It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
For readers of all ages
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly blog hop we host which focuses on sharing what we’re reading. This Kid Lit version of IMWAYR focuses primarily on books marketed for kids and teens, but books for readers of all ages are shared. We love this community and how it offers opportunities to share and recommend books with each other.
The original IMWAYR, with an adult literature focus, was started by Sheila at Book Journeys and is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. The Kid Lit IMWAYR was co-created by Kellee & Jen at Teach Mentor Texts.
We encourage you to write your own post sharing what you’re reading, link up below, leave a comment, and support other IMWAYR bloggers by visiting and commenting on at least three of the other linked blogs.
Happy reading!
Wednesday: Educators’ Guide for Sneaks by Amy Tern
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Kellee
It’s my week off! You can learn more about any of the books I’ve been reading by checking out my read bookshelf on Goodreads.
Ricki
Young Adult
I enjoyed Gail Jarrow’s Spirit Sleuths, which explored the impact of magicians and detectives on ghost hoaxes.
The Pools by e. lockhart is an eery and symbolic novel that explores self-harm with the use of birds. It is a very powerful text, and I found it to be unforgettable.
If you are teaching The Crucible, you absolutely need to read (and include) Joy McCullough’s Suffer a Witch. It is her memoir of sexual assault, and layered within are the stories of the accusations of witches across time and place.
Adult
Because Margaret Atwood is speaking at the NCTE convention this year, I reread The Handmaid’s Tale! I love this book.
Adult Romance
I read the first book in Elsie Silver’s Rose Hill series, and I jumped to the fourth book, Wild Card, because I was getting a book for my birthday. I really liked this book a lot and found myself captivated by the romance! It made me want to do yoga! Elsie Silver is very talented at writing characters.
Joss Richard’s Let’s Kiss and Tell is a sweet romance that was very fun!
I don’t usually read historical romances, but this one was on a GoodReads challenge list. Sophia Benoit’s The Very Definition of Love is about a woman who is making a dictionary of all of the romantic words she doesn’t know. It was a great read.
Count me in for any bookstore romance, and I liked Brittanée Nicole’s Bonfire & Bliss Bookstore a lot!
I Reread These Texts to Teach Them Last Week!
I used Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer in my Banned Books and Censorship class this week, and it fostered a LOT of conversation! The students loved it.
I always start with Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter as an anchor text because it allows for great critical analyses. It is also a widely loved text, so I really enjoy discussing it with students.
We discussed Maria van Lieshout’s Song of Blackbird in one of the book groups, and it was widely appreciated. It gives students a lot to talk about!
Currently reading with my son: Everything’s Not Lost by Frederick Joseph
Sunday: Author Guest Post: “Writing from the Margins” by Romina Garber, Author of Lobizona & Cazadora
Link up below and go check out what everyone else is reading. Please support other bloggers by viewing and commenting on other linked blogs. If you post about your Monday post, tag the post with #IMWAYR!
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I loved Lockhart’s Frankie-Landau Banks, but will have to pass on self-harm with use of birds. Although it is a bit intriguing.
I haven’t read anything by E. Lockhart since We Were Liars – just watched the TV adaptation this summer – excellent! The Pools sounds very powerful.
So exciting you get to hear Margaret Atwood speak! Have you read The Testaments yet? (the sequel to Handmaid’s Tale) I just read it this summer, and it was outstanding!
I loved The Firekeeper’s Daughter but haven’t read the more recent books by that author yet.
Sounds like some great reading for you lately!
Sue
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