WW - Loved it

This was a great pick. I was leary at first. I don't usually read young adult books. I wouldn't have read Twilight if you gals didn't suggest it. That said, if Wednesday Wars had a sequal I'd read it.

All of you have done well with your reviews. Once again I feel at a loss to say anything new. I'll just post my favorite quotes throughout the book.

Holling said it so perfectly about this time of year... I always wish for snow and this is how I will express it from now on:

"It's the kind of month where you're grateful for every single glimpse of the sun, or ay sign of blue sky above the clouds, because you're not sure that they're there anymore. And if you can't have sun or blue sky, then you wish it would snow and cover all the gray world with a sparkling white so bright that your eye can't take it in."

I liked this next quote because it shows how wise Holling is at an early age... not always trusting a surge of happiness, but describing it's bliss so perfectly:

"Life got brighter, and somehow, the world suddenly got brighter, too. You know how this is? Your walking along, and then the sun comes out from behind a cloud, and the birds start to sing, and the air is suddenly warm, and it's like the whole world is happy because you are happy. It's a great feeling. But never trust it..."

And then he remembered the death threats for cream puffs. DANG!

And this bit here describes perfectly of why I don't get up in the morning to exercise or even shower.

"It was cold and a little foggy - the kind of foggy that goes all through you, so that everything feels wet, and the cold starts to seep under your skin, and all you can think about is the warm bed that you left to do this to yourself, and you're wishing you had on your thermal underwear, and you're wondering why anyone would want to do this to themselves..."

This was just deep for a 7th grader. Something to remember.

"For it so falls out, that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why, then we rack the value, then we find the virtue that possession would not show us while it was ours."

That's all Ladies... looking forward to this next read.