hausfrau by jill alexander essbaum I picked up this book on a whim for our trip to Bali . I'm glad I did and read it in about fo...

Rain Reign . Read it.

I can't wait to understand why they broke up.  I'm about halfway through and it's all sort of... theoretical?  Although she end...

Today in a PD session with Kathy Collins (I don't know how to link her, really? Her Twitter feed sort of ends in August last year... I...

Our latest grade 3 read aloud is Flora & Ulysses , the 2014 Newberry winner: We finished up No Talking before our holidays , and t...

A little late to the show on this one, as I tend to shy away from too much critical acclaim (see  here ), but this is one I'm glad I f...

Awhile ago I read this book... for the second time. The story came back to me so quickly; all the feelings that it evokes so clear again, b...

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell This is a love story. It's one of those all-consuming, wishy-washy, confusing, high school l...

When I lived in Korea I read this book: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Something about it totally caught me, and ...

Rather than writing end of year reports like a good teacher should, I read this book last weekend: Every time I sat down I wanted to r...

Man, that Atwood has some imagination. A genetically-engineered super plague... Pigoons, wolvogs, and rakunks... Hushed conspiracies to kil...

When this book was recommended to me several years ago, I knew nothing about it. I was told, "It's about cowboys. Try it." ...