Po(sey) Sessions

Happy Tuesday! It is still summer, and I am still hating it. But I do have a few young adult reads to tell you about! Teen Tuesday is the day we set aside for teen book lovers visit with each other to find out what's being read in the world of young adult literature. You can comment whether you are a participant or not. Visit all the posters at teentuesday.blogspot.com . Last week I finished The Off Season by Catherine Murdock. The Off Season was the sequel to Diary Queen , but for me it is lacking some of the qualities that made me love it so much. DJ has always been a little obsessive, as many of us are, thinking about things in such a way that blows them totally out of proportion. But at the same time there is a humor that comes out o f her obsessiveness. Yet in The Off Season I didn't feel as connected to the humor lying underneath the voice. DJ's obsessing was completely hyperbolic and verging on unrealistic. Her fears were totally realistic in the first book. Man...

Keesha's House , written by Helen Frost, was the 2003 Printz Medal Winner. It is a book of striking and realistic poems that will resonate with many teens. The poems are beautifully written, yet true to the thought process and speech patterns to modern urban life. Each poem has a very interesting and odd method in their line breaks. I sometimes found these breaks to be beautiful in their jarring emotional confusion, but other times they were simply just confusing. Needing to be reread 3 or 4 times to grasp the meaning. But the line breaks were done intentionally and fully explained at the end of the book. This book deals with heavy hitting topics. It tells a story buy allowing the mind to loosely connect the fragments it is given. "Now This Baby" is the first poem in Keesha's House . "Now This Baby" - Stephie My parents still think I'm their little girl. I don't want them to see me getting bigger, bigger every week, almost too big to hide it now. B...

SUMMER! It is too hot and everyone is so busy even though they don't think they will be. I don't ever feel like reading. I just want to vegitate because doing anything that takes anymore energy creates body heat and I DON'T WANT TO FEEL ANY HOTTER. What kind of reading do you enjoy in the summer? Have you been reading anything good lately?