37 Hours

Hours read/blogging: 31 hours

Number of books read: 13

Number of pages read: 3228

WARNING: I am reviewing series books. While this review contains no spoilers for this book, it probably contains spoilers for previous volumes in this series. It’s the nature of the beast.

Princess in Training Meg Cabot

According to Lana Weinberger, all college boys want is to DO IT. Mia knows she's not ready for that. So not ready, she can't even talk to Michael about it. Plus, Lilly nominated her for student council president and is running her campaign with the help of Grandmere. Grandmere? Well, she might just be trying to deflect attention from the fact that Mia might have committed a small act of eco-terrorism over the summer that might get Genovia kicked out the EU...

Why is Mia always taking relationship advice from Grandmere and now Lana?! Seriously? WHY?! Tina's romance-novel based judgment is much better than theirs!

The ending was... not what I wanted, but realistic. Hopefully, when on Monday, I'll read this post and remind myself I want to post further thoughts on the ending over at the spoiler page. If they're not totally cleared up or negated by the next few books which I'm off to read!

And... those thoughts are here.

Weeding=Bad

I've come to the very sad realization that I will have to weed my personal library. The books are eating the house.

But, does anyone else remember the Drina Books?

Drina is directly responsible for my loathing of weeding my personal library. When we did the great book collection integration after we got married and moved to Michigan, I got rid of a lot of books from my childhood. My thinking was along the lines of (1)I can get it from the library on the off chance I actually want to read this again (2) When I have kids, I'll buy them new, shiny copies.

Who knew that 2 years down the road I'd be flung into the carnival that is Children's Librarianship. And my library has most of the books I threw out.

It does NOT have Drina. Drina, who is the star of the BEST series of ballet books ever. Drina, who is long out of print. Drina, who sells for obscene amounts of money on Ebay, Drina, who is barely even available on my Maryland-wide ILL network. Drina, whom I'm ILLing through SCHOOL.

Well, I'm ILLing the last 6 books of the series that I didn't even know existed when I was a child. I found the first 5 rather cheaply so I bought them. Weeding be damned. I will buy the next 6 too, when (1) I have more $$$ or (2) I can find them for under $20-$50 a copy.

For most of my childhood (and a large portion of my non-childhood) I wanted to name my firstborn daughter Andriana after her and she's so out of print. :( But, the recently republished Ballet Shoes so maybe Drina will come soon? Hopefully?