books

November 15, 2012 2

War and Peace. The Great Gatsby. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Now, there’s a new great American [...]

June 6, 2012 0

I’m back with part two of my summer reading list. (If you missed part one, you can read it [...]

June 5, 2012 4

As an English teacher I am constantly reading something whether it’s a student’s poorly written [...]

March 28, 2012 4

I try to be a happy black feminist. I really do. But people keep insisting on making me an angry one. Lots of [...]

March 24, 2012 2

Since I’ve spent months counting down the days until the premiere of The Hunger Games movie it’s [...]

March 6, 2012 2

As my closest friends (and my students) know, I’m a major Hunger Games geek. I’ve been counting [...]

August 12, 2011 6

I wrote the headline for this post before I saw the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s powerful [...]

September 9, 2010 3

There’s a part in Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat Pray Love (and in the film adaptation of the book) [...]

August 24, 2010 3

This is not a movie review. If you have yet to see the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, [...]

July 23, 2010 2

I have a confession. I love young adult literature. I could lie and say I read it because of my job, but I [...]

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