Movie!

Went to see Bedtime Stories today with Tiffany and Jason. It was a funny movie with lots of laughter and silly things.

More books in the old year :-)

Have to hurry to get my pile down before school starts again.

So, here are two books I read: (and have updated since this morning as I have read more...)

Knit Two by Kate Jacobs (sequel to Friday Night Knitting Club) The Sequel to the Beloved #1 New York Times Bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club

The sequel to the number-one New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club, KNIT TWO returns to Walker and Daughter, the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker and her young daughter, Dakota. Dakota is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at NYU, running the little yarn shop part-time with help from the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club.

Drawn together by the sense of family the club has created, the knitters rely on one another as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventysomething Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children.

As the club’s projects—an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat—are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isn’t the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: it’s the care and attention you bring to the craft—as well as how you adapt to surprises. http://booksellers.penguin.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780399155833,00.html


and No Talking by Andrew Clements (his books are funny and school reading material)

Dave Packer reads about Mahatma Gandhi while learning all about India in social studies class. The fifth grader is fascinated to discover that Gandhi used to spend one day each week not speaking so he could bring order to his mind. Dave, a consummate blabbermouth, thinks this might be an interesting experiment. As Dave sits quietly in the school cafeteria, the voices of the other children ring out loud and clear.  (click here to read more)
This book could be a good book to use in School!!! 




My Update (around noon):
 

Okay, I am not doing anything but catching up on my reading :-)
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban If you are looking for a kids book here it is :-) (yes, it's another school book that is waiting to be returned...)

When you play the piano, you have to get the heart right. Which is harder than getting the notes right. Each note can only be right in one way. A B-flat is a B-flat is a B-flat. A robot can get a B-flat right.
But getting the heart right is something only a person can do. And the ways to do it are as many and as different as there are people in the world.

—from A CROOKED KIND OF PERFECT

And...
...This is what I did by Ann Dee Ellis

Seventh graders Logan and Zyler are best buds. They walk to school together, hang out, ride their bikes and admire pretty Cami Wakefield --- Logan from afar, Zyler slightly more forthright. They usually avoid Zyler’s house, as his father typically stews around in a foul mood and even beats up on Zyler now and again. So outside of school, the guys hang out at Logan’s house; Logan’s family oozes “normalcy” and actually cares for one another. But that was last year --- before the nightmare occurs, before the lives of Logan and Zyler twist and warp through that horrid evening.

Come back later and there might be more :-)
 

Suite Scarlett

Click on the link for a Teen Book Review, yes, this is another teen book (I do work in a school library and need to know what the kids read and I'll not recommend this to 6 or 7 graders). Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson you can read her bio and find out things that are pretty interesting...

And, yes, I did like the book!

A Mile in My Flip-Flops!

This was a wonderful christian book. If you like to read something wholesome you came to the right book!
A Mile in My Flip-Flops by Melody Carlson is just an easy read where you won't have to think and you might know how it ends in the first few pages. I got this from a friend and this book didn't disappoint me, to bad it's done...maybe there will be a sequel which will show us how the casts live will go on...

The Library Diaries

Just finished this book by Ann Miketa. Very interesting read! There are some websites that talk about this book, but I don't know if this one 'Free Speech' really knows what they are talking about. You might want to check out this site 'Goodreads' to read up on it. I found it interesting and am wondering why anyone in their right mind would want to be working in a Public Library...I stay in School!