What are you reading on Mondays?

It's Monday what are you reading?
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I'm about half way done with Huge by James Fuerst.

I'll have a review posted on it by the end of the week.

Also in my TBR pile for the week is-

*What Happened to Casss McBride? by Gail Giles

*Flour Babies by Anne Fine

*If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney

Happy Reading!!

100+ Reading Challenge

January has ended and we are on to February.
As you know I'm doing j-kaye-book-blog 100+
reading challenge. I just wanted to recap January and what I read-
1. The Magician's Elephant
2. Magyk
3. The Cupcake Queen
4. Rules
5. The Wednesday Wars
6. Bloody Jack
Not bad! If you want to join j-kaye's reading challenge head on over to her blog.

BLOODY JACK

Bloody Jack

by L.A. Meyer

2002

278 Pages

Eight year old Mary "Jacky" Faber loses her family to pestilence. In London 1797 it's a rough time to be an orphan. With no family or home Jacky is left to survive on the streets. Sje is soon "adopted" by a gang of orphans where she learns to beg for food and money. But after the gang leader is murdered Mary decides that life as a boy might be an easier path. She cuts her hair, changes her name to Jack and is soon hired on to the HMS Dolphin, a British Navel vessel as a ship's boy.

Jacky now has to use all her wits to keep her secret and learn to survive on board.

Page 130

"All I really want is a small ship," says I, "that could carry a respectable cargo and be able to be handled with just a few-"

"We know what you want, Jacky," says Davy. "Just put a sock in it."

"Piss off, Davy," snarls I, steamed up at being interupted. "Someday, you vile little scab, someday when that wars are all over and you're stranded on shore, you'll come to the fine offices of Faber Shipping Company Worldwide and say, "Will ye be givin' me a post now, Jacky?" and I will not."

Davy laughs. "You'll have to, Jack, because of the Oath of the Brotherhood."

"Well then, Davy, I'll give you a post as a ship's boy and I'll keep you as a ship's boy till you go all bald and stooped in the back, and won't you scrub the head till it shines, by God!"

I loved this book so much! I loved the character Jacky who was full of heart and wit. This book is filled with adventure, humor and a little romance. I can't wait to read the next installment of this series-The Curse of the Blue Tattoo which is already in my TBR pile.

I reccommend this book to ages 12 and up because of some light sexual content. This book is available for check out at the Salmon Public Library.

THE WEDNESDAY WARS

The Wednesday Wars

By Gary D. Schmidt

2007

264 pages

Newbery Honor

Luck is not on the side of seventh grader Holling Hoodhood. Every Wednesday while half of his classmates attend Hebrew School at Temple Beth-El, the other half go to catechism at Saint Adelbert, Holling of Presbyterian faith is left all alone with Mrs. Baker. A teacher he is sure hates him with heat whiter than the sun. At first Mrs. Baker puts Holling in charge of custodian duties around the classroom but after a few freak accidents involving cream puffs, chalk dust and rats she decides that reading Shakespeare together would be much safer for both of them. Holling is absolutely sure that Mrs. Baker is out to get him and tries his very best to be on his best behavior throughout the year. But staying out of trouble is pretty hard to do when your on the top of the junior high bully hit list, man eating rats are after you and your experiencing your first crush.

Page 117

In my mind I could see it all: I pull back my arm, plant my left foot, Doug Swieteck's brother comes sliding into sight, I release the fastball, his face turns toward me at the last moment, and the snow-ice-slush-spitball splatters against his nose. Perfect.

I didn't really think it would happen that way. The snowball would hit the bus. Or I'd miss entirely. Or it would hit someplace that he'd hardly feel. Or maybe he wouldn't even be holding the bumper. Or maybe I wouldn't even throw it.

But I did.

And it happened exactly as I'd imagined it.

Page 240

Can you believe this stuff?

Because you don't have to be Shakespeare to know that's not the way it happens in the real world. In the real world, people fall out of love little by little, not all at once. They stop looking at each other. They stop talking. They stop serving lima beans. After Walter Cronkite is finished, one of them goes for a ride in a Ford Mustang, and the other goes upstairs to the bedroom. And there is a lot of quiet in the house. And late at night, the sounds of sadness creep underneath the bedroom doors and along the dark halls.

That's the way it is in the real world.

If I had to sum up The Wednesday Wars in two words it would be humor and heart. It's a great story filled with laugh out loud moments and tenderness. Holling takes the reader on a journey of growth as he strives to figure out who he is and who he wants to become.

I recommend this book for ages 10 and up. Both boys and girls would get a kick out of Holling Hoodhood. I bought this book at a school book sale and I'm donating it to the Salmon Public Library.

TEASER TUESDAYS......

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:Grab your current readOpen to a random pageShare two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that pageBE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


My Teaser Tuesday is from the book-
The Seer of Shadows
by Avi
Page 18

"It has been suggested to me," she went on when she recovered, "that souls, or ghosts, what some now call the ectoplasm of the departed, linger where they have been laid to rest. I have a feeling"-she put her hand to her heart-"that my daughter, Elenora, is restless." These last words she all but whispered.
The room was silent for a moment, as if we were all listening for movement from elsewhere. "How do I know this" she continued softly. "A mother's heart knows."

CONTEST!

Books at Midnight is giving away a copy of:

Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers

It sounds like a great read and is on my wish list.

To enter head on over to http://booksatmidnight.blogspot.com

Contest ends Feb. 12th and don't forget to read her awesome review!

ANOTHER CONTEST!

Another giveaway on this fine Monday morning!

This contest is sponsored by Dark Faerie Tales at

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The are giving away the book Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and a cool journal!

Get over there and enter! Contest ends Feb. 3