I'm on vacation

I am a teacher on vacation. I have two weeks (starting last week) to relax and enjoy my life for the first time since my last vacation. Do not get me wrong, I very much enjoy being a teacher - I love the discussions, the "ah-ha!" moments, and I miss my kids. I love fostering in them a love for reading ... something I intend to work on more next year with my new class of fifth grade scholars. But on this break, I've had to tear my own self away from the TV and focus on reading. And the question that's popped up in my head is ultimately ...

One of my students and I during the Christmas Party 2012

What do I read next? I assume many of my fifth grades (including the one pictured above) would have many great suggestions for me (including The Hunger Games), but I'm going to have to pick from the arrangement of books in my house.

I've delved back into the world of Sookie Stackhouse and her supernatural world (books you've heard me reference on multiple occassions). These books are guilty pleasures and I adore them. I'm just about to start on the ninth book, which will then leave four more books to go before the series ends, with the final book coming out on May 7th of this year. I really do recommend these novels. They're fun, feisty, engaging, frustrating, and you find yourself cheering for the outcast! Always a good time.

But the question is ... after I finish the ninth book, which will probably take me about a day and a half to finish, I have to make a decision. Do I read ... Beautiful Ruins, The Chaperone, Admission, Sharp Objects (another Gillian Flynn novel, the first she's ever written), What Alice Forgot, or Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children?

These are the novels I currently have stacked in my bedroom which doubles as a library of my collected books. I also have a novel I'd like to read, The Devil and Me, but Scott has commandeered that book and he's a slow reader ... by that I mean he takes his time with books, whereas I tend to tear through them like a tornado. If anyone has read any of these, please feel free to let me know what you think. Otherwise I just might have to continue on with Sookie Stackhouse's journey.