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About Melina

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As a four time participant and the time Cannonball Read failure, I stand before you ready to kick ass, read books and somehow keep my children clean and sign their homework books daily (well that's never going to happen, so let's hope I can at least read 52 books this year). Teacher of 160 seniors, mom of 3 kids/ two dogs, and wife to one pretty great husband. I need a nap and some Calgon (substitute Calgon with rum) so that I can rinse and repeat this insanity on a daily basis.

Melina's Reviews:

Chaos Club Reigns Supreme

January 27, 2017 by Melina Leave a Comment

One of my students recommended Don’t Get Caught to me and said it was pretty great.  I’ll say that it was pretty ok. I enjoyed it well enough but I’m definitely not quite the audience for it anymore. I guarantee that had I read this in high school that I would’ve tried to start my own Chaos Club myself…but now? Not so much.  Here’s some basic plot stuff: Max is pretty much a blend in kind of guy which is kind of good (he doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CBR8, Don't get caught, Kurt Dinan, Melina, prank wars

Sarcastic Kids are Good Kids

January 27, 2017 by Melina Leave a Comment

  My son Tommy and I just finished reading Crimebiters 2 together and it was pretty cute.  I was always partial to Nancy Drew, The Charisma series (girl spies! who are models! and can do cool stuff!) and  (The New) Encyclopedia Brown books (now very old because I am very old) when I was a kid because I have always liked a good mystery.  My son seems to enjoy a good mystery too because he brought this book home from his book fair along with […]

Filed Under: Children's, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: CBR8, Crime Biters, Kids books, Melina, reading with Tommy, Tommy Greenwald

Best Not to Get on Her Bad Side

January 27, 2017 by Melina 1 Comment

So far the year of 2017 has been a dumpster fire for multiple reasons…many of those reasons you can guess, but also because I haven’t been able to find a book that I could lose myself in. It’s my turn for my book club selection and so I was feeling the pressure of trying to find something that ten women might like–no small feat.  I’m glad that when I made my search for “suspenseful books” on the Internet that when I read the blurb about […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CBR8, Melina, Peter Swanson, Suspense, The Kind Worth Killing

I’m a Survivor, I’m Gonna Make it…

January 19, 2017 by Melina 2 Comments

Remember when Survivor first came out and we were all like, “Wow, that’s crazy!” and sooo many people watched it…and now like 789 seasons later, it’s still on and Jeff Probst is still making people do shitty things for a jar of peanut butter? It also makes me think of Destiny’s Child If I were to be on a Survivor-like show, I want to look like them. But I’d probably look like this: Because I totally ripped my arm open trying to help my husband […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr9, Eric T Knight, Melina, watching the end of the world

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