Writing and Reading

I'm excited to be starting an internship next week at my local newspaper, The Sea Coast Echo.  This internship is a partnership between our local community college and my school district so that teachers can earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) that go toward their teaching license.  So I'm thrilled to be working where I can WRITE!  So excited.

Other topic:  I'm currently completely engrossed in the book by Susan Beth Pfeiffer, Life As We Knew It.
Set in Pennsylvania, the book is in the form of the diary or journal of teenage Miranda and as it begins she and her family and friends are gearing up for a seemingly benign lunar event, an asteroid is scheduled to hit the moon.  What no one seemed to be prepared for was that the asteroid had far more mass than originally projected.  The moon is knocked out of its current orbit and travels very close to the earth.  This sets off a series of cataclysmic geological and meteorological events that affect every living being on the earth.  We read what Miranda writes as she describes life following the event.  Tsunamis and altered ocean levels drown coastal cities.  People die.  Oil production ceases.  Prices skyrocket.  Volcanoes explode around the globe bathing the earth in toxic darkness.  Temperatures plummet in July and we wonder if Miranda and her family are going to make it.
The writing is simple for the most part.  Occasionally there's a word or phrase that I doubt "Miranda" would know which throws me out of my alternate reality of reading trance.  There's a lot about life that Miranda doesn't describe which has me perplexed because it would definitely be stuff that I would think a teenager would care greatly about.  However, I'm almost finished and I'm thinking about the book when I'm not reading it, wondering what's going to happen.  So that's a great book to me.  I read for several hours straight last night but just couldn't stay awake to finish it off.  Definitely tonight.  It's a good, easy read that I recommend so far.  I'll post more about other great books I've read lately.