If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson is one I read many years ago, back when I’d just started teaching. It’s a Romeo & Juliet retelling in alternating perspectives that is just fabulous. I picked it up again because it’s the first read for Life’s Library Book Club. Woodson is one of my favorite authors … More If You Come Softly | Currently Reading
When I was working on the methodology section of my dissertation, one of the things I did was reread the novels in my study, noting places where I had reactions and interrogating those reactions. About halfway through, I thought it might be interesting if I continued to do this with novels I wasn’t reading for … More Reading in Process: An Introduction
In Click’d, middle schooler Allie wanted to create a game that could win the app building competition Games 4 Good, but she ran into some trouble with the coding and it had some unintended consequences. Here’s Allie’s confession. Also, you should check out Click’d by Tamara Ireland Stone. Great read. View this post on Instagram … More Character Confessions: Allie from Click’d
I commented on someone’s post recently that I’m really bad about taking recommendations from people. That’s primarily because I have this ridiculous reading agenda. What I’ve noticed, lately, is that I’m having a hard time keeping up with my own reading agenda. Usually I can have multiple books going at the same time, but lately … More Managing My Reading Agenda
I’m still trying to nail down what I want to do for my Wednesday posts. I’m thinking that I’ll take the literary Post Secret idea and turn it into Literary Character Confessions, and make it a reader response project I can do with my students. I saw a teacher on Instagram put out a call … More Character Confessions: Mary Addison
This is clearly my favorite reader response to engage in, since I keep doing it. My photos come from Pixabay, and are edited in Canva. Pixabay provides royalty-free photos under the Creative Commons 3.0 license and Canva is an easy-to-use graphic design (lite) website. If you didn’t know already, Post Secret is awesome. People design … More Literary Post Secret | Ghost
Happy Wednesday, readers. One of my favorite books from this year so far was Looking for Group by Rory Harrison. I read it back in May and still haven’t gotten over the awesomeness that is this book. So I thought I’d use it as the subject of today’s reader response. Post Secret is one of … More Literary Post Secret: Looking for Group
Call this a variation on Elite Bookish Singles. If you haven’t heard of Post Secret, it’s a community project where people anonymously mail their secrets on one side of a postcard. One of my friends introduced me to it years ago, and since then, I’ve used the idea as inspiration for reader response projects … More Literary Post Secret
It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these, and I thought it time to bring it back. So here’s today’s Elite Bookish Single. Complete the Twitter poll (click here or scroll down) to submit your answer. Elite Bookish Singles – a nerdy reader’s game. Whose singles ad are we looking at today? … More Elite Bookish Singles [7]
April is National Poetry Month. We’re almost to the end of the month (and I had a little time yesterday), so I thought I’d put together some spine poetry for my own entertainment. No long pontification today. Just some Instagram photos. Have you created any spine poetry for National Poetry Month? I’d love to see … More Spine Poetry | Monday Musings
