With all the crazy involved with our move, I feel very discombobulated without all my books! Excited to get some new reads to help center and relax me!!
I read for the Iowa Teen Award, which pares the 150 student-nominated, recently published books down to 15 in several genres. In May, I get the list of 40 middle school books to read and rate as many as I can for the 2027-28 school year. I challenge myself to read them all, of course. It’s great because I am forced out of my routine book habits toward good books that I wouldn’t have looked at otherwise. I just finished my second romance from the list and moving on to a lighthearted family trip seen through the eyes of a sixth grader.
I just finished _The Things We Never Say_ for the second time & noticed foreshadowing I hadn’t seen on my first read to get ready for Katie Couric Book Club on Tuesday when she interviews Elizabeth Strout. The premise of the book makes me think of countless things I never say & many thjngs I shouldn’t have said. It’s my new favorite Elizabeth Strout book!
With all the crazy involved with our move, I feel very discombobulated without all my books! Excited to get some new reads to help center and relax me!!
I read for the Iowa Teen Award, which pares the 150 student-nominated, recently published books down to 15 in several genres. In May, I get the list of 40 middle school books to read and rate as many as I can for the 2027-28 school year. I challenge myself to read them all, of course. It’s great because I am forced out of my routine book habits toward good books that I wouldn’t have looked at otherwise. I just finished my second romance from the list and moving on to a lighthearted family trip seen through the eyes of a sixth grader.
Can you provide a list of the book titles that are on your summer reading list?
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Hi Brian! Happy to share my list. I’m not very good at sticking with it. I often get distracted by other books. But it’s good to have possibilities!
Yesteryear by Carl Claire Burke
My Mother’s Daughter by Tracy Clark-Flory
The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
Ordinary Time by Annie B. Jones
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Wreck by Catherine Newman
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
Mass Mothering by Sarah Bruni
Endling by Maria Reva
Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene by Lorraine Boissoneault
A Mask the Color of the Sky by Bassem Khandaqji
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays by Nicole Graev Lipson
Simply More by Cynthia Erivo
The Witch by Marie Ndiaye
Us Fools by Nora Lange
Craft and Conscience: How to Write about Social Issues by Kavita Das
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit
Whistler by Ann Patchett
Woodworking by Emily St James
I just finished _The Things We Never Say_ for the second time & noticed foreshadowing I hadn’t seen on my first read to get ready for Katie Couric Book Club on Tuesday when she interviews Elizabeth Strout. The premise of the book makes me think of countless things I never say & many thjngs I shouldn’t have said. It’s my new favorite Elizabeth Strout book!
I’m trying to cull my bookshelves that are too full so I’ll try to find some of your titles on Libby or at the library. But your list is tempting. 😖🤭🫶