48HBC Fail Again

Oh well, I got 18 hours of reading and almost two books in, but since I'm on vacation & depending on hotel wi-fi, I missed the deadline for the finish line post.  I'll just try harder next year!  Maybe I'll not be on vacation next year.

Reading Challenge Update 2

In addition to the 9 hours from June 3rd, I have read the following times

Saturday, June 4
12:30AM - 1:30AM (1 hour)
8:30AM - 9:30AM (1 hour)
12:30PM - 4:00PM (3.5 hours)
8:00PM - 8:30PM (.5 hours)
11:30PM - 12:00AM (.5 hours)
Total time read June 4 = 6.5 hours

Sunday, June 5
12:00AM - 2:30AM (2.5 hours)

Grand Total time read so far = 18 hours

Unfortunately, most of today's reading was done while in the car or while other things were going on around me, so I had to re-read pages quite often, as I was distracted by my surroundings, or more often my husband :), so I am still reading Matched by Allie Condie.

Reading Challenge Progress, Haiku Review!

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Gang member, perfect pom queen,
chemistry partners,
risk all to be together

Reading time so far in MotherReader's 48-Hour Reading Challenge:

Friday June 13

9:00AM - 1:00PM (4 Hours)

1:30PM - 1:45PM (15 Mins)
3:15PM - 3:30PM (15 Mins)
4:45PM - 7:45PM (3 Hours)
10:45PM - 12:15AM (1.5 Hours)
Total time so far = 9 Hours

Now back to reading...

Next up is Matched by Ally Condie

Reading Challenge is Now!

 I'm starting MotherReader's 6th Annual 48-Hour Reading Challenge with Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles. 

Throughout the challenge, I will update my progress here and through my Goodreads profile. I read a chapter before this post, so my official starting time is 9:00AM EST.

Wow. Where did 2+ years go?

Oh yeah.  Two jobs, a toddler and a preteen sure eat up the hours.  I've kept up with reading, but not so much reviewing.

Just signed up for the 48-Hour Book Challenge at MotherReader.  Hopefully now that Sam has started "reading" on his own a little, I can reasonably attempt 48-hours of reading/reviewing this year.

New Year

I know a lot of people make resolutions at New Year's, but I usually don't. I come up with goals for myself all year long, and there's no giant change occurring between December 31st of one year and January 1st of the next, so why make a list now? However, this year I decided there are enough changes I would like to make at this moment that I really should list them. These are not all serious enough that I am "resolving" to accomplish them all, but like the To Do lists I frequently make, this list is intended as a reminder and will be subject to reevaluation throughout the year.

To Do 2009
Every day I want to...

• smile
• tell each member of my immediate family "I love you"
• write something, anything (not just here)
• take a picture (for my new Project365)
• thank God
• read a little bit (or more than a little :)

Every week I want to...

• do something fun with Hannah
• spend some time alone with Aaron
• post something for Poetry Friday
• post something on this blog
• work on a creative project (books, sewing, something!)
• go to the gym

Sometime this year I want to...

• go somewhere pretty & have a picnic
• actually put photos in Sam's baby book
• have enough handmade books to start an Etsy shop

This year I don't want to...

• argue with Hannah as much
• get irritated over little things
• stress about things beyond my control

This doesn't actually seem like a lot now that I see it all together. Anyway, wish me luck!

See my Project365 photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/librariangelist/

Long time, no post

Look what I've been busy doing
http://www.hcboe.net/main/School/MHHSE/library.html

Scroll down and click on the puzzle pieces for Reference and Books.

You can also see our current checkout and visit stats all the way at the bottom of the main page.

We had our first after-school book club meeting in the library this afternoon. I would consider it a success, since there were at least 7 kids still in the library when I closed up at 4:00. Instead of a small group all reading the same book, it looks like we'll mosty be a large group talking about a bunch of different books. I'd like to include not just books, but also magazines, websites, music, movies. The kids want to start each meeting with a broad group discussion topic and then break into smaller groups for futher discussion, creating fan fiction/art, visiting websites, etc. We're also going to have occasional special events, including screenings of movies on our library's big projection screen. So far all the kids seem really cool and very enthusiastic/energetic. We're going to start meeting regularly next Monday. They want to meet every week. The only problem with that is that all our regularly scheduled monthly faculty meetings are on Mondays. I didn't think of this until I was leaving to pick up Sam from the babysitter. I seem to have a mental block against faculty meetings. I almost always forget about them. Anyway, I guess we could shift the meeting to Tuesdays on faculty meeting days, as long as I can remember to tell the kids in advance. More on this later...