I recently finished The Help by Katheryn Stockett. I really enjoyed it. I haven't started another book yet.
I recently finished The Help by Katheryn Stockett. I really enjoyed it. I haven't started another book yet.
I just finished Jane Austen's Persuasion. Hadn't read any Jane since college; enjoyed it!
2007 Trek 5000
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"I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood."
Susan B. Anthony, 1896
Nonfiction: Engaging the Muslim World, by Juan Cole - slowly, since there is a LOT of history to absorb;
Fiction: Island Beneath the Sea, by Isabel Allende
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
Reading the Bible, by James Kugel. It's an in depth look at the old testament from the viewpoint of both the ancient philosophers and modern archeologists/ anthropologists and historians.
Kitchen Chinese, by Ann Mah (fiction, about a Chinese American woman who moves to Beijing). I am quite enjoying it.
I'm working my way through The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene and I love watching Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.
A couple of kid books - the latest in the Sisters Grimm series and Keeper by Kathi Appelt. She won a Newberry Honor for The Underneath, an excellent story, but a little too disturbing for me to do as a read aloud with most classes. Keeper, while thought provoking, is more upbeat.
Yesterday I read The Rider by Tim Krabbe. Being on vacation is grand.I'm teaching a 4/5 combo next year and I've already got my first two novels planned out, which meant rereading both. Yeah, I'm on vacation, but I like planning.
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"Tour de France, the History, the Legend, the Riders" by Graeme Fife.