I know, I know: it’s the second Sunday. But I got off this month, but I figured since there were five Sundays, it didn’t really matter.

So, what have my daughters been reading in the last month since school started?

M (this is her last one, since she’s taking off to India — hopefully, if her visa comes through *fingers crossed* — on the 23rd) had stalled out reading the Lumatere Chronicles. She read Finnikin several months back, and loved it with an enormous love, but found Froi to be, well, not Finnikin. But, she picked it back up a week or so ago, and stayed up until 4 a.m. finishing it. And requested I get her Quintana immediately. Of course, I support all book addictions, and I did so.

No word on what she thinks of this one so far.

C has stalled out. She finished City of Bones before we went to see the movie — which was a LOT of fun, by the way. We even forgave their mangling of the ending — but had no interest in continuing the series. She then picked up this one from my stacks:

And was raving about it. But… she’s stalled out on it. Said it turned weird, and she just can’t get the energy to finish it. I told her to bail, but then she can’t count it for the 25 books reading campaign they have at school, so she keeps trying to finish it. Too bad, though: it has such a hilarious premise.

A is in the middle of three different books. She was reading the second Hollow Earth book (having liked the first one), but then decided she wanted to read all the Grimms Fairy Tales. She was reading that one — and enjoying those — but then her fourth grade teacher assigned them a mystery book report, and she picked up a Nancy Drew

and is currently devouring that one. I approve, having read all the Nancy Drew books when I was about her age.

K and Hubby are still getting through the Percy Jackson series, being nearly through The Last Olympian. She’s pressuring him to read her Goblet of Fire next. In addition, she started reading aloud to me every night. I asked her to choose the book, and she pulled this one off the shelves:

Sometimes the words are a little above her ability, but I help her with those. Have I mentioned I love graphic novels for that reason? The pictures offset the more difficult words, so the comprehension is still there. That, and this one is so much fun to read and reread.

An update on my book groups: I’m abandoning the 6-8th grade one; no one seems interested. However, I’m in the planning stages — trying to put together a comprehensive proposal — of setting up a Teen Reader program/advisory board. The idea is that they read the ARCs and report back on them, but I also want it to be slightly more substantial than that, so they can get an idea how publishing and promoting and author events and all that work. It’s still pretty unformed, so I don’t know how fast it’s going to happen. And I need to figure out a way to get boys involved, too. My 3-5th grade group is going strong, though, and we’ve decided to keep it going with the hope of getting it to grow. I’ve got a flyer I need to get out to the elementary school librarians. Crossing my fingers that it works, because I don’t want it to die.