Feb 24, 2012

Friday Hops

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This week's question is: Activity!!! Take a picture or describe where you love to read the most…




MY ANSWER: Not time for picture taking right now. But basically I read in my room on my bed! Which isn't anything super special. I just prop myself up on my pillows and chillax as I read!


TGIF is a weekly feature created and hosted by GReads! that re-caps the week’s posts and has different question each week.


This week's question is: Required Reading: Which book from your school days do you remember reading & enjoying? Is there a book published now that you'd like to see in today's curriculum for kids?




MY ANSWER: Ooh I like this one! It took 12 years before I finally read a book I was forced to that I really enjoyed and that was Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. It really took me by surprise that I enjoyed this so much since there wasn't anything paranormal in it--by that time I was immersed in paranormal books and that was all I wanted to read! 

I want to say that maybe it was the whole revenge theme. The way he did it. I just thought it was very smart and cunning! What's not to like!

I guess in a way I think that Syrie James' Nocturne is a pretty good book. Although I honestly can't see a way to work it into the curriculum. But because it is a vampire book that has a different kind of ending I think it's a good book for vampire obsessed teens to read. Although I feel bad for anyone not in that category having to read it.
I think I didn't enjoy the books I had to read in school because I had to read them. I didn't come across them on my own or anything. It was just forced on me. Which is also why I don't really care for classics and also why I am having a hard time answering the second part of this question! 

***Just thought of a good one! The Historian by Elizabeth Kostava! There's history and vampire-ness!!