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It’s the first full day of summer break for me! One of the goals of my Summer Blogging Project is to share more this summer, especially the books I’m reading. Throughout the school year, I have students read a ton of different texts. In order to for them to read, comprehend, and analyze all of…
With another semester of graduate school completed, I felt that it was time to refocus on the first “available” weekend. That weekend just so happened to also be a #25inFive Readathon weekend. The last #25inFive Readathon that I participated in was back in August. This month’s Readathon goal was to beat August’s total. Did I…
During the month of July, I attempted to follow my own advice and read for a suggested twenty minutes a day. I encourage my students to read for that amount of time each day to make consistent progress on their Independent Reading unit – Reading Bingo. This graphic finds itself in every one of my…
True crime and crime fiction are two genres that have exploded in popular culture. I am just as guilty as the next person to be fascinated with the psychology of the killers, thanks to Criminal Minds; the plot surrounding a crime, kudos to Dateline with Lester Holt reruns; and the characters involved as depicted in…
In a Dark, Dark Wood | Ruth Ware 308 pages | 2016 Mystery Thriller, Suspense Fiction ⭐⭐⭐ Quality read, but … From goodreads.com “What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Sometimes the only thing to…