Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

For a girl who could count on one hand the number of books I had ever DNF’d, getting to the point of DNF’ing not just one but four books in the same month is a big deal. Since I have way too many books that I want to read, I have no time to waste…

Unlike the other graphic novelizations of Disney movies, I have watched the source material for this one. While I think that this one did a decent job in adapting the story, I prefer this story in its original form. I think, perhaps, these adaptions would work much better if Disney spent a little bit more…

Kim Johnson did it again. This story packed a punch and will definitely live for quite a while in my head. In this story, Andre, a high school senior, tries to make it day to day starting with serving the punishment for a crime he did not commit to quickly including the rapid descent into…

I have participated in various versions of Jade from Jadeyraereads‘ Polarthon readathon. This readathon usually occurs throughout the first week of February but this year Jade made it the whole month since she is currently in Iceland on a Trovatrip (which I really wanted to go on!). Of course I wanted to try. I have…

My experience with this book suffered a little bit due to switching between the ebook and the audiobook since I had not developed a pronunciation of many of these names in my head while reading the ebook. Thus, it took me a little while for me to associate the spoken names with the characters. Apart…

Whether it’s the cluster that is the country in which I live (and my attempt to cope with that) or the fact that my increased pace from the last couple months appears to have decided to stick around but I reached 50 books read this month, the highest monthly total during the school year. Take…

I don’t know when I thought of the idea to check out graphic novels from the library to read in my classroom and evaluate for possible addition to my classroom library but the project is going well so far. Since many of them are significantly shorter than my normal reads and my primary purpose for…

I had marginally high hopes for this book because I have read Dylan’s debut novel. Since that was sci-fi and I prefer fantasy, the genre of this book, to sci-fi, I thought that this one might work even better. I did temper my expectations after reviews came out expressing disappointment. Unfortunately, my experience feel in…

As I mentioned in one of my goal posts, I want to make this readathon a priority. So far, so good. I had this first gym planned out and the time set aside to plough through the three Doctor Who comic collections I chose for most of the prompts. Along with the Doctor Who comic…