A Year of Reading

This weekend I posted this piece on Facebook that Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul had shared-- Glorifying White Authors like DiAngelo Erases Decades o...

Over the years, we've written about/reviewed  lots of graphic novels  here at A Year of Reading. When the Cybils were brand new, I chos...

I realized over winter break and then again at spring break that I was not really enjoying my reading life anymore, I had become so committ...

The book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo was recommended to me by a few friends early last spring. I bought it, put it o...

September - May is a frustrating time of year for a teacher to be a reader. Because there is no way to do our jobs within the parameters of...

I'm starting to fall in love with nonfiction. It started years back with a book that looked at history through the lens of the oak tree...

I finished listening to The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach) yesterday. I can't say I wound up loving it -- Harbach makes his characters ...

Brought to you this week by Mary Lee. Let's start with the pile that's on my nightstand. Truth in advertising: ...

Go visit  TEACH MENTOR TEXTS  for the whole round up of  It's Monday, What Are You Reading? posts.   Thanks Jen and Kellee! ...

This week, I realized how much I have missed good adult novels.   Ann Patchett is one of my favorite authors of all time. I read BEL CANTO ...

At the end of my post " Mini Lessons From My Summer Reading ," I said that reading THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET had clar...

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell Random House, 2010 I own it. The audio version, too. We'll spend the first days ...