#FridayReads 7 February, 2014

Happy Friday, guys! Time for another #FridayReads…

This weekend, I’ll be reading Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

Release Date: 2014-02-11

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean.   Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling

Release Date: 1999-07-01

In one of the most hotly anticipated sequel in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left off with Harry’s second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls’ bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone.

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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen

Release Date: 2013-06-04

Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen’s story of growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It’s also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family secrets and government secrets. Her father’s hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what they made at Rocky Flats—best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities.     As this memoir unfolds, it reveals itself as a brilliant work of investigative journalism—a shocking account of the government’s sustained attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic and radioactive waste released by Rocky Flats, and of local residents’ vain attempts to seek justice in court. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book promises to have a very long half-life.Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

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So how bout it, what are YOU reading this weekend?