A few weekends ago, I was in the middle of recovering from a bad virus. I’d been stuck at home, feeling miserable, for several days. I’d watched hours and hours of Gossip Girl on Netflix, and my brain was feeling sluggish and spongey. I couldn’t take another minute in front of the idiot box. That […]
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How I Choose Books
Last weekend I was out with my friend at a local bookstore and she asked me, “How do you choose what books to read?” It’s a great question, because there are so many books out there that interest me, but even if I read all day and all night (what a great job that would be!) […]
Lies My Teacher Told Me
In honor of the first week of school, here’s a nonfiction favorite of mine, James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. While the title is a great hook (and feeds into the popular teachers-as-villains theme this country is enjoying right now) it’s not really framed around teachers. Instead, […]
The Gender Divide
UPDATE 9/5/11 on The Gender Divide- Thank you so much for all the suggestions. I just finished requesting library books! I do want to add a few favorite male authors that I hadn’t been thinking about at the time of this post: Ken Follett (best known for The Pillars of the Earth, but I prefer […]