It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

11/16/2015

This weekly chance to add to your reading list is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date.

This past week was parent-teacher conferences, which was great but also exhausting. It also meant (since I teach at the nicest school ever) that we had no school on Friday to give all of us teachers a chance to recover from our 14-hour days. I spent the day reading and sipping hot chocolate in my cozy library. A pretty nice reward for a crazy week! :)

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What I Read Last Week

The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America's Most Famous Residence by Robert Klara (A fascinating read)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (I devoured this one on my day off - and really wished for some lemon cake to devour along with it.)
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (I wasn't sure if I was going to read this one for Nonfiction November, but I am so glad I did. What an incredible person she is.)

What I'm Reading Now

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (I read Huck Finn in high school, but somehow missed this boyhood romp.)
The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays by Oscar Wilde (I finished A Woman of No Importance over the weekend. Just two more plays to go in this collection!)

What's Coming Up Next

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma (Hooray for books about books!)

16 Comments

Mystica link

11/16/2015 07:44:53 am

Enjoy all your books and have a good week.

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

11/22/2015 03:29:27 pm

Thanks, Mystica!

Monica

11/16/2015 07:48:59 am

I too am reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I wish it were done! I'm really not enjoying it much...

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

11/22/2015 03:30:14 pm

It took me awhile to get into it, too. Once it started being more of a single plot than a series of sketches, I found myself enjoying it more.

Jade @ Reading With Jade link

11/16/2015 09:39:39 am

Well your Friday sounds like the most perfect day! Also, I need to read more books about books!

Happy reading!

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

11/22/2015 03:30:33 pm

Books about books are the best!

Kate @ Mom's Radius link

11/16/2015 10:44:49 am

I am reading nothing right now. I finished Winter and The Bronte Plot on Saturday, and I haven't started a new book yet. Well...I am listening to The Rules of Thoughts in my car, so I guess that counts.

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

11/22/2015 03:31:30 pm

That's such a strange feeling to be in between books, isn't it?

Kathryn link

11/16/2015 03:30:39 pm

So pleased you have a school that gives you the Friday in return for all that amazing time and effort for parent/tchr interviews. No matter how well they go they are so draining. Glad you had the lemon cake book if not the lemon cake to relax with!

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

11/22/2015 03:32:18 pm

It's crazy how exhausting parent/teacher conferences are. I had no energy left by the end of the week!

Myra from GatheringBooks link

11/16/2015 11:48:43 pm

I own a copy of The Reading Promise and really look forward to reading that soonest. We had a reading theme on books about books a few years back, I am now thinking that we should do that again for 2016 or perhaps 2017. :)

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

11/22/2015 03:33:03 pm

Books about books are some of my favorites! There's nothing better than reading about what you love. :)

Elizabeth link

11/17/2015 09:42:21 pm

I read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. I can't remember the book, but I think I liked it. :)

I hope you are having a good reading week.

Elizabeth
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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

11/22/2015 03:34:05 pm

I enjoyed The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Most of my book club wasn't so fond of it, but I think that's because they weren't familiar with the genre of magical realism. It is kind of a weird book...