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4th Quarter Independent Reading Reflection

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 Shape of a Heart - Jenn Bennett
Just Listen - Sarah Dessen
Gone Too Far - Natalie D. Richards
Until Friday Night - Abbi Glines
Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
The Summer After You and Me - Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
Keeping the Moon - Sarah Dessen
That Summer - Sarah Dessen
My Life with the Walter Boys - Ali Novak
The Start of Me and You - Emery Lord
My Life Next Door - Huntley Fitzpatrick
The Heartbreakers - Ali Novak
First & Then - Emma Mills
The Weight of Feathers - Anna-Marie McLemore
Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen
The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour

My goals were simple, sure: to read the five Sarah Dessen books that I hadn't yet read, and then read ten books that I really wanted to read. Those books were . . .

The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
I Was Here - Gayle Forman
Saint Anything - Sarah Dessen
Gone Too Far - Natalie D. Richards
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Moon and More - Sarah Dessen
Love Letters to the Dead - Ava Dellaira
The Start of Me and You - Emery Lord
The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
Black Ice - Becca Fitzpatrick
The Summer After You and Me - Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen
Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour
The Weight of Feathers - Anna-Marie McLemore
Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen

 . . . and I succeeded in reading all of these, and then some. I met (exceeded, I guess, too) them because I, well, I did my homework, and read them. Simple.

I don't think I have to worry about my reading too much. I have a whole list of the books I want to read, but I want to do "author studies". I read all the Sarah Dessen books in order, and I tried to evaluate what worked, what didn't and what varied as she went on. I want to do that, but with more authors.
I guess that's really it. Cool.
Bye, and have a great summer!
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