What I'm Reading Monday - Who needs a man?

I have slacked on posting again (mostly because my computer at work can't handle all of my multitasking during lunch time).  I hopefully will have a better go at it this week.  I may start having to just post random life happenings just to get me back into the groove of posting everyday again.

Anyway on to the good stuff.

I have been a busy reader.  Mostly because I have a lot of different things started.

Jon and I finished Airborn.  I really enjoyed it and was glad that it tied everything up very nicely.  I liked that each character had a different reader.

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Of course I had the second one ready to go.  It is Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel.  It continues Matt and Kate's story by hunting after a ship that most people had thought smashed into the ocean years and years before.  I really disliked how they got a different person to read for Kate's character.  It was driving me crazy on the way to work the first morning.  I am starting to get used to it now that the book is well into the 10th chapter, but I think I would have enjoyed the first reader more.

I am still working on Mysterious Skin.  I am about 1/3 of the way through and I am beginning to see how all of their lives are starting to come together.  I am still a little weirded out by some of the stuff happening in the story - all of the molestation of kids is a little off-putting.  I am thinking how all of this would translate to the big screen and I don't think I want to watch the movie... the book is descriptive enough.

I have made absolutely no progress on Alibi In High Heels.  I have to say that Mysterious Skin has me completely distracted from it.

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Kellee let me borrow a graphic novel from her and she asked if I could get it back to her before school started.  Well her school starts with kids next week so I decided I better start reading it today.  I managed to start and finish it today.  It is Princeless Book One: Save Yourself by Jeremy Whitley.  I really liked the idea of the princess saving herself from the tower and the "horrible fire breathing dragon".  The images were very well thought out and organized.  Easy to follow.  I actually am a little curious how the story proceeds from where it left off in the first book.  Maybe Kellee can get me on the waiting list. :)

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Lastly I started a book that I have to read for my class I will be taking with Staci.  I didn't get far enough to even really review it yet.  But from the preface I think it will be very interesting.  I will have to fill you in more on it later.

Not to mention that I have many many hours of recorded Olympics to contend with my books.  I have to say that I think I did a fair job balancing them all out.  Which means that Olympics for me aren't over!!

Hope everyones week is great!

What I'm Reading Monday- Emerald Atlas

It is very obvious I have been very busy these last few weeks.  I promise I will share that soon.

But for today's event!

I have been busy listening to books this past week (mostly due to a trip to Key West).  I managed to almost listen to two whole audiobooks!

First, I finished The Emerald Atlas.  I had mentioned how it was much different than the books I had been listening to prior and it took a little while to adjust and get into it.  I must say that I really enjoyed it.  I fell in love with the three children (Kate, Emma, and Michael).  I don't want to give too much away, but I was on the edge of my seat the whole second half of the book.  Their adventure at times looked as though it would not be successful.  I was relieved to know that there are two more books, the only bad thing is that I have no idea how long I will have to wait to hear them!  I think Jon even got into it slightly albeit at the very last disk and a half.

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We immediately started the next audiobook that I had brought with us for the long drive down to the Keys.  It was Airborn by Kenneth Oppel.  I had picked it because of the audiobooks I had it seemed the most Jon friendly.  I was excited because this is my first full cast audiobook!  I have mentioned how some readers aren't able to keep all of the voices sounding different and I knew that a full cast would solve that no problem.  But it did have music at the beginning and that is just something I don't think is necessary.  Jon and I made it to the 8th disk and sadly we arrived home and couldn't sit around and listen to the rest of it.  I think he really got into it because each time I turned it off to ask a question or take a little break he was itching to turn it back on.  :)  Now the only problem is how am  I going to get him to listen to the rest of it...  Oh, yea.  You might want to actually  hear about the book huh?  It is about a boy who works on an airship.  He loves his job and wants to become a sailsman.  A kink is thrown into his plans and he meets a very demanding young girl.  She turns him upside-down in her pursuit of a creature her grandfather claimed to have seen.  I have to say that I thought we had gotten to the part where they would be all clear to go, but nope!  And that is unfortunately where we had to stop. :(

I am still chugging along on this one.  I didn't have much time for reading this weekend since we spent so much time driving around in the car.  She has gotten herself into trouble- big time.  Luckily her cop boyfriend has just showed up and will hopefully set things straight... or handcuff her so she can't go off and get into more trouble.

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Silly me, since I finished Tricks last week I decided to start another book.  Yes, I already have one started (see above) and I insist that I must have a hardback book in addition to my audio and iphone books.  Crazy I know.  I have not gotten very far in Mysterious Skin but so far I am intrigued.  It seems to focus on a few different kids that may or may not be living in the same town.  There is molestation, playgirl magazines, and strippers.  I am not exactly sure the point of the story yet (since I can't remember reading the synopsis).  I'll let you  know more when I learn more.

As for reading, that is all for the week.  As for everything else, that will come later.

Hoping everyone a good week.