To Read or Not To Read

No Map Response (4/28/16) I smile at Emily, and she smiles back. "My competition is on Friday, Regs," she says. "I'd like you to be there." "Of course," I say, because I can't remember a summer where I didn't watch my little sister surf. "I'm going to win this year," she says confidently, as if I said I doubted her. She smiles fiercely, and then runs off, probably to go surfing with her friends as practice. I remember watching Emily's first surf competition, summers ago, when she was six and I was twelve. It was the summer she surfed for a recreational league that focused on learning the basics of surfing. Still, she wanted to sign up to be in a competition, even though she'd only practiced on simulated waves with a board so beat up and used that you knew just had to have belonged to seven people before her. Courtney and I sat on a blanket on the sand with a perfect view of Emily when she started to paddle out. Alrea

For the last time, all the books I read fourth quarter, in order from most to least difficult: When We Collided - Emery Lord The Book Thief - Markus Zusak The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky I Was Here - Gayle Forman Love Letters to the Dead - Ava Dellaira The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton The Boy Most Likely To - Huntley Fitzpatrick Let's Get Lost - Adi Alsaid The Crown - Kiera Cass Finale - Becca Fitzpatrick Silence - Becca Fitzpatrick Dreamland - Sarah Dessen An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir Saint Anything - Sarah Dessen The Moon and More - Sarah Dessen I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson Ten Thousand Skies Above You - Claudia Gray A Thousand Pieces of You - Claudia Gray Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen What Happened to Goodbye - Sarah Dessen The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen Black Ice - Becca Fitzpatrick This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen Along for the Ride - Sarah Dessen Crescendo - Becca Fitzpatrick The Anatomical