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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We participate in the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (11/30/2020-12/6/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

Everything Else:

Rambling Thoughts: I really need to figure out some way to better prioritize my reading. Lately, the combination of a lot of books coming to my library in very large batches (meaning I get 100+ holds available at once), me trying to read more widely while not letting go of my favorites, and me writing Goodreads reviews (even short ones) for everything I read has been taking a lot of time. This isn’t sustainable long term, and I’m trying to figure out how to better balance my reading and reviewing and the massive piles of books I often have checked out at one time. Twenty-five new picture books a week was feasible–100 new picture books a week isn’t. No answers yet.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Reading by the Numbers:

  • 33 Books Read This Week
    • 17 Books with Diverse Main Character (52%)
    • 12 Books by Diverse Authors (36%)
    • 12 Books by Own Voices Authors (36%) (to the best of my knowledge)

Favorites of the Week:

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (11/23/2020-11/29/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

Everything Else:

Rambling Thoughts: It’s book list season, and I am excited to make my first blog book lists. Check out my 2020 Favorite Storytime Books, and look out for more 2020 Favorites lists later this week.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Reading by the Numbers:

  • 36 Books Read This Week
    • 22 Books with Diverse Main Character (61%)
    • 9 Books by Diverse Authors (25%)
    • 9 Books by Own Voices Authors (25%) (to the best of my knowledge)

Favorites of the Week:

Michala’s Reading

Note: SO I’ve been an extra bad partner and did not load my books the last couple of weeks. I read, I just didn’t upload my books here. Boooo to me. Boooooo. Shame rattle. I’m going back and fixing my horrible ways this week, so the last 2 weeks of “It’s Monday What Are You Reading” will have some updated content and maybe I can actually post one of the articles I’ve written instead of just letting my powerhouse of a partner do all the things.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (11/16/2020-11/22/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

Everything Else:

Rambling Thoughts: Some fun news this week–my name is on the 2023 Caldecott Ballot! What?!? It is an honor to just be on the ballot and a dream to someday be on a Caldecott committee. It feels weird to talk about on here, but it has been a bright spot in the last few months, and I can finally share with the world.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Reading by the Numbers:

  • 27 Books Read This Week
    • 18 Books with Diverse Main Character (67%)
    • 13 Books by Diverse Authors (48%)
    • 12 Books by Own Voices Authors (44%) (to the best of my knowledge)

Favorites of the Week:

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (11/9/2020-11/15/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

First Chapter Books:

Everything Else:

Note: I’m starting to write my favorites of 2020 posts. If you’ve ever spotted my recommendations on Storytime Underground’s Facebook page, you’ll notice that I sometimes struggle to limit these sorts of lists. (There will be multiple. Of course.) I’m thinking that they will go live on Sundays? We will see. I read so much this year, and there are still so many more books in my TBR piles.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Stats for the Week:

  • 29 Books Read This Week
    • 20 Books with Diverse Main Character (69%)
    • 13 Books by Diverse Authors (45%)
    • 12 Books by Own Voices Authors (41%) (to the best of my knowledge)

This week’s reading highlights:

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (11/2/2020-11/8/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

Graphic Novels:

Everything Else:

Note: It was Election Week 2020 combined with a few work and personal deadlines, so reading was low. I downloaded a bunch of exciting picture book eBook ARCS, so maybe I will get to those next week? It depends how many holds came in over the last few days.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Stats for the Week:

  • 16 Books Read This Week
    • 12 Books with Diverse Main Character (75%)
    • 8 Books by Diverse Authors (50%)
    • 7 Books by Own Voices Authors (44%) (to the best of my knowledge)

This week’s reading highlights:

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (10/26/2020-11/01/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

Everything Else:

Note: I got through all of the picture books that came in last week! This feels like such an accomplishment right now.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Stats for the Week:

  • 52 Books Read This Week
    • 27 Books with Diverse Main Character (52%)
    • 13 Books by Diverse Authors (25%)
    • 10 Books by Own Voices Authors (19%) (to the best of my knowledge)

This week’s reading highlights:

Michala’s Reading

Note: It’s that time of year, can you sense a theme in my reads? Although all my Halloween picture books just came in so next week I might be listing a few stragglers that make the cut for good reads.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (10/19/2020-10/25/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

First Chapter Books:

Everything Else:

Note: So…I came back to work last week to over 100 holds. These were just the picture books:

