Hi friends... It's been a long while since I've posted. I did my book reviews this last year on my facebook because it seemed easier at the time. I've been slacking on reviewing books. I think because I spend so much of my daily life recommending the books I've read to students. I love my job. I love that I get to talk to teens about what they're interested in and try to match that to a book that will make them eager to have a few minutes of class time to read their books. Maybe that's why being on an award committee is hard for me. Last year, I was a reader for a smaller, local award. I only had to read four books. I was asked not to talk about them until the award had been awarded. That was still kind of hard. I wanted to complain about the one I thought was too didactic, to bemoan the one that had such an incredible idea but had been pseudo-self-published and would have been so so much better in the hands of a professional editor and agent, I wanted to
Note: The survey is for books you read throughout the year, no matter when they were published, and is not limited to just books that came out in 2017!! Number Of Books You Read: 150 (!!! Met my personal goal!) Number of Re-Reads: 4 Genre You Read The Most From: Manga and Graphic Novels probably 1. Best Book You Read In 2017? This is hard because I was lucky to read a lot of amazing books this year. Probably either Long Way Down , My Friend Dahmer , Six of Crows , or A Court of Thorns and Roses . 2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? Probably Asylum or Out of the Easy . I was excited to read both of them, and they were both sort of let-downs for me. 3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read? Hmmm, maybe The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis. 4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did)? A Court of Thorns and Roses or Six of Crows . 5. Best series you started