Long time, no post

Well...it's the end of the summer, and I got -- severely -- out of the habit of posting, didn't I. No good excuses. I've just been doing other stuff. I did continue to read like crazy all summer. Finished The Half Blood Prince. Loved it. I knew Harry and Ginny would end up together!!! The end definitely left a lot of questions to ponder for two years. Worked a bit on my own personal Harry Potter encyclopedia. Yes, a bit fanatical, eh? And too much time on my hands.

Ellie, Alan, and I got into The Series of Unfortunate Events pretty deep this summer. We even infected my dad with the disease while we were out visiting him and the rest of the family in Oregon. He is currently in the middle of Book the Eleventh and wondering when Book the Twelfth is coming out. Mom just put him on the list to get it from the library as soon as they get it. Ellie and I finished The Grim Grotto and are currently trying to discover the name of the Twelfth on the Lemony Snicket website.

Read Good Night, Mr. Tom for Battle of the Books (NC school program) and really enjoyed it! Interesting, harrowing, and heartwarming story of a boy evacuated from London at the beginning of World War II. Hmmm...what else did I read? I revisited The Edge and Straight by Dick Francis, my favorite British mystery writer. Aquamarine was a short, interesting read about a couple of girls who discover a mermaid at the local beach/swim resort. Oh! I also read Howl's Moving Castle by Vivian Van Velde. I wanted to see the movie, too, but I don't know if it's still out. The book was pretty good. A bit long. Not my favorite.

Well, that's all I can think of. I don't know how much I'm going to keep up with this blog. I'm going to start one for my Battle of the Books team at school. And I'll be generally pretty busy with school stuff. I might start a general one for the media center with book news. And I don't know how much anyone is even reading this. I really was just trying it out, to see how these blog things work. Later, dudes.