It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

I'm joining Jen and Kelle from Teach Mentor Texts in this weekly post

Oh my, my reading has taken a nosedive. I’ve found my white whale, my book that will be so hard to conquer, and it is called The Story of Mankind. But I’m getting ahead of myself, here’s what I read this week:

Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric Litwin

I Spy With My Little Eye by Edward Gibbs

The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone (amazing, see book review)

My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen

Prudence Wants a Pet by Cathleen Daly

Great books, I feel like I’m on a roll. I’d recommend any one of them.

My reading plan for this week? I’d like to finish the sequel to The Sixty-Eight Rooms, which is called Stealing Magic. What else?

Let me say, this isn’t AWFUL. It really isn’t. But I feel like I’m back in undergrad reading a history textbook. That isn’t what I like to do with my reading free time. Ever so often I’ll say to my husband, “Hey, listen to what I just learned?” and rattle off some fact from this book. But I can’t get over that the intended audience is (supposedly) children. There is no child I can ever imagine one – picking this book up or two – enjoying it. As I said, I’m a history major. I actually have the majority of the background needed for this book, and I’m still struggling. But, I will defeat this white whale, it will not defeat me. And thus, it is my first goal of the week. I’m currently on page 145. I’m trying about 50 pages a day (and not reading the added chapters of the updated version) and I should finish this week. Maybe if I get on a roll I’ll read even more, we’ll see.

Have a great week and happy reading!
Katherine