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Book Review: Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King
A few months ago, I wrote a post for the It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? meme, and I seemed a little grumpy. I guess I was in a funk over what I perceived as general bad quality in the YA books I...
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Fantasy Hybrids, If That’s a Thing
I’ve been reading several different novels and works of nonfiction since my last update, but I wanted to share just a few of my reads from the last few weeks. Chime by Franny Billingsley This book was...
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Summer Reading 2014: Young Adult
This summer has been filled with meeting lots of great writing teachers, home projects, visiting with family, and many, many trips to the library. I’ve read so many great books this summer, but I...
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Summer Reading 2014: Books for Well-Being
Over the past months, as part of my mid-career self-reflection and as part of my refusal to fall prey to the rampant negativity in education, I’ve been doing a bit of reading about happiness. I’ve...
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Books for Well-Being, Part 2
As I’ve begun the school year and all the hectic details that involves, I find myself drawing from a few books that have been good for my soul. I did quite a bit of reading in the realm of...
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Books for Inspiring Greatness
This summer I tore through quite a bit of nonfiction. These are a few of the books that inspired me to be as awesome as possible at my work and at any other endeavor to which I commit. Start: Escape...
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Books for Inspiring Greatness, Part 2
As we reach the darkening days of November, I reach for books I read in the sunny days of July to keep me going until the holiday breaks. Last week I shared a couple of inspirational books that I’m...
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? YA for Thanksgiving Break
In the midst of finishing up grades (I promise I didn’t spend too much time on this), working on some crafts for Christmas gifts, and writing, I did manage to finish two new YA books over the break....
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Books I Have Read This School Year (and would actually recommend): Fiction
This school year I read 44 books (in addition to the literature that I normally teach). However, I’m not going to list them all here because, you know, some of them are just okay, and some I just...
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Books I Have Read This School Year (and would actually recommend): Nonfiction
Continuing with my recommendations from books read this school year, here are some of the nonfiction titles I enjoyed: Tiger, Meet My Sister. . . . and Other Things I Probably Shouldn’t Have Said by...
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Summer Reading, 2015: Fiction
One of the great joys of summer is reading anything and everything. Just kidding. I do that all year long. Here are the fiction works I have read so far: Classic Literature Heart of Darkness by Joseph...
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Books Read Fall 2015: Fiction Edition
So far, this has been a semester of attacking the TBR pile. Here are the works of fiction I’ve finished since school began in August: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: Dystopian fiction has been all...
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