I have in my possession the infamous book bag. It’s kind of like the traveling pants of my sisters, my mom, my sister’s wife, and I. The bag has two quotes on it: “When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.” (Erasmus) and “My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” (Abraham Lincoln).
There aren’t too many rules to the book bag. Add as many books as you want. Read as many books as you want. Keep it for as long as you want (or until you get tired of being harassed by the other bookees). When the bag cycles back to you, take out your old books and add in some new ones. There is a journal that goes along with it for jotting down your thoughts on your own books or others (or none).
Here is what is in the bag for me to choose from (I’ll probably try and read them all (if I haven’t already read them…I’m looking at you Will Grayson, Will Grayson), even though some of them are *gasp* adult books).
The challenging part for me is to try and include books my twin-not-twin hasn’t already borrowed. Here are the books I will be adding to the bag. I thought Enthralled would be a good one because it’s an anthology of short stories. The other bookees can read whatever stories tickle their fancy and skip the rest. Touching the Surface is by Kimberly Sabatini, who is an awesome person who wrote an awesome book, so of course I want everyone to read that one.
What books have you read lately that you’d like to share with others? Oh, and one last thing. There is still time to enter to win Annika James’ Wanted. Just leave a comment in the post below.
I love this idea–sounds like so much fun! Great titles there, too. I really need to read Touching The Surface here soon!
It is fun…my twin-not-twin came up with the idea a couple of years ago. And, yes, you definitely need to read Touching the Surface.
Neat idea!
Sadly I can’t take credit for it. 🙂
Only read two in your book bag, and so it wouln’t be fair for me to single both (excellent) books out. But if the rest are on par, you’ve got a super-bag!
I’m on my second book (Between Shades of Gray) and it’s fantastic so far.
Woo hoo!!!!! I’m in the bag!!!! That didn’t sound good LOL! Thank you so much!!! I LOVED BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY and I”m reading CODE NAME VERITY now–fabulous! Of course, WG,WG rocks too!
Ha! Well, if “it’s in the bag” that means it’s a sure thing, so that could be good.
What a great idea! I’m reading an ebook copy of Little Women that is supposed to be pretty much the first draft, so it’ll be interesting to see how it differsn from the final.
An early draft of Little Women…that sounds awesome! 🙂
What a fun idea. I loved WG WG and Between Shades of Gray. And I adore Kim Sabatini 🙂 Touching the Surface is on my to-read list.
Thanks, Kai! Kim is great. We roomed together at the SCBWI Poconos conference a few years ago and have been friend ever since. I met David Levithan at a book signing once…would love to meet John Green as well.