YRead

I attended the YRead Conference in Carroll Co. this weekend. I don't remember knowing about the first YRead held in 2006 but this is planned to alternate years with Books for the Beast.

The facility was great--nice auditorium, one book group per classroom--not as crowded as it can get at the Roland Park facility.

I chose the Adventure genre because the featured speaker, Terry Trueman, had a book in this group and I wanted to read Peak by Roland Smith. Peak turned out to be my favorite, and I highly recommend the sound recording. Hurricane by Trueman was ok and could easily be recommended to high level J readers. Zane's Trace by Allan Wolf and The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean were challenging in their own ways. I will write more detailed reviews on GoodReads.