novels
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Nellie Returns
Nellie and the Coven of Barbo is back! After a hiatus of a few weeks to wrap up the school term, I have returned to the regular publication schedule. In today’s chapter, we pick up where we left off: kids have disappeared, other kids are concerned, strange conversations have been overheard, and now two classmates Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Final Week: The Middlesteins
This will be the final installment of this year’s Summer Book Club! I’ve enjoyed this project a lot – both the incentive it gave me to read a lot of books, and the comments from all of you about what you’ve been reading. My intention is to hold a blog book club again next summer. Thanks Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 5: Astonish Me
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. According to the jacket flap, Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me is about “the nature of talent, the choices we Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 3: The Signature of All Things
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. Sometimes I think I just don’t like reading any more. Then I pick up a book like The Continue reading
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How Sexy is Too Sexy?
How much explicit sex is acceptable in a book required for a college class? If students have some say in whether they read the book, does that make a difference? One of my courses includes a list of eight novels about adolescence. Four or five students will read each novel and will work together to Continue reading
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My Top 10 Books of 2012
It’s time again for the list of books that I enjoyed most this year. As always, only some of these books were published in 2012, but they were all a part of my 2012 experience. 1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Each of my top 5 could easily have been #1. In the end, I Continue reading
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My Top 10 Books of 2010
I encourage you all to make your own lists, either in the comments below or on your own blog (please post the link in the comments) because of course I don’t already have enough unread books in my house. Note: These books were not necessarily published in 2010, but they were part of my 2010 Continue reading
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About Me
My job is to teach people to read and write; aside from that, I like to learn things.
Classroom as Microcosm 