CALLING ALL BOOKWORMS! I‘m putting together a semester long project for my 9th grade readers and I would love to share with them what the reading lives of readers looks like! I‘d love to hear how your engage with reading in your life, how reading is social for you, and/or why reading is important to you.

I really liked this book. And I loved the characters. This book captures fandom life and also how real and important and necessary online friends and life can be.

ahhhhhhhh soooooo good

stunning

loving this book so far.

This book is awesome. Cannot stop reading it.

this book is reaching peak "oh shit" levels

this book. already this book...

I read it in one sitting and I can't stop crying.

"Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect."

this is essentially what my grad thesis was about. im loving this book already. joan didion is the very best.

yes yes yes. this was excellent.

Finally reading this...loving it and laughing out loud but also am finding myself really hating the parents at this point. 😳

I kept waiting for this book to stop making me mad but it never did. I'm sure that she deeply cared about these men, and as an English major myself, I understand loving literature, but I just feel like every single chapter in this book was her adventures in privilege and her inability to see her students complexly.

I missed his keynote Wednesday, but I picked up this slender beast from the CUE Gear Store before I left. What a great conference, and what a perfect souvenir. Now, to find some coffee! ☕️

In Palm Springs for the CUE conference, but I'm making time to read on the balcony too. Beautiful morning.

I loved this book. I loved their adorable friendship and the mystery and Jamie's dorky dad. This had many things that were squarely in my wheelhouse, most notably rich kids at boarding school, unaccompanied minors, and characters with complicated pasts.

This is me settling in for a 2-3 hour wait for tire installation. I'm going to try to finish this book.

Joan Didion is how I fell in love with language. So ready for this.

I love established relationships, and this is firmly in that wheelhouse. Loved it. Absolutely beautiful.

"I used to cry over a story and then close the book, and it all would be over. Now everything resonates, sticks like a splinter, festers."

Digging in this morning and loving it so far.

I really loved this book. I feel like I need to read it again to pick up all the things I missed on my way through it, but it was delightful and surprising and about so much of life. She has this very quiet, slow, and deliberate way of turning things over and over until she makes sense of them. It was disruptive and soothing at once. This was my first of her books, but it will not be the last.

"Democracy demands we speak and act outrageously. We can change the world if our view is long and focused with friends drawn lovingly around the place we call home." #iamcrying

this. book.

"I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet - within the chambers of a quivering heart." (my mom taught me that.)

Enjoying my day of with a little quiet morning reading before I do some grading.

On a day that made me feel frustrated, powerless, and invisible, I'm reminded I'm blessed to work with young people. In the face of so many circumstances that I cannot change, I will embrace the opportunities I have each day to do the things I can: I will talk them about the world they want to make. I will invite them to consider the world complexly. I will give them chances to experience the power of their own voices. #iamapublicschoolteacher

Ready for this. #booklove2017

Reading this during SSR. It's our first book for our Parent/Community Book Club. So excited to talk about this book with our school community. #middleschoolenglish #englishteacher

Loved the book. Husband and I are watching the show now. It's pretty good.

Reading Stargirl with my 7th graders and planning a PBL experience to go with it. So excited to get started next week.

I find it difficult not to read more than one book at a time. This one is right in my wheelhouse.

seems appropriate

Sometimes I read kind of terrible books that make me think, "I could do that." This was like that except it's not a terrible book...just an enjoyable exhortation that if you think you've got stories, it's time to get to telling them. I got this as part of a Writer's Toolbox from my husband for Christmas and I think I'm ready to start using those sticky notes now...for my ideas. 10/10 would recommend.

Dude. I wish DNF meant I did not finish but I did finish. I was so pissed from the beginning of this book until the very last page. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to watch Emma Watson in a movie again because I was just picturing her face the whole way through and I hated her...the whole way through. This book had too much soap boxing, too many potentially interesting plot details that never pay off, and a naive heroine. Blah forever.

There isn't a break. Every page makes me so angry. (I can't stop reading but I'm pissed.)

Every second, this book gets weirder and weirder. There is no break from the weird.

Reading this for Book Club. Enjoying it so far.

Back when I lived with my parents and had all my bookshelves in one room. Not pictured: two other book shelves and many more purses.

Comics and some other stuff...and Santa and friends. #funfridayphoto #shelfie

Stretching out the last days of winter break.

This book is excellent. I'm just through the CV section. So so good.

I'm not saying anything groundbreaking when I say that this book is outstanding, heartbreaking, hopeful, and important, but I will join the chorus. Read it today if you haven't yet.

This is happening...because I'm going through withdrawals.

Good questions. As an educator, these are eating me alive.