Ahhh, Summer!

Well, I have not been so good about keeping up to date with my blogging! I do have a couple of good excuses: my computer was out of commission for a couple of weeks, and . . . um . . . well . . . it's summer!

I have been lazy about posting, but not too bad about reading. For the Caudills I've read Project Mulberry, The Green Glass Sea, A Drowned Maiden's Hair, Blood on the River, Black Storm Comin', Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, and Wolf Brother.

I enjoyed all of these titles - I think the one that was the most fun to read was A Drowned Maiden's Hair. It had an old-fashioned feel and a bit of spooky ghost story to it.

For the Battle books, I re-read Ella Enchanted and The Hobbit. I read The Hobbit many times growing up, and I still love that book. I think when you've read something over and over there's a comfortable familiarity that's almost like drinking hot chocolate on a cold day. You just want to go "ahhhhh".

Then, just for a break from Caudills and Battles, I read Mister Monday by Garth Nix (now I'm going to have to read the rest of that series - what a grabber!), Son of the Mob: The Hollywood Hustle by Gordan Korman (a gangster comedy), Eggs by Jerry Spinelli (an unlikely friendship between two troubled kids), and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (a sobering story of the Holocaust).

Over the next couple of days I'll try to post short summaries of all these books!

Keep reading!