ARC heaven

Yikes!  I jet across the country from New England to California and abandon blogging for more than a week.  With suitcases laden with ARCS (causing both suitcases to inch over the magical 50 lb mark for Southwest), I made the loooong journey from Hartford to Oakland on one of the rainiest stormiest days they've seen in awhile.  A reroute, 4 hours in the Nashville airport, and several books later, I made it.

I've been tackling my stack of ARCS.  Conquered so far:

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn

Juggling Fire by Joanne Bell

Real books:

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (I somehow had never read this?!?!)

The Secret Year by Jennifer Hubbard

I'm still plodding through "Under the Dome" thanks to scary book-induced bad dreams.  Sheesh, what am I, 12?  Anyway, my favorites?  Probably Will Grayson x 2 and Very LeFreak.  I knew I'd like WG since I'm a John Green and David Levithan fan, though I'll have to say, I was blown away by the writing in what I'm assuming at the DL sections.  He had such a knack for getting into that Will Grayson's character and making me totally believe and feel for the guy.  Not having read any Rachel Cohn before (I guess I need to, now), I didn't know what to expect for VLF, but I found the book to really ring true.  Granted, I read it as a bit of a satire -- it's too exaggerated to really feel like the book is very realistic at times, but I still felt like I had a lot in common with Very, a college freshman technology addict who goes to rehab for her addictions.  As I'm waking up every morning, I grab my iPod and check Facebook, Twitter, and email before getting out of bed.  Definitely wasn't doing that a year ago.  Maybe I'm just ramping up?

Okay, time for some ping pong.  Not virtual, the real thing.  I promise.