So many books. And another 25 came in yesterday. Now that I write at least brief reviews for each title on Goodreads, these take more time, so even with reading a lot of books this week, I feel like I haven’t made a dent. I always have a big stack of library books, but this feels excessive even for me.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Stats for the Week:

  • 43 Books Read This Week
    • 28 Books with Diverse Main Character (65%)
    • 17 Books by Diverse Authors (40%)
    • 16 Books by Own Voices Authors (37%) (to the best of my knowledge)

This week’s reading highlights:

Michala’s Reading

Note: It’s that time of year, can you sense a theme in my reads? Although all my Halloween picture books just came in so next week I might be listing a few stragglers that make the cut for good reads.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (10/12/2020-10/18/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Note: Lots going on in real life, so much less reading this week. I should be back up to regular-ish reading amounts next week. Still squeezed in some great titles!

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Stats for the Week:

  • 12 Books Read This Week
    • 8 Books with Diverse Main Character (67%)
    • 5 Books by Diverse Authors (42%)
    • 4 Books by Own Voices Authors (33%) (to the best of my knowledge)

This week’s reading highlights:

Michala’s Reading

Note: Alright, so I stepped up my game since Annamarie the super librarian was off this past week. I tried stacking in more Youth books, but as usual when I see them lined up here I feel like did not read all that much. Happy Reading y’al!

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (10/5/2020-10/11/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

Everything Else:

Note: Lots going on in real life. Reading is still happening, though I’m currently just trying to power through the books that have sat on my nightstand or all of the ebooks that are due back essentially tomorrow. Not a great showing on diversity in my reading this week, though the chapter books that I read are all diverse authors and/or own voices, and all three are titles I want to book talk to kids, so I call that a reading win.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Stats for the Week:

  • 29 Books Read This Week
    • 11 Books with Diverse Main Character (38%)
    • 7 Books by Diverse Authors (24%)
    • 6 Books by Own Voices Authors (21%) (to the best of my knowledge)

This week’s reading highlights:

Michala’s Reading

  • Hello, Arnie by Laurie Keller
  • Lost Beast, Found Friend by Josh Trujillo illustrated by Nick Kennedy and Melanie Lapovich
  • Bubble Trouble by Brooke Vitale illustrated by Fabrizzio Petrossi
  • Evie’s Field Day: More Than One Way to Win by Claire Annette Noland illustrated by Alicia Teba
  • In the Garden by Emma Guilani
  • Sharko and Hippo by Elliott Kalan illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi
  • All Year Round: A Book of Season by Amy Pixton illustrated by Carolina Buzio
  • Sherlock Bones and the Natural History Mystery by Renee Treml
  • Dog Diaries: Mission ImPAWsible by James Patterson
  • What If You Could Sniff Like a Shark? by Sandra markle illustrated by Howard McWilliam
  • Alicia Alonso Takes the Stage by Nancy Ohlin illustrated by Josefina Preumayr
  • The Wizenard Series. Season One by Wesley King
  • Not Your American Girl by Madelyn Rosenburg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang
  • Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono translated by Emily Balistrieri illustrated by Yuta Onoda

Note: I will be coming back to link the books later this week. Every time I try to go to Goodreads this past couple of days I get the error message stating there are too many people on the at the moment. Whomp whomp.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

We are joining the blog trend of Monday posts about what we have read during the last week (9/28/2020-10/4/2020).

Annamarie’s Reading

Picture Books & Readers:

Everything Else:

Note: Didn’t read as much this week. I got through my newest stack of picture books and a few longer titles, but my graphic novels and first chapter books are staring at me hopefully from my nightstand.

Make sure to stop by on Tuesdays for short reviews of some of these titles!

Stats for the Week:

  • 25 Books Read This Week
    • 15 Books with Diverse Main Character (60%)
    • 8 Books by Diverse Authors (32%)
    • 8 Books by Own Voices Authors (32%) (to the best of my knowledge)

This week’s reading highlights:

Michala’s Reading

Note: Annamarie and I had planned to take a friends vacation this year, but because Covid that did not come to fruition and I wound up with a LOT of vacation days. So to eat up some of that time, I took this past week off for my birthday and roadtripped home to Chicagoland. I honestly read 1 book, and am probably gonna have to read it again in a few weeks because brain retention during vacation is for naught. But look at some of the fun stuff from this week!

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