powerpoint woes

i wish i could blog powerpoints!

busy as a bee

i’m ridiculously busy with these two jobs. plus i was dogsitting for five days… i have a zillion things to do and i wish updating blogs was higher on my priority list.

my first booktalk

i finished the list!

https://emilybrary.wordpress.com/assorted-bibliographies/3rd-grade-book-talk/

holds, oh holds, how i hate you

A few reasons my list didn’t work:

• Holds kept coming available that I wanted to read more than the books on that list.
• Some of the books on that list I realized I didn’t actually want to read or re-read.
• Holds kept coming available that I wanted to read more than the books on the list.
• I’m impatient.

Now I have nearly all my impatient holds, so I’m going to try and have my list again. We’ll see how it goes.

I also just picked up a copy of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die and I’m hoping to knock one of those out a month… at least one of the 20th and 21st century ones, anyways… any older than that and you’ll see a post from a close relative saying “sorry everyone, emilybrary’s died of boredom.”  (Yeah, I’m that cynical about old literature.  I just can’t do it.  I never have been able to, which is why I probably haven’t read anywhere near as many books in that book as I should.  I just put it and the children’s version on my Amazon wishlist though, if you know me & like buying me presents.)

to read list sort of … didn’t work out as planned

but i’ve still been reading a lot. I’ll try and get an update on here at some point soon.

new page

I made a new page — assorted bibliographies.

Right now I’m working on a third grade book talk, so that page will be morphing in the next few weeks.

I’ve put my Mock Caldecott & Newbery blog-posting on a back burner.

In other news, Mockingjay was incredible.  What did you think?

Graph of Books Read Since 2006

I almost miss 2007’s second summer job that allowed me to read 3 books a day.  I miss being able to read 3 books a day — but not that job.

book count update –

147 books in 2010
26 in July.

addictions to pages

Thus far in 2010, I have read 145 books.  This is more books than I read in 2006, 18 books less than I read in 2007, 23 books less than I read in 2008, and 31 books less than I read in 2009.  So far… my goal of reading twenty books a month this year has been a rousing success, even though February (19), May (19), and June (15) were short.  March (27), April (21) and July (24 so far) are high book count months.

My Dewey Lunatic Project is also going well – I’ve so far read 10 of the 927 books required.

I sit at 55 books read thus far in 2010 for J. Kaye’s 2010 YA Reading Challenge, and in the Countdown Challenge, I need 3 more books published in 2006, 3 more from 2005, and 2 from 2003.

I like challenging myself to read like this.  Anyone know of any other reading challenges going on in blogs?  I know LibraryThing does a ReadaThon… but I’m looking for something that’s more of a longterm challenge/goal.

D’oh

I was fiddling with WP themes and lost the amazing one I had.  So…. blog under construction for a bit.  But I may have a surprise for you all.  Maybe.