Scrambled Eggs at Midnight

Scrambled Eggs at Midnight by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler was my reading fun for today. I really enjoyed it. Cal (Calliope) is constantly moving with her mother from town to town. She has recently moved to Asheville, North Caroline for the summer Reinessance Faire. She meets Eliot. Eliot's family owns and operates a camp outside of Asheville for overweight Christians. Eliot and Cal meet in town in a book shop. From then on they are connected almost immediately. Cal is finally able to establish some roots that are on the brink of being ripped out again when some major life changes are made for Cal and for Eliot. Cal and Eliot tell the stories from their point of view in alternative chapters. I thought the story was told very well. Each lead character was well developed and fleshed out. They each grow and change as the story progresses.

shadow dance

I recently finished Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood. i enjoyed it alot. I'm a fan of Julie Garwood's in particular and series/linked characters in general and this book tied a lot of things together. Jordan Buchanan who's brothers had a number of books already and Noah Clayborne who showed up in a number of previous books are the starring characters in this novel. Noah challenges Jordan to shake up her safe world. He doesn't plan for her to find dead bodies in the process. What I like about this book was that it gave insight into Noah's as well as Jordan's through "his point of view." Too often we only read the female's point of view. This book also tied together some of Julie Garwood's earlier titles, in particular Come the Spring for Noah Clayborne's character and Ransom for Jordan Buchanan's character. Until this point I never realized that the leading man from Ransom and the entire Buchanan family from the contemporary suspense novels were connected.

whoops

ok...so it's been a year since i posted and i hadn't posted very much at all before that but i'm going to try and be better about it now...so let's go

Avalon High

So yesterday I started reading Avalon High by Meg Cabot. I enjoyed what I was reading. This morning when I got up this morning I picked it up again. And I couldn't put it down. I stayed in bed 2 hours reading it. Lucky for me today was a free day for me since I work on Sunday. I made myself get up. Ate breakfast. Got myself together. Started some laundry and pulled the sheets off the bed. Then I stretched myself out across my bed and picked up Avalon High again. I didn't put it down until I was done. And when I was done I was upset that I didn't have another Meg Cabot book to read. I really like her style of writing. I think she usually writes from first person, at least her teen chic lit. She uses popular culture. Her characters don't have huge egos. They are actually usually self-deprecating. They are also usually pretty smart and down to earth. What a great role model she is providing. Yahoo Meg Cabot!

Avalon High(2006). Meg Cabot. NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
Ellie is the new girl at Avalon High. Somehow she becomes part of the In Crowd and then gets wrapped up in an King Arthur tragedy. Ellie is a character who has a great deal of confidence who keeps her head when things start to fall apart around her.

who am i

So I guess the introduction comes first. I am Terri. I am a Youth Services Librarian. I love books, reading, and connecting them to children. Good job choice for me. I'm planning to use this site to keep a running list of the books I'm reading. After 4 Literature for Children classes this has become my annotated bibliogprahy. Hope you enjoy it.