Ack!

I forgot/didn't have time to fill you all in on Matched!  It has been rediculously busy here in the library.  I've had 13 of 14 reading class in the library in the past 4 days getting people excited about Battle of the Books.  And I have to tell you all, the response has been AWESOME!  So great in fact that I am digging into my bookfair money and buying MORE copies of our battle books!  I am so excited to have such a great response (I think around 60 students have signed up). Almost 80 kids have signed up.  This is unbelievable!!! I was hoping to have 20 kids, so this is really just so great to me.  Thank you all for particpating!  But on the flip side...now I'm scared to death my end of the deal is going to flop and all you kids have put in all sorts of efforts and it's going to lame-o.  But just know, I'm trying the best I can and I am just so excited to see how this goes!  Remember the last day to sign up is January 14th.  Next week I will put everyone into teams and the battle will begin!

As for Matched!  OMG!  I was reading this (at my husbands recommendation--thanks hubby) and I looked at him and told him "If The Hunger Games and The Giver had a book baby, this would be it!"  It is just so good.  It's about a society (distopian society that is).  Pretty much all the choices have been taken away.  The government decides when you'll get married and to who.  They send you special food based on your body, everyone wears the same thing depending on where they live, and everyone follows all of the rules. 

The book starts out with main character, Cassia, getting ready to go to a banquet.  This banquet is going to tell her who she is matched (pretty much engaged) to.  She's incredibly nervous because she will most likely be assigned to someone in another city, whom she has never met.  When it's her turn her match is revealed to be her best friend, Xander.  After the banquet she watches the microchip given to her with information about her match--and a picture appears briefly of someone who isn't her match.  As time progresses, she starts to think more and more about the mistake of someone else appearing...and starts to grow closer and closer to someone who is not her match. 

Seriously...this book is awesome.  And a warning: it's part of a trilogy.  And this is the first one...the next one comes out in the fall.  BOOOOOO!  But it gives me something to look forward to.  I'm hoping to get this one for the library soon.

I wrote this post yesterday. Remember when I told you I hate writing?  I was rereading what I had written and my review just doesn't do this book justice.  So I think I'm going to do a video review of it.  So I'm putting my nerdiness out there...but I think it will get everyone WAY more excited about it.