I am almost done with Letters From Stephan: Stories from the First Solo Walk Around the World. It’s really cool. A journalist decided to walk around the world, and he sent letters back to several magazine’s chronicling his adventures. This is the book form of all those letters. You get a really good feel for the cultures when you’re walking through their land. Add in a few near death experiences with bandits, obnoxious foreign consuls, and walks through occupied territories, and you get excitement as well as interesting tidbits about other cultures. It’s really interesting, I highly recommend it.

I’m reading The Myth of the Robber Barons. It’s really good.

It’s snow season and we got a snow storm today! That’s both exciting and not, exciting in that everything is so pretty now, not exciting in that I had to shovel our driveway. Though we were rewarded with hot chocolate, so that makes shoveling mostly worth it.

I am trying to finish Andrew Jackson and the American People, by Albert Marrin. It is an interlibrary loan book that was due back in December, so I really need to finish it and return it.

Those are good. I like chocolate chip oatmeal.

Hi Katie! Welcome to Incredibooks.

The read-a-thon is a contest that happens every summer. We see who can read the most pages. The old read-a-thon thread is further down the page. It’s called read-a-thon page count or something like that. It’ll give you an idea of how it works.

The forum gets pretty lively in the summer, no school work, just reading time. Unfortunately, right now most people are engaged in school and other such things, but there are people on here. They do exist, I can promise you that. They’re just in hibernation right now.