It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 9/121/2020
What I Read
I actually read three books this week, making me feel much more like myself! I read Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It’s an intense novel written with a deft hand.
I also read Raising Lumie by Joan Bauer about a young girl raising a seeing-eye puppy. The story was great, unfortunately it left a bad taste in my mouth because it mentions a pit bull in a very negative way when it wasn’t really necessary to do so. I have a pit-mix myself and although I’m aware that some can cause a lot of trouble, so can a lot of other dogs. Mine is literally lying half in my lap, snuggling while I write this. And she’s got some issues, for sure, we rescued her at just under a year old, but I can’t imagine my life without my sweet girl. I just find it sad that we need to perpetuate a stereotype like this when there are so many pit-mixes in rescues around the country.
And finally over the weekend, I read Every Missing Piece by Melanie Conklin. Another novel written so well as a young girl grapples with the loss of her dad, gaining a new stepfather, and trying to manage her anxiety at home and school.
What I’m Planning to Read
This week, I pulled three books off my shelf. Let’s see what I can accomplish – Something to Say by Lisa Moore Ramée, Eva Evergreen-Semi Magical Witch by Julie Abe, and The Candy Mafia by Lavie Tidhar. I’m hoping that I can at least read two of these books this week, but who knows, maybe I’ll surprise myself!
What are you reading plans this week? Anything I should put on my list?
Join Jen from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers and share all of the reading you have done over the week from picture books to young adult novels. Check out the hashtag #IMWAYR for reading suggestions from readers across the globe.
