Lots of new books for the new school year!

I spent a great hour today browsing through our many new books. Here are a few covers. Can't wait to read some more tomorrow and display them for our students to see on Wednesday!

Clicking on each cover should take you to the book's page on Goodreads.com. If you don't have a Goodreads account yet, you should! It's like Facebook but for readers. It has covers, summaries and reviews for every book published in English, and lots published in other languages as well. You invite your friends and they get to see what you are reading, as well as recommend books for you. One of my favorite features is the Goodreads challenge. Every year for the last 3 I have challenged myself to read 365 books. As I count picture books and children's literature in addition to the adult books I read, it's not that hard to reach that number, but right now I'm 28 books behind!! Good thing we have so many great new books.

2016 Reading Challenge

Mrs. Fitzgerald has read 198 books toward her goal of 365 books.

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198 of 365 (54%)

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Note: As I read more and more books, this widget may change. Right now there are 18 wonderful picture books but since CAC has a great book collection, it could change to include different. Moral of the story: Read the blog posts when they arrive!! :-)

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See What I Read in 2015

I've been a member of the readers' social network, Goodreads, for many years now. Every year, I set myself the goal of reading at least 365 books and I use Goodreads to keep track of them. Several of my overseas friends are on Goodreads, and it helps me to feel close to those distant friends through the books that we read.

This year, Goodreads created an infographic of all the books I read in 2015. I love it! It's very motivating to keep reading and logging what I read on the site. Join up. It's free and it's easy.

Here's a screenshot of the top of my infographic. I wish it was downloadable as a pdf. I'd print it out as a poster! At the bottom of this on the page there is a mosaic made from the covers of all the books I read.

Go ahead and join up. Friend me and you'll see all my reviews. I don't often write long reviews but I do give stars to all of the books I read. You might recommend lots of good books to me, so I'm looking forward to seeing you on Goodreads.