oh, also

my friend started an online blogspot after she saw ours- "mommieswhoread.blogspot.com" (that's mommies who read, not mommies whore ad). check it out if you're interested and, like jules (can i call you jules), read lots and lots of books.

blogger is smart

i didn't need another invite to come to new blogger, it just switched me over by itself. go smart blogger, go. so, i'm trying to read enna burning but can't get into it. is it a sequel? do i need to read the other one first? any other suggestions?

fantasy

i just read the two princess of bamarre. i know, i know. we're supposed to be reading shannon hale this month, but gail carson levine has SO many good books and i want to read them all before moving on to river secrets which is the only shannon hale i haven't read yet. i LOVED the two princesses of bamarre.

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i am not a fantasy fan. or at least i thought i wasn't. but this book is very...fantastical...fantasy-filled. (what is that word?) so, fantasy or not, i love books with strong female characters and even though the book is all about one of the sisters/princesses supposedly NOT being strong, she is. she's my kind of strong. quietly strong. so, it struck a chord deep inside of me. but back to the fantasy aspect. normally when i'm reading fantasy, my eyes just glaze over during all the funky hybrid animal descriptions and dramatic battles, but i actually hung onto the whole plot for the entire book. which probably isn't hard for the normal avid reader, but it is usually hard for me and...let's just say that i am proud of myself, alright. i loved this book.

new blogger

Well, blogger will no longer let me log into the old blogger anymore - it dragged me, kicking and screaming, into the new blogger. I hope this doesn't mess anybody up. On another note, I think we're reading books by Shannon Hale this month (she wrote Goose Girl, Enna Burning, Princess Academy, and River Secrets). I don't have any of them yet - but sooner or later I will. The only one I've read is Goose Girl, so I'm looking forward to some new stories. Also, we've had some suggestions to meet - maybe towards the latter half of the months, when we've actually had a chance to read something? What do you think?