“The
Raven Boys” by Maggie Stiefvater. I was totally taken in by
this one.
So, the boys at the core of the story are like the boy-band thing
that Scott Westerfeld talked about. One of the boys was kind of being given
short shrift, I thought. I was even kind of wondering why he was there. And
then…!
“The
Dream Thieves” by Maggie Stiefvater. I was about 120 pages from
the end of The Raven Boys and it was Friday evening. I knew it wasn’t going to
wrap things up properly so I left the house in a panic to get to the library
whose website said it was “in”. I couldn’t find it on the shelves. I asked the
librarian. The outing ended with the security guard escorting us both out of
the building at closing. D’oh. So I went to the bookstore and bought it. It was
a learning experience, though. Now I know who’s in charge of the library
(security). And also, the library has way better customer service than the
bookstore.
This book took me a bit longer to read than the first one, but I
got to about halfway through and just finished it. She really does a fantastic
job with endings, both with this book and the previous one, making me
absolutely need the next one RIGHT NOW.
“The
17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork” by John Maxwell. I
was given this book from work. It was about how I expected.