Not being a teacher anymore has been as glorious for my reading life as I’d hoped it would be, and if you’re on the lookout for a few great new reads, me not being a teacher anymore will be glorious for you, too, because I’m here to recommend a whole lotta fabulous books today! These …
Ever since deciding to go “off-book” (or rather, “off-list”) for my reading, I’ve been reading some really GREAT stuff. (Who knew there was such gold to be found OFF of recommended reading lists?!) So, instead of a whole list of books that I’ve just felt so-so about (as in years past), the majority of the …
There are few things I miss about being in school—I don’t miss the homework load (where I’d usually be assigned to read literally around 1,500 pages per WEEK), I don’t miss the critical analysis essays dissecting every last bit of minutiae in whatever text we were studying, and I don’t (usually) miss the pompous, verbose …
I am currently in the middle of a reading revival, and one that I hadn’t even known I’d needed because I hadn’t realized (at least not for a very long time) that anything was lacking or lackluster or generally uninspiring in my reading life before. As I’ve mentioned before (like here and here and here), …
Thanks to the habit I started in November of reading about 40 pages on most days (by reading ten pages of four different books a day), I got a decent number of books finished before the year petered out. I thought I’d pass along a few of my thoughts since I know that many of …
Image via I’ve always believed you can tell a lot about a person by what they read (or what they don’t)–perhaps this is why, when I come into someone’s house or apartment for the first time, I will often poke around their bookshelves a bit if given the opportunity because it makes me feel like …
One great thing about not being pregnant anymore (besides having skinny ankles again) is that reading no longer makes me sick, which means I’ve been doing quite a bit of it. Because I believe in spreading around the wealth of good books, here are a few books I’ve read this year that I’d recommend to …
As I’ve mentioned before, being an English teacher means people automatically assume I’ve read just about every book ever published. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve admitted to someone that I haven’t read something, only to have them say (with a smug little smirk), “What?! I can’t believe YOU haven’t read that. Even …
