Still on the fence about this book, halfway thru, but I sure love reading on my lunch break. #teacherlife

This book is about a future influenced by the Enlightenment, full of political intrigue, and does weird things with gender. In short, I loved it. 5/5 stars

This book was fantastic! A perfect combination of mysteries of the universe, interpersonal intrigue, and awesome ladies figuring things out. If you like classic sci fi, or enjoy thinking about the place where objective science meets intuition, or love vivid descriptions of sensory experiences, or want to have your mind twisted by physics, this is the book for you!

5/5 stars #scifi #tbrtemptation

Couldn't stand the attitude of that last book, so I bailed and am gonna try this out!

I *just* started reading this and am on board with the premise; less so the casual misogyny of only citing men. I want to read who's doing this work *now*! Any suggestions? #education #pedagogy #theory

Starting this today, to make good on my goal to read more books about education this month!

I did pretty well this month! But I'm aiming to read more than *one* education book this month (oops), and some scholarly articles.

To all the many, many people who recommended this to me: thank you. It is AMAZING & I am loving it beyond all reason/expectation! (cc: @Endrilkay )

I'm glad I found out what happens next after Adaptation, but this book didn't thrill me. It split its time between Reese‘s romantic life, and the government conspiracy/who to trust plot, so neither plot was deep or fulfilling. Especially since I really didn't like the romance resolution--solve the love triangle with polyamory because the main character's bi! Even tho there's no suggestion 2 of the 3 want a poly relationship! Overplayed trope. 2/5⛤

Most professors... are especially partial to students that do assigned work with rigor and intellectual enthusiasm. This is a kind of favoritism, but no one is seeking to either eliminate, question, or police it. [on favoritism in the classroom]

I was on the edge of my seat reading this, caught up in disbelief, shock, horror, and a desperate urge to know what would happen. I fell for a couple of the red herrings, too. I wish it had ended differently; less happily-ever-after and more "I lived through a fucked-up situation." 3.5/5 stars

This is everything I love in urban fiction about faeries: adventuresome kids, wild woods, a secret world & secret lives hiding just around the corner. I read it so quickly the first time around I'd forgotten parts, and loved it just as much the second time through. 4.5/5 stars

Really approachable, pretty comprehensive, and a great addition to any middle- or high-school Black History Month curriculum. 4/5 stars.

(This is my #riotgram post today, for #blackhistory: one book of history and 2 classic Black authors--tags in the comments!)

Today's #riotgram worked out nicely, since I had a hold waiting for me at #mylocallibrary that had been brought up from another 'burb's local library. I

Days 2 & 3 for #riotgrams! Day 2 (left) is where I read the most. I have a super comfy couch, and bed, but I do a surprising amount of my reading at the kitchen table. Day 3 (right) is amazing and everyone should read it. It takes scifi first contact tropes--aliens land in the US and meet humans first--and says "how about nope." Instead aliens land in the ocean (much more likely, lbr) outside of Lagos.

I put together this #shelfie for BookRiot's challenge over on instagram, #riotgram, and thought I'd share it here! Top: library books/immediate tbr. Bottom: all our other shelves. Aside from some books at each of our parents' homes we need to go through/downsize, these are all the books my girlfriend and I own!

audiobook Sunday again, apparently! :)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is phenomenally inspiring, for so many more things than I knew before this book. She's had an amazing career, has a ridiculous work ethic, and her straightforward attitude makes you believe you can do the work, too. The book isn't a straight chronology--instead, there are recent or thematic incidents interspersed with the history leading up to each.
5/5 stars.
#24in48 #nonfiction

I work too much this weekend to do the full #24in48, but I'm using this AMAZING audiobook to sneak in some reading... :)

Listening to the first half of this audiobook on a plane beside my girlfriend made me feel lots of sappy, lovey feelings. When I was finishing it today, I was really surprised it got sad! Still processing how I felt about the ending...

I read this book on the flight home from San Francisco today. It was the kind of urban fantasy I love--a magic world hidden just behind each corner waiting to be discovered--but with myths and traditions different from urban fantasy I'd read before. The characters were well-developed and diverse, with a strong focus on family and community (which I love & don't always see in "chosen one"-type stories). Older's prose is lovely, of course. 4.5 stars

Mine on the right, hers on the left. Tagged is the book I'm *probably* gonna read next.

#tbr #savethefloorjoists

A captivating book that ties the long and tumultuous history of teaching to challenges facing the profession--really, facing education--today. I learned so much, and have so many things I want to look into further. Now to make notes out of all those flags before I return it to the library!
4.5/5 stars

I didn't learn about any of these people--or any black education theorists at all--in my teacher-prep program. 🤔😐 Theorists mentioned here: Lisa Delpit & Gloria Ladson Billings. Model teachers: Charlotte Forten & Anna Julia Cooper.

The father's full quote: "I don't know Susan B. Anthony and I suppose I never shall, but she's a woman who is working for a cause, a just cause, and I will not allow my children to listen to any half-baked nincompoop who sneers at her."

So in addition to being a fascinating history of my sometime profession, the writing's amazing! ?

The subtitle of this book is "Tales from a Makeshift Bride," and Knisley means it in more ways than one. She went from being single to engaged overnight--literally, she had never really cared about getting married and she grappled with all the cultural baggage surrounding marriage and weddings. The reflections on social/cultural expectations of brides and the role of queerness and feminism in the whole experience really resonated with me. 4 stars.

The only book I got for Christmas this year, and I'm so excited to read it! (Usually I get at least 3 or 5 books; mine is a bookish family.)

Today is rainy & grey--perfect for a trip to my local library! i picked up a bunch of books about #education and Lucy Knisley's latest. :) Happy reader!

Birthday gift from my parents! This beautiful, huge, collection of LeGuin short stories. 😍 Can't wait to start reading them!

"We're called the Manhattan Project--that's a joke based on a group--"
"I know what the Manhattan Project did," Connie said with cold dignity. "What are you fixing to blow up? Just everything?"
"It's a rib, you see, because that was a turning point when technology became itself a threat.... Cause we're a mobilizing of inknowing resources--mental? We're the first time travelers fasure--not that I'm actually travelling anyplace!"