What I’ve been reading this month for pleasure:
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Breaking Point by
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Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes
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In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier
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Megan’s Island by Willo Davis Roberts
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Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters bynotjazz (Gail Giles)
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Shattering Glass bynotjazz (Gail Giles)
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Dangling by Lillian Eige
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by e. l. konigsburg
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No Limit by Pete Hautman
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Invisible by Pete Hautman
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Geography Club bybrentsbrain (Brent Hartinger)
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Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher (reread)
What I’ve been reading for research: (3 guess what the topic was for the NF proposal I just turned in)
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A Time to Stand by Walter Lord
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The Alamo Remembered, Tejano Accounts and Perspectives by Timothy M. Matovina
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Women and Children of the Alamo by Crystal Sasse Ragsdale
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Echoes from Women of the Alamo by Gale Hamilton Shiffrin
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A Line in the Sand by Randy Roberts and James S. Olson
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The Boy in the Alamo by Margaret Cousins
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Alamo Traces by Thomas Ricks Lindley
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1836 Facts About the Alamo by Mary Deborah Petite
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Inside the Alamo by Jim Murphy
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The Alamo by Frank Thompson
Ummmmm . . . .
The Alamo? ;0)
I’m on a Community Reads committee and the chosen book this year was Whale Talk. I absolutely loved the characters and the premise.
Chris Crutcher will be visiting on the 27th; three presentations during the day and an communinity wide presentation that night. I can’t wait!
hahaha – yep.
Every time I reread anything by Crutcher I get something new out of it. I heard him read not too long ago and I predict you’ll have a great time.
Ummmmm . . . .
The Alamo? ;0)
I’m on a Community Reads committee and the chosen book this year was Whale Talk. I absolutely loved the characters and the premise.
Chris Crutcher will be visiting on the 27th; three presentations during the day and an communinity wide presentation that night. I can’t wait!
hahaha – yep.
Every time I reread anything by Crutcher I get something new out of it. I heard him read not too long ago and I predict you’ll have a great time.
Do you finish all the books you start?
I finish
99% of the fiction I start. There is the occasional book that doesn’t work for me that I just give up on. (I’m talking up through YA – I rarely read adult fiction.)
For the research books it all depends. Some books need to be read completely to get the flavor and some are only read to learn about the character and/or place I am studying.
I am one of those really rapid readers which is both good and bad. 😉
Do you finish all the books you start?
Thanks for reading BREAKING POINT. It’s the least-mainstream of my books, so I always like people paying attention to my “awkward child.” I just this morning got a heartfelt letter from a teen about it, expressing “High school is so scary at times.” That was nice.