first 2008 reading list post
I'm off to a slow start this year thanks to the senior research papers, but I've read some really awesome books in this short list. Here goes (and no cut since there are so few of them)...
1. A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
4. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
5. The Scarlet ( Read more... )
1. A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
4. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
5. The Scarlet ( Read more... )
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All Creatures Great and Small is wonderful. I've read the first three, but cannot find the last one (The Lord God Made Them All). Unfortunately, I think that the series takes a nose dive after the first one; the scenes from his first few visits - like that calf birth with the soap that doesn't lather - don't carry out throughout the next two books. But, then again, it's also been a while since I read them :)
Water for Elephants is probably on the top of my 2008 list. I like books that go back and forth in time because of the foreshadowing (we know where they ended up, but not how they got there). I loved the revenge - I don't think I would've liked the book nearly as much if any of the other characters had been the one responsible (not saying too much to keep from spoiling it for your other comment readers ( ... )
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Since I posted that 2008 reading list post I've read: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou,Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess
And I'm in the middle of Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence.
I am pretty close to my students. I teach at a very small school (there are 42 in the graduating class), so it's been easy to get to know them. I've been fishing around the net for something special to do with them.
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