Tag: Literary
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19 Lines from My Notebook
I love a good sentence! Either specifically clear or beautifully poetic, I collect them in my notebook or underline them in books. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do. “I worked so hard for so many years to make my life into something, that it was a surprise to see all the truly…
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Teachers are Influencers
School is in full swing again! It is very cliche, but how did summer go so fast? We had a little over 3 months off, and just like that the mornings are crisp again and fall is just around the corner. This summer Weston and I went to a CLE teacher training to get a…
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A Piece of the World
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline, 2017, 304 pages A Piece of the World is a fictional account of the life of Christina Olsen’s life. Characters, places and events really happened but the inner life, drama and complexities were created from the author’s imagination. The story begins on a July afternoon in…
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50 Books with Mature Protagonists
Children typically like to read books with protagonists a couple years older than they are. This hopefully teaches them something about what life will be like as they grow older. I have been a typical reader most of my life, until one day I noticed that the heroines had gotten stuck somewhere under forty, while…
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Reading Dilemmas
This is an article that Liz and I wrote together awhile back. It still has good bookish information in it. Liz is in regular font and Eva is in italics. At the beginning of 2021 I made the resolution to read only fiction this year. My inspiration came from an article about how to choose…
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michelle Richardson, 2019, historical fiction, 320 pages Cussy Mary Martin’s father wants to see her married and settled before he leaves her an orphan. He has miner’s lung and doesn’t expect to live long. But Cussy has a rare genetic disorder that makes her skin blue, and most of the community think she isn’t…
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The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 2012, literary fiction, 334 pages Victoria Jones spent an isolated childhood in the foster care system. During an interval of relative calm, she learned the meanings of flowers used during Victorian times to convey romantic expression. She finds them more useful in communicating her fears and mistrust of others. Now she is eighteen,…
So She Reads 