of course, the answer is yes – i know it’ll be tough, but stay indoors and watch for mayfield appearances from media days on espn’s sec network – i’ll try and wear my great plaid pants in order to stick out…

“touchdown tony” – this will be a great book to go with the movie coming out this fall about b’ham integration – woodlawn – this is about one of the central characters – tony nathan – great book about the city’s history

“a year in the life of a complete and total genius” – probably setting up to be a series – a seventh grader with a major writing assignment – brings up the question: what do you do in a book when you feel like there’s been a major injustice created? that is, the situation in the book is resolved, but not the way you thought it should be – i had the same problem with the “lamar” book for BOB years ago

“throwback” – former major league player complains about how everyone else plays the game – but himself – it wasn’t the best…

“long walk to water” – it had been several years since i’d read it – so i needed a reread – still good – still took, like a couple of hours – i will try very hard not to go off on the next sixth grade parent that tells me how “tough” it was to do summer reading…

“grimm legacy” – this book wasn’t nearly as good as i thought it was – my apologies:) but the whole coupling off at the end was very predictable – i really didn’t like the use of magic in the book – like, it didn’t make sense that these objects had been around forever – and yet no one knew about them – except this creepy old guy that developed a plan to sneak them out – over time – with replicas – from another object he stole – just a lot of logic leaps that seemed convenient – that said, i can teach red herring to sixth grade now – and i’ll read the sequel – so it could’ve been worse

one week to registration – yeah:)

mafeld