It's Monday! What are you reading?

I'm beginning my New Year by reading new-to-me books!

I confess--this book has been sitting on my review pile for THREE years! The Infinity Ring series is from the publishers of The 39 Clues series--very popular in our school library--so I thought it was time to dust this one off and read it.  If you haven't read either series, a detail of note is that each book is written by a different, well-acclaimed author who continues the storyline--which is why the books are housed in a special section on our shelves, so that they don't end up scattered throughout the fiction section.

The two series are different genres with similar details.  The 39 Clues stories are the adventures of siblings Amy and Dan Cahill as they try to solve the mystery of their family secret.  The Infinity Ring series is a scifi adventure; Dak and Sera and Riq travel through time to heal breaks in history.  Both series include factual historical events.

Eternity is Book Eight of the Infinity Ring.  The author--Matt de la Peña--is known in our library for the Newbery Award-winning Last Stop on Market Street, and the recently published Love.  I haven't read the first seven books, so I was lost for a moment--but quickly caught up.  Dak and Sera have been on their own since Riq decided to stay with Alexander the Great and patch things up in that timeline.  But when Sera's parents disappear, and Dak spies a pterosaur hanging out in a tree, they realize that something is amiss in history, and start bouncing around time trying to figure out what is going on.  Is the evil SQ behind the recent breaks?  Travels to  ancient China, Greece, and the 1960s space program sites may hold the answers.

The Infinity Ring series will appeal to readers of The 39 Clues, as well as fans of historical fiction.  I think my readers of The Magic Tree House books can grow into The Infinity Ring; best to start at Book One!

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It's January, and I'm still working on setting goals for 2018 and figuring out how to implement them.  I'm hoping The Miracle Morning:  The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8AM, by Hal Elrod, may be a good start.  The book had such great reviews that I also purchased the college student edition for my son!  The book is short--only 180 pages--so I'm hoping to finish it today and have my first "Miracle Morning" tomorrow!

It's Monday!  What books are you reading to start off the New Year?