Books I Should Have Read in High School
Image via Wikipedia This year, I’m taking on the Books I Should Have Read in High School, But Didn’t challenge Dana is running, and I’m pledging to read six books I feel I should have read, putting me...
View ArticleReview: Back to Blood
The first Tom Wolfe book I ever read was The Bonfire of the Vanities, which I pulled off my grandfather’s bookshelf one December afternoon. I was too young then to see what cutting satire Wolfe...
View ArticleReview: Code Name: Verity
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein My rating: 5 of 5 stars There are lots of aspects of my job to love, but one is always the moment where a student tells me she read a book and really loved it–bonus...
View ArticleReview: An Abundance of Katherines
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green My rating: 4 of 5 stars There’s a lot of charm in An Abundance of Katherines, which is kind of a funny thing to say about a book that includes a hunt for feral...
View ArticleReview: Orphan Train
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline My rating: 3 of 5 stars For seventy-five years, groups like the Children’s Aid Society rounded up impoverished urban children, many immigrants, and put them on...
View ArticleReview: Fin & Lady
In a recent Top Ten Tuesday over at The Broke and the Bookish, the topic was Books To Read If You Like These TV shows, movies, plays etc. What a intriguing challenge, right? But I couldn’t come up with...
View ArticleMy Summer Reading, Part One
As I slowly ease back into blogging after my summer hiatus, my one regret is that I haven’t been keeping track of what I’ve read this summer. That’s been a great habit for me in 2014, between this site...
View ArticleMy Summer Reading, Part Two
Summer reading, part two! We Were Liars: I ordered this for my daughter Sophie, who went through an Agatha Christie and Nancy Drew phase, and this is certainly a thriller with a complicated structure...
View ArticleEnd-of-Summer Reading
I read these books as the summer was winding down and the school was gearing up–not quite summer books, but ones that lingered with me during a busy time of year. The Invisible Woman : How do you write...
View ArticleAround the World Challenge Review: In the Shadow of the Banyan
While it fits well with my around the world reading challenge goals, In the Shadow of the Banyan is also one of the books I chose for myself as a Christmas book this winter; I don’t even remember how I...
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