Smackdown Books 2021

Ordinary Hazards
We Dream of Space
If These Wings Could Fly
We Are Not Free
The King of Jam Sandwiches
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
The Companion
Punching the Air
Show Me a Sign
Land of the Cranes
Furia
Dragon Hoops
When Stars Are Scattered
Snapdragon
The Radium Girls: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark
American as Paneer Pie
Tune It Out
The Gilded Ones
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Switch

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Scrawl

Add two more votes for Scrawl from Arlene and Donna.

Repeat from Westminister

If you missed my earlier Tweet (one of the few that showed up), I insist that Nothing should win.

ABM Andrew Reports In...

I did not read the third book – due to time, lack of book sharing and well to be honest I probably would have cracked if I had one more thing to do.

Between Nothing and Scrawl it is hands down Scrawl as in my humble opinion –Nothing is not even a book for students (more of an adult book on the form of a young readers novel and really – not that good)

Jasper Place Votes

One vote Nothing, One vote Flash Burnout....do I sound like Jeff Probst?

Twitter - Not Our Friend

Since our tweets did not all carry over I've asked you all for a final post. Here is mine:

Nothing: gripping, stays with you but ultimately I feel it is an adult book. Not because of the violence but in order to understand and reflect on making decisions like that as a child.
Flash Burnout: enjoyable, laugh and cry. I'm totally getting the stupidity isn't a crime t-shirt but more of a high school book
Scrawl: My vote has to go here.....but if I could...When You Reach Me.

Thanks for all your reading and love of reading!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Twitter Update!

Mighty evening to all!

Just doing a quick check in to see if our Twitter feed is working on our blog and it is. I'm glad to see the new tweets are showing up on the right hand side. According to Twitter, "older tweets are temporarily unavailable."

Although, I just did a #mightysmackdown hashtag search on twitter and all tweets with the hashtag have appeared...except for Mona's which I just remembered she posted yesterday.

Mona, we'll catch up tomorrow!

Just a friendly reminder that if you tweet, please remember to have a space before and after the #mightysmackdown hashtag. Otherwise, it will not appear on the search page.

I think that is all for now.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Final Smackdown Haikus

Bamboo People

Important issues

Emotional! Overload!

Just much too earnest


Scrawl

Well, it’s not perfect.

But it tries something diff’rent,

Mostly succeeding.


Always engaging.

The plot becomes wacky, but

Onward, Scrawl, onward!


Brad