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 :-)