To complete my feverish reading for a potential all school-read, I read two more titles. To recap, the books had to fit the criteria below: 1. Under 350 pages. 2. No movie version 3. An appropriate read for grades 7 to 11 (I know. Kind of impossible, right?) 4. Has themes that can be discussedContinue reading “YA Reading Continued…”
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Thoughts on a Complicated Kindness and the Bone Cage
I managed to polish two more books off this week in my quest for just the right book to present to my school reads committee. The first one I’d been meaning to read for a while, the second I thought would be a good fit due to its subject matter. A Complicated Kindness by MiriamContinue reading “Thoughts on a Complicated Kindness and the Bone Cage”
How I loved How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
I am in the middle of a massive Young Adult fiction marathon. The selection process of our 2012 school community reads is in full swing and this time I am obsessed with pushing the best possible books to my committee. Not that I wasn’t before. It is just that the winners for the last coupleContinue reading “How I loved How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff”
Post-Book Completion Grieving: A Review of Grossman’s The Magician King
Does this ever happen to you? You’re reading a book and it is holding your interest, but nothing too mind shattering. Until you get deeper into it and you feel something in yourself slowly changing. Call it a metamorphosis. Or a door opening. Or a blooming in a hitherto unfruitful garden in the mind. ImagineContinue reading “Post-Book Completion Grieving: A Review of Grossman’s The Magician King”
A Trio of Books for Youth
Due to the fact that it takes me a couple of weeks to put together the behemoth monthly book posts, I have decided to break it up a little. Since my last post, I’ve read three good books for youth which, conveniently enough, provide me with a modicum of a theme for my first assay.Continue reading “A Trio of Books for Youth”
November in Books
Books read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel I finished it! It only took me 8 months, but I completed this brick of a book. You must be wondering why it took me so long. Why did I not put it down when I couldn’t get into it? Was it that horrible? And am I suchContinue reading “November in Books”
October in Books
Hello! I’m back! Well, sort of. You will remark that the ratio of books actually read to books simply listened to is a little skewed this month. This peculiar percentage is due to the unfortunate circumstance of not having any time to sit down and read. And when I do have time to sit withContinue reading “October in Books”
September was not in books
We interrupt this regular programming due to the very scary and unprecedented fact that I did not finish any books in September. Nope. Nada. Not one. Okay. I did finish an audio book. Does that count? I attribute this appalling state of affairs to the insanity of the first month of school. Oh and JContinue reading “September was not in books”
Books in Summer: Part II
Okay. Now we have crossed the border between July and August. I am looking at some if these titles and am wondering what I am going to say. But sometimes it feels good to just tap the keys on the keyboard and look like I am saying something important like I am doing now. IContinue reading “Books in Summer: Part II”
Books in Summer: part I
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall This book was handed to me on our first night in Victoria by a couple of good friends. The only book about running that I have ever read is Murakami’s What I talk about when I talk about running and although I run pretty much everyday, I have neverContinue reading “Books in Summer: part I”
Lina Branter 