With the onset of another school year starting, I see a trend...I read for book clubs and not for personal selection as time becomes just too full when August approaches...and ends.
Books 1, 2, and 4 were all read for three book clubs...and selection 3 was one I had been reading for some time during the mornings during my Quiet Time.
- Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Footballs Make-or-Break Moment by Carla McClafferty
- Already Home by Susan Mallery
- The Girl's Still Got It by Liz Curtis Higgs
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
All of these, I definitely recommend...all, though, a different genre.
- Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Footballs Make-or-Break Moment by Carla McClafferty - This one is a nonfiction that I read with other teachers across the state as the author joined us for the Arkansas Reading Association Book Club. This one was a bit scary with the facts that surround football...which my students so enjoy and look forward to each week.
- Already Home by Susan Mallery - This one was just a light read for the Paper Chase Book Club (local book store)...where we meet once a month. I just so enjoy meeting with them, unwinding, listening, commenting. Good times.
- The Girl's Still Got It by Liz Curtis Higgs - To celebrate 25 years of writing, author Liz Curtis Higgs is leading an online discussion and chat about one of her books each month. This one took me a while to complete as I read several pages a morning (as I had time) during my Quiet Time. A Bible study of the book of Ruth...I loved it! So good.
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black - A young adult novel, the first in a trilogy, this one goes to the land of fairies and such. Very interesting. I will definitely recommend this one next week to my students who will very much enjoy this series. Now to check out and read the second one!
This past Tuesday, our faculty book club met. While there, one of my peers said that after reading The Handmaid's Tale, she had not read another book, that it turned her off reading. What?!
That saddened me. One, I would never want a book we read in book club to turn someone off reading! That just defeats the purpose! Two, she is an avid reader...and she needs to be reading so she may recommend books to her students, also.
I immediately began book talking books...especially The Cruel Prince...and our next read The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer to her! I am a reader on a mission! Definitely!
On Monday evening, the ARA Book Club begins a discussion of Penny Kittle's and Kelly Gallagher's new 180 Days. Now...to finish chapters 1-2 and write the discussion questions! Much to do in the land of reading!
What are you reading good?
