When [...]

A rainy Sunday afternoon is great for reading or watching baseball on television.  Today I’m watching baseball on television and writing about a baseball book that I recently finished reading.  Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series is one of four books featuring Stevie and Susan Carol as young sports writers who have a knack for [...]

Before Pepper was born, his aunt had a vision in which she learned that Pepper would not live past his 14th birthday.  The book starts on Pepper’s 14th birthday when he awakes realizing that he will die that day. Fourteen-year-old Pepper is not sure how his death will come, but he is sure that it [...]