My students seem to be slightly obsessed with all the e-reader options available today–they’ve asked permission to bring everything from Kindles to Nooks to iPhones to read in class, and they’ve repeatedly asked me for months to tell them yet again how to cite page numbers off of an e-book. While I can see the …
The 100 Most-Recommended Classics
When I was a high school senior, my AP Lit teacher gave us several book lists at the beginning of the year to help us become more well-read. I set a goal then and there that I was going to read every single work listed on the “100 Most-Often-Recommended” list (list taken from here). I …
50 Book Challenge
I’ve been a proud member of shelfari since 2007, which is how I came across the idea of “The 50 Book Challenge.” This year I grew a bit tired at the idea of setting a million resolutions that I usually just forgot about anyway, so I decided to have a little bit of fun this …