Boarding the plane!

After reading several blogs, I have been hesitant about starting my own because I'm not quite sure my life is exciting enough or if my writing has enough oomph. So, here I am starting a blog about travel planning and books. Throughout the next months I will write about planning a major trip to Europe and books I read.

Last night I finished reading the 9th book of the 39 Clues series by Scholastic. The best one so far! Although I am 21, while student teaching last fall I became engrossed by this series because of the action and many different lessons found in the books--geography, problem solving, and math. My mom even became interested after picking up the book and reading a few pages, she'll be starting book one sometime soon!

Currently I am reading a book about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory entitled Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle. I have read several books on this topic, and many better than this one. Not quite 100 pages in, but so far the story is dry and a good bedtime read. It is not often that I stop reading a book, but if by page 100 I am not enjoying it, I stop for awhile and move on to the next story in the stack.  Ashes of Roses  by Mary Jane Auch or Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix was a more heart touching read even though fiction. Triangle is non-fiction and a more in depth discussion of the topic from three years before the actual fire factory fire.