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Ah, glorious summer. Bleh. The bugs. The sunburn. The mobs at work. I think some times the only thing that gets me through it all is my summer reading list! Just three months until wonderful, glorious fall!!! Here is my challenge to myself, and yes, I have already started!!!! SUMMER 2013 Reading List: links go to Goodreads, comments are my own 1. I Am The Messenger (I should have read this by now, bad me and now T's summer reading book) 2. Dead to You (I love Lisa Mc Mann and I prefer her standalone books) 3. Revived (Cat Patrick is awesome, but this one came in when I was starting my new job and I didn't get to it. Until now.) 4. The Originals (see above, I waited too long and now look! Another one is out!!!) 5. Double Identity  (G's summer reading book) 6. Looking for Alaska (I own this and have never read it, as is almost always the case with books I own) 7. Between Shades of Gray (see above, same reason) 8. The Book Thief 9. Jasper Jones (I...

The other day I was forced to admit, I just do not read enough Middle Grade books. This is ironic, because the majority of my reference questions are about MG books. A woman came in and said that her son was done with the My Weird School series, and she wanted to know what he should read next. Thank goodness for Novelist, but when the list printed out (contemp., mg, humorous) I realized I had not read many of them at all. So, I plan to correct this. I started with The Strange Case of Origami Yoda . I must admit I had checked this one out when it first came in simply because the crafter/Star Wars fan in me wanted to make a yoda. I did not actually read it then. The crux: A creepy kid named Dwight walks around school with an origami yoda puppet on his finger dishing advice. Some of the advice is brilliant, some...not so much. Tommy has compiled a case file of incidences in order to get to the bottom of the "mystery". Last night, I sat down and plowed through it. It took me ...