This summer I'm completely incapable of actually finishing anything literary, so I don't have much to update on...but I have been finishing listening to Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens, which I started listening to on my drive home from work in May and simply hadn't finished. If anyone out there in BlogLand can give me some encouragement on that one, I'd appreciate it...the plot is interesting and I'd like to know "who done it," but the writing simply wasn't made for audio...to the point that I've fallen asleep listening to it poolside recently. It doesn't help that I know I have an audio Erdrich book waiting for me on deck.
Upon lots of encouragement, I also finished Ron Clark's The Essential 55, which is a book about making rules for a classroom. I think anyone into education and/or working with kids (including teenagers) would like this book.
On a side note, at least I'm learning one thing this summer regarding my writing: texts must be 160 characters or less in order to count as a single text; thus, my concision is improving exponentially. :)
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