Summer Reading

Work lately has been so busy that I have been finding myself really starting to look forward to a little down time before "Peanut" arrives. If you don't already know, I love to read and always have. One genre I love to read is Young Adult fiction. Often they have amazing stories, drama, and romance without all the raunchy material found in adult books. Over the past years I have really enjoyed all the Harry Potter books (we'll be seeing the final midnight showing with friends on July 14!),

the Golden Compass Series,

the Twilight series,

the Percy Jackson series (and other of Rick Riordan books),

the Abarat series,

 and, my favorite lately, the Hunger Games Trilogy

So this summer I was not really focused on any specific new series until I finished reading a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, which had a list of the "Hot" new YA fiction that will be coming out. So what did I do? I went on the Ann Arbor District Library website and requested all of the books that were recommended! So now I have a large stack of books that I need to read in the next 6 weeks before I move to Bourbonnais. One book that I had already heard and read about was "Matched," which I highly enjoyed

Now I am looking forward to the second book "Crossed," coming out in September

I love recommendations, and maybe I will even try to read "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" again after struggling through the first 100 pages.