💙📚 Went to a book fair for remaindered books and got a few for me an a haul for my classroom. (Left are mine) Last month’s chastisement from the overlords that I have innapropriate books made me nervous but I stuck to my guns and bought what I thought the kids would connect with.

April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 19/30 In honor of my spending a week of middle school immersed in Ancient Greece, my quote is from the Iliad by Homer.

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April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 15/30 (I’ve fallen woefully behind on this challenge-went out of town for my anniversary) From A Good Man Is Hard To Find:

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Life update: Due to many snow days, the school I work for is going straight through spring break. In an effort to keep it from being the worst week ever, we’re instituting Ancient Greek Week with toga party. Thus… this morning I taught Euclid’s Postulates to 8th graders while wearing a sheet.

💙📚 #bookchallenge #bookrecommend Posting a book recommendation— Stories of Nikolai Gogol Especially “The Overcoat”

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I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too 💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge Cornucopia By Molly Peacock

April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 8/30 Ralph Waldo Emerson Love this one so much it’s on my classroom door.

April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 7/30 Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms

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April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 5/30 From O Pioneers! By Willa Cather

I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too 💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge Deep Lane By Mark Doty

💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 30: the book you’re reading right now The Sweet Hereafter By Russell Banks

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#queerwriters #poet #poetry #wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity Bit of a work in process I spent time, as a kid, living near remains of the Japanese Internment camp, Manzanar. If you don’t know this ugly bit of US history, it’s worth noting. These days, it’s a Nat’l Historic site.

💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 29: book cover you love Tbh I don’t have a lot of book covers that stand out… I have a slightly beat up version of Emily Dickinson’s poetry that I’ve always liked the ink silhouette on the cover.

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I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too 💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge Arias By Sharon Olds

April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 4/30 Quote from Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami I want a Greek chorus too!

April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 3/30 Quote from Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen Charlotte explaining to Elizabeth why she has accepted Mr. Collin’s proposal.

April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 2/30 missed a couple of days. I’m playing catch up. Quote from Great Expectations By Charles Dickens A description of Miss Havisham near the end.

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April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related. #books #quotes #booksky Day 1/30: From E.M. Forester's A Passage To India A random little scene that has stuck with me, the "untouchable" pulling the fan cord in the court proceedings.

💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 28: Classic novel you haven't read but plan to. Native Son by Richard Wright

I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too 💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge Disaffections By Cesare Pavese

💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 27: Book you read every year. I don't have one of these... I went through the books on the shelves that I do reread... and chose this one Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

#TheWriteWomen #booksky : The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day. You must’ve read it and enjoyed or learned something from it. Day 31: Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen

#alphabeticalTitleChallenge 💙📚 Posting a book recommendation for each letter of the alphabet. I’d love to see others’ recs too! Z - Zami By Audre Lorde Alas, Z. I suppose I'll have to find a new challenge.

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💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 26: biography you think everyone should read. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Tbh, I don’t read many biographies.

I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too 💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge Gwendolyn Brooks

#TheWriteWomen #booksky : The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day. You must’ve read it and enjoyed or learned something from it. Day 30: Wuthering Heights By Emily Brontë I do not like the characters but I am drawn to them and to their world. Few books strike me this way.

#alphabeticalTitleChallenge 💙📚 Posting a book recommendation for each letter of the alphabet. I’d love to see others’ recs too! I couldn’t think of much for y… this Y was definitely memorable. Y - The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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I thought I might post some poetry collections I love. I hope to hear other’s Recs too 💙📚 #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #bookchallenge Jane Hirshfield

#TheWriteWomen #booksky : The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day. It has to be a book you’ve read and one you enjoyed or learned something from. Day 29: hmmm…all of them? By Agatha Christie

#alphabeticalTitleChallenge 💙📚 Posting a book recommendation for each letter of the alphabet. I’d love to see others’ recs too! I cheated a bit and went with a book with X in the title. I don’t think I’ve read anything that started with a X. X - No Exit By Jean-Paul Sartre “Hell is other people”

💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 25: Book villain you actually love. Estella Havisham from Great Expectations

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💙📚 #bookchallenge #30daybookchallenge Day 24: A book collaboration with more than one author. This one was difficult for me, I don’t think I’ve ever read a book like that. I finally came up with the famous forty—the Wizard of Oz series has forty books by six authors.

#alphabeticalTitleChallenge 💙📚 Posting a book recommendation for each letter of the alphabet. I’d love to see others’ recs too! W - Walden