Need...Help...Please

I need boy book suggestions.  It is the only way I can figure out how to get out of this rut of vampire/zombie/love/girlie books.  My brain has had enough of them.  Give me boy books.  Fighting.  Hunting.  Talking about boy things!  I don't care what, just help a girl out here!

WAAAAA! A Month!

I don't even know where that month has gone!  I haven't been doing anything special.  Today I did accomplish getting my new bulletin board up.  It's for Battle of the Books.  I'll post a picture when I remember to bring my phone with me. 

So Battle of the Books is upon us.  The end of 3rd quarter is March 25, which means the next week we will start battling!  I am so incredibly excited about this.  I am working on getting questions together for the battles and that is overwhelming.  I think I have about 2000 questions to chose from!  So I will be thrilled once I have a system down for that.  Did I mention I got some new prizes?  How do Kindles for the winning team sound??? I am BEYOND thrilled to offer that!!!  I hope the kids love them. 

My book reading has come to a standstill.  Although I did read The Forest of Hands and Teeth last week and it was the creepiest book I have ever read.  I will post a review next week.  Until then!

Book Club

The middle school book club will be meeting March 4 (Friday) during both lunches to discuss A Wrinkle in Time.  After that I am thinking that Chains and The Hunger Games will round out the book club year.  I feel aweful that it took so long to get the club going.  But this year I was overwhelmed with Battle of the Books reading, and I lost my readers who sort of ran the club itself which was a nice break for me.  So I have lived and learned and hope to get back on track next year. 

Today I am working on getting new books ready to be checked out, cleaning up some loose ends, and having a rather quiet day in here.  It's been pretty nice.  I hope you're having a great day!

Sorry for the disappearence!

I'm around--we have had a ton of new books come into the library so I've been playing with those.  It is the beginning of the semester and I have library aids, so I've been working with them.  AND I FINISHED READING THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS BOOKS!!!  I am so excited to be done with that :)  So I can read some new books!  I am so glad I read all of these books--there were a few that I would never have picked up and I would have missed out on some great reading.  The biggest surpise: Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice.  I learned so much from this book about segregation and desegregation, the South during this period, how women were treated, and to be honest: laws in general.  It really was a pleasure to learn while reading this book.

Book club met after we read Roar by Emma Clayton and now we're going to read A Wrinkle In Time.  FYI, I have never read it and I'm pretty excited to. 

It's been a busy week but hopefully I'll be back later with more news. 

Where do you get yours?

Where do you get your books?  Do you want to read your books electronically?  Or from the library?  Do you go to the public library?  Do you listen to books on tape?  I'm curious as to how you all read!

I myself am undiscerning about where my books come from.  A lot come from people who pass it on to me to read.  A ton come from the public library (especially if I'm previewing it for my library).  Many are suggestions from the hubby.  And yes, I have a Kindle and am super stoked to read on that instead of stealing my hubby's.  Be sad FMMS library because that means I won't be able to pass the okay books on to you :( But let me know! 

it's rad

The best part of my day:  kids who WANT to come to the library and read.  One of them hasn't said more than 5 words to me.  He just stood at the counter reading a magazine.  Then sat down to start reading The Hunger Games.  I love my job. 

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.