The Third Degree - Books My Friends Are Reading

THE THIRD DEGREE

BOOKS MY FRIENDS ARE READING

My real life friends are readers just like me.  When they come over to visit or work on a school project, I always let them choose a book to borrow from my bookshelf.  They call it Melina’s Library.  Of course, I keep my favorites hidden away just for me.  Shhhh, don’t tell anyone. 

I also keep an eye on what the other kids in my classes are reading.  That includes the boys, and some of them are REALLY into books.  Whoever says boys don’t read for fun doesn’t know the boys in my classes.

So, what have my friends and classmates been reading lately?

Beastly (I haven’t read this one)

Emily The Strange

Fallen Series

Forgive My Fins

Hex Hall

How To Survive Middle School

Hunger Games Series

Hush, Hush Series

Maximum Ride Series

My Fair Godmother

Prom and Prejudice

Sequins, Secrets and Silver Linings

The Ghost and The Goth

The Mortal Instruments Series

The Wolves of Mercy Falls Series

From that list, The Hunger Games is BY FAR the most popular.  It’s funny to me because I was reading Mockingjay the day it came out. That was back at the very beginning of the school year and so many of my classmates are just now reading the series.  Friends:  "Hey Melina, have you heard of The Hunger Games?"  Me:  "Umm, yeah."

The next most popular is The Mortal Instruments series.  That reminds me, I need to get a copy of City of Fallen Angels so my friends don’t get ahead of me.  We can’t have that now, can we?

Anyhow, I think it’s fun that How To Survive Middle School is so popular.  We are, in fact, surviving middle school so it’s perfect for us.  It's a boy that I catch reading the Emily the Strange books.  Oh, and a few of my friends decided to read Sequins, Secrets and Silver Linings for their giving-back project in language arts.

I am not the only one with an eReader either. There are a few other eReaders among my friends.  It is just as easy to carry my Kindle in my backpack as a paper book.  In fact, it may be easier because I can bring more than one book on the Kindle without taking up more space.

Are your real life friends readers too?  Do you notice what they are reading?