Sometimes there are small quotes from books, another person's gift of weaving images and metaphors in such a way that sums up exactly what is going on in the readers reality without clinically spelling it out. One of the most poignant novels I've read is The Secret Scripture by Sabastian Barry. It's the type of … Continue reading When We Stop and Blink
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2021-2022 Book Club Titles
I’m interested to know how other people are running book clubs during Covid. Is Zoom the “go to” platform for most? Or is there some other more intimate way to connect with our book people? In September we had the opportunity to host book club in person for the first time in close to two … Continue reading 2021-2022 Book Club Titles
Reflecting on 2020 and setting goals for 2021
Welcome, 2021! Last week I reflected on my year of reading. The titles, the genres, the authors. Around March last year, I had to take the reality of my “COVID mindset” and my inability to focus into consideration and set a milestone much lower than I usually do at 50 books. As an English teacher … Continue reading Reflecting on 2020 and setting goals for 2021
What Was Your First Chapter Book?
Do you remember the very first chapter book you read cover to cover ON YOUR OWN as a little kid? How grown-up you felt. That feeling that you had accomplished something huge, a grand achievement. I signed my first out of the school library when I was in third grade. We returned from the library, … Continue reading What Was Your First Chapter Book?
Little Women
Beware, spoilers abound. I must have been around eleven years old when I first read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. My mother had a collection of classic children’s literature ranging from Black Beauty to Aladdin, Aesop’s Fables, to Little Women. I think I read it in the matter of a day. I loved it. … Continue reading Little Women
Ink And Spine 