Actually, the opposite of madness. A week off from work with gorgeous weather spent in state parks and an indoor waterpark with my boys and friends has me feeling very relaxed. But still loving the basketball…
Reading notes.
The Mysterious Benedict Society just really didn’t grab me. Love those orphan stories, but this one didn’t work well for me. Was it Constance? The revelation about her at the end aggravated me rather than clearing things up for me. Surely someone would have asked her age at some point. Good grief.
One Beetle Too Many by Kathryn Lasky. Another great Darwin book. Matthew Trueman’s illustrations really enhance the text.
I’ve just started Do-over by Christine Hurley Deriso. I search of circulation patterns revealed that this is a tremendously popular book in our library and somehow I had missed all the buzz. So far so good. After moving to a new school, Elsa’s dead mother grants her the ability to redo the last ten seconds. Obviously a tempting power to have, albeit fraught with potential pitfalls.
