Reading deficit

Back in January, I said that I was going to spend less time reading and spend more 'quality' time with real people. Well, for the first few months of the year, I kinda still tried to do both. I kept up a steady average of a book a day. Then April hit. My average went down to a book a week. Sigh. May doesn't look much better. But the sad part is that I'm not seeing my poor neglected friends more (Sorry Peregrine!), I'm simply spending the 'extra' time at work trying to keep from drowning in emails, paperwork and class plans.

I've also been starting and not finishing more books. Am I getting pickier or are the books really that much less interesting?

Here's what I've read or listened to recently that I like:
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork - listened to this YA coming-of-age-while-on-the-autism-spectrum novel on cd. The narrator really captured the calm and careful voice of the protagonist well, but that also meant that I could listen to it on 2x speed and it seemed a normal pace.

If I Stay by Gayle Forman- another audio book. Definitely not appropriate for my middle school kids (PG13 for sure) and made me full-out-sob like a baby while driving, but I still really really enjoyed it. A girl's just gotta cry sometime.

Sugar Plum Ballerinas by Whoopi Goldberg- I tend to be very cautious of the books 'written' by celebrities. I was pleasantly surprised though to find that this Whoopi Goldberg early grade chapter book was sweet, charming, and had a multi-cultural cast without the racial drama that my suburban kids aren't looking for. I'll recommend it to the Ruby and the Booker Boys crowd if I ever see it on the shelf again.

I'm going to Book Expo America soon and will, I'm sure pick up lots more to read, so we'll see how that goes.