I am currently reading Need by Carrie Jones. From B&N's website (http://www.bn.com/ )- Zara collects phobias the way other girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. The sequel, Captivate, is already out and it looks good, too!

I have also just downloaded Before I Die by Lauren Oliver to my Nook and will be reading it on vacation next week!

Beautiful, popular Samantha and her three best friends are the ruthless queen bees of their high school. But Samantha is living a nightmare: throughout the book, she relives the day of her death seven times, with some dramatic alterations and revelations depending on her choices- http://www.bn.com/ . There's a cool video intro @ http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Before-I-Fall/Lauren-Oliver/e/9780061726804/?cds2Pid=32024&inframe=y.

You can also checkout this great trailer for Beastly- originally the book Beastly by Alex Flinn- coming this July: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGGOfKS-ZKk

I recently read Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern, which I enjoyed. When Jessie's two best friends turn punk on her, she is forced to discover her nerd-ness and learn to be OK with it- after all, isn't NERD just another label, not good or bad, just an identifyer? Jessie's relationship with her older brother seems a little unrealistic- how many older brothers look up to and are nice to their little sisters? Maybe more than I realize since I was the older sister to a younger brother!

I am currently reading The Maze Runner by James Dashner. I had heard all kinds of good recommendations for this title, but am finding it a little hard to get into- a whole new world, with new language and memory loss which has me scrambling to figure out what's going on. The big plus is that The Maze Runner is the first book I am reading on the Barnes & Noble ereader called The NOOK! http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp In addition to the strangeness of the story, I am experiencing the strangeness of reading a book in digital format on a device that doesn't feel like a book in my hands. I'm still not totally sold on ereaders and ebooks, but it IS kind of cool! The library invested in a Nook, a Kindle (Amazon's ereader) and Sony's Touch Reader so we could familiarize ourselves with this new and currently popular format. If you want to see what it's all about we're offering a ereader roundtable this Thursday at 5:30 pm at the Pitkin County Library- come check it out!