Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

So…as you will see in the upcoming wrap up, I read quite a few books in March. I don’t think I will read quite as many in April since I don’t have the benefit of Spring Break but we will see! 25 in 25 Priority Series + Finish Series Buzzwordathon Cover + Reading Fully Booked…

These are the books that I read prior to the release of the list. Most of these reviews are shorter than the reviews that I now write. This book completely captivated me and left me wanting more after this book finished.Kuo places each word carefully in this free verse novel based on her own life…

This book took a little too long to get to the reveal which brought the vents together and explained why Sunny was spending the summer with her grandpa in his retirement community. Prior to that reveal, I had not really engaged with the narrative and even found myself a little confused by the flashbacks which,…

I enjoyed this contemporary middle grade novel about a young Indian American girl who loves to draw but also feels constantly anxious to the point of throwing up and not eating breakfast consistently to avoid throwing up. She feels pressure to help her mom with her clothing story because of money pressures that she’s constantly…

In most month long readathons, the second or third weekend becomes a mini more intensive read as much as you can readathon. This past weekend was the 48 hour “Gala of Peace” as part of Realmathon. With the weekend falling at the start of Spring Break, I made grand plans. Thanks to a rather large…

I had planned to have a few more books to discuss in this first installment. Technically, I have finished a few more. However, as you will see in the next post, I read quite a few books for the “Gala of Peace” aka a 48 hour readathon that’s part of Realmathon so I have a…

Most people would probably not jive with this book since it leans more towards the academic side. As an amateur historian and social studies educator, a book like this falls right into my wheelhouse. The author did an excellent job handling this significant event from a comprehensive angle while maintaining a chronological structure to the…

This month I had *only* 3 DNFs. Like last month, all of them came from book boxes. I will definitely analyze that more in my future book box subscription audit. For now, I will simply talk about them briefly since after stopping my read of them, I put them out of my mind. I got…

This episode will end up being a bit shorter than all the previous episodes for a couple reasons. One, I need to write the reviews a lot closer to when I read the books. Two, I have less to review due to a few weekdays without independent reading time in my classroom – aka a…

I have had success with Gratz’ books before although they do tend to drift towards being rather pedantic which this one fell unfortunately prey to. Not until the epilogues do all the perspective sfinally come together making it difficult to integrate the three perspectives. It also became exhausting because every time the character found a…