My goal for this week was to finish The Story of Owen and read at least 150 pages in a new book. Thanks to our snow day, I not only read 150 pages, I read all 255 pages of The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds (who on Monday…
My goal for this week was to finish Red Rising by Pierce Brown, which meant reading 220 pages. I met my goal; in fact, I also started a new book, The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim, and read to page 70.
I am reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown, and I am currently on page 141. My goal for next week is to finish the book (which has 400 pages total). This might be a bit ambitious, given that this is the crazy season for…
I met my goal and then some, reading ten books in the last two weeks. The two best were The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Foley, the story of an Irish-American girl who moves with her mom and new stepfather to Ireland in the '90s,…
I met my goal of reading all 374 pages of Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley. It's a historical fiction account of the integration of Jefferson High School in Virginia, told from the viewpoints of two girls, one black and one…
My goal for today was to read all of Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga, and I accomplished that. I also read Far From You by Tess Sharpe, the crazy brother/sister/best friend /love triangle/murder mystery I talked about in class…
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