Today is the last day of the 'My Own Books' Reading Challenge. My goal was to read at least ten books from my own bookshelves and ...

Top Ten Tuesday: Good movies about the lives of famous authors.  (I tweaked today's topic since I have already done print-to-screen f...

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City Reader .  Share the opening quote from the book. Th e Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's...

Feeling unequipped or not up-to-the-task of reviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 National Book Award winning Between the World and Me , a lette...

Yesterday I finished my personal National Book Award challenge by completing The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. It was a book I knew little abou...

After investigating The National Book Award webpage and I realized how many of these award books I've read and how many I want to read. ...

Top Ten Tuesday:  Literary characters that remind me of me (at least in part)--- 1. Jo March from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott...

I started teaching in the fall of 1980. I was a junior high teacher at the time teaching health and PE. As a college student majoring in ...