Bad with Money by Gaby Dunn I am a huge fan of Gaby Dunn’s podcast, Bad with Money. I’ve also been following Dunn’s work since, um, her 100 Interviews project, which she did in 2010-2011 and appears to be removed from the internet, which makes me feel old. Bad with Money was a book I …
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee I did not like this book that much. I read To Kill a Mockingbird when I was a freshman in high school, and I thought it was pretty good. In Go Set a Watchman, Scout/Jean Louise is an adult, living in New York, who comes home to visit …
I picked up Ghost, by Jason Reynolds, in doing research for Creative Writing Club. I’m working on the fiction unit, and looking for a mentor text to have my kids read. In doing this research and preparation, I read the book. This is the first wholly young adult book I’ve read in a while, and …
I read a book! Years ago, this would not have been a noteworthy development in my personal life. As a child, I was a voracious reader, powering through book after book. And then jobs and college and teaching came along, and they took up my time, and I don’t read for pleasure like I used …
Alfons Morales One of the blogging goals I’ve set for 2018 is to publish a book review every month. That means I need to write a book review every month which means I need to read a book every month. (Yep, I learned about backwards planning from TFA.) Here’s a tentative list of books I …
I read this book because I heard someone recommend it, then I found out that it was set in Mississippi. One-click checkout, it arrived a few days later. This is the first novel I’ve read in a while, and the first young adult novel I’ve read in a longer while. Most of the reading I’ve …
I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz lately about The Defining Decade, so I decided to read it. It was…alright. The thing that really bothered me throughout the book was the assumptions that the author made about the things that 20-somethings will want in the future. There’s this idea, that everyone wants to (or should …
I finally read Imagine. Everyone on earth has probably heard of this book. I know I saw it on a couple blogs before a friend recommended it to me, and I finally picked it up. The book fits nicely into the Malcomb Gladwell-esque category of pop-psychology, which I’ve found that I really like. I don’t …
Dale J. Stephens thinks that I should drop out of college. A little over a year ago, I found the UnCollege website, which Stephens started after he dropped out of college after his first semester. Stephens has been unschooled since he was in sixth grade, and he believes that it’s far more effective to …
The concept of going a day without media, whether it be books, music, tv, movies, or the internet, is unimaginable. Media is a huge part of our lives, and the ways we consume and produce it are changing. “Designing Media” focuses on that changing atmosphere. The book is comprised of interviews, divided into sections based …