so there’s finals – sort of – this week – which is good enough an excuse to not have you turn in work – remember though, reading logs and the read six challenge for bama-au are due either this week or the following…

“miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children” – high school BOB – good book – read okay – if you want the recap, grandson goes back in time, falls in love with what might have been his grandmother, and fights off soulless vampire-ish things that want to destroy the peculiar children – all of whom have pictures included in the book – and somehow, that book worked:)

“jabba the puppet” – the new origami yoda book – jared is right – the books get better – in this one, the seventh grade kids try to overthrow standardized testing and its ridiculous “drill and kill” practices – while also surviving middle school drama from things like dances and such – always an entertaining series read

“college at 13” – authors from Virginia finished a study of women who went off to college early – what works – what doesn’t – I guess what struck me most about the book was how easy it was for most of the girls – you’d think a jump would be really hard – but for most highly gifted, what’s hard is surviving middle and high school – b/c it’s boring

i’m reading a running book now so live is good

maf