Today a student asked, “Is it cool to get to work with books all day?”
Yeah, it is. My job is really cool.

Cool birthday book for boys. Perhaps for a fifth or sixth birthday.

Figurative language study, similar to Yolen’s Owl Moon. Keep an eye on the illustrations, they are whimsical and figurative as well, which is in contrast to Owl Moon’s realistic illustrations.

"The problem with Gollie," said Bink, "is that it’s either Gollie’s way or the highway."
“My socks and I have chosen the highway.”


It’s like Winnie the Pooh, but fresh.

We need to read this tonight, because we have to take this back to the library tomorrow, I tell Ramona. Oh yeah, she tells me, I bet the librarian is missing it.

I’ve been reading every morning for an hour while I drink coffee, so I’m making my way through this. And I am annoyed by it, which requires me to rethink everything I’ve come to know about myself.

I’m aimless in my reading right now. So I began Pride and Prejudice, the only major Austen book I’ve not read. I should be excited, but I think Downton Abbey might have ruined British lit for me. Tiresome.

#bookselfie. I’m reading “And The Mountains Echoed” for my book group. I think maybe I need to read more Sparks to say for sure, but Khaled Hosseini is the Afghan Nicholas Sparks.
See how I hold a book? My fingers are always numb.