I love The Chocolate Touch it is fun to read and students can not wait to predict what turns into chocolate next. John Midas lets his greed for chocolate get the best of him and in return chocolate betrays him. A fun activity would be to have students decide if they would love to have everything they touched turned into chocolate or if they would hate it. Then the class would be split into two teams and debate the pros and cons of having everything they touched turned into chocolate, supporting their claims using evidence from the text.

Lexile 770L

I read this tale with my daughter as part of her school assignment. We had fun analyzing each chapter and predicting the outcome. While the story is fairly simple and predictable, it's a fun twist on the Midas fable. Young John Midas learns quickly that too much of a good thing can be bad. Once the lesson is learned, everything is righted. 

This book is about a boy named John Midas who would eat nothing but chocolate all the time. Then one day, John finds a strange coin on the sidewalk and uses it to buy a box of chocolate at a mysterious new candy store. Suddenly, everything his lips touch turns to chocolate! It is a delightful story. It was actually first published in 1952. We could talk about the theme that too much of a good thing can be bad. Maybe we could do a fun thing and have chocolate goodies in class.  If money and location were not issues, we could take a trip to a candy store and let the kids get some candy. It has a 4.4 reading level.

I only read about seven books, so not as great a month as I wished it could be.

Thing is that besides my elderly dog moods and the fact that I've passed the last week sick, I haven't had a lot of patience to read.

However I did read an amazing book, The Star Touched Queen, which I think will be favourite book for this year. In fact thanks to it, I have been in a terrible book slump: nothing compares to it.

I did continue reading some series, like the second volume in the Starbound series and two volumes in the Amour Et Chocolat by Laura Florand.

Five Star Rating -  The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (Fantasy) #Arc

Four and a Half rating-

Four Star Rating

Three and a Half Star Rating:

This Shattered World ( Starbound#2), Amy Kauffman and Meagan Spooner; (Ya Romance/ Sci-Fi)

The Chocolate Kiss- Florand, Laura ( Contemporary Romance/Retellings)

Three Stars:

Two and a Half Star Ratings:

. The Chocolate Touch by Laura Florand ( contemporary /Drama)

.Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace ( urban fantasy/Ya)

Tell the Wind And The fire by Sarah Rees Brennan ( Fantasy/ Retellings) #Arc

DNF

Lake of Dreams by Linda Howard ( novella/ paranormal romance) #Arc

Then there's the ones that I should have finished by now, but unfortunately for one reason or another I'm just finding them boring and dull. Honestly, I don't even know how I haven't DNF them by now.

#Currently Reading-

Their Fractured Light ( Starbound #3)- So far I'm not finding this to be on the same level as the first two books.

Gabriel and the Swallows by Esther Dalseno, another book with a great concept, but each time I stop reading it, less is the wish to pick it back up again.

I couldn't make up my mind yesterday evening on what I wanted to read... so I only got around to doing my list this morning.

Here we go:

The Shadow Master - Craig Cormick  - gonna finish it this week, hopefully

The Chocolate Touch - Laura Florand  - my kindle-unlimited read. I shall audiobook it...

Doing It for Love - Cassie Mae  - ARC of the week

Court of Fives - Kate Elliott  - I am looking forward to Elliott's new series!! One of my most anticipated released in 2015 *wish me luck!*

To be honest I think I am being quite brave to try to read all of them this week- as I am ridiculously busy. But I think I'll manage an hour here and there during the week, and then there is the reading time while hanging on airports ect - so doable :D

What are you planning to read this week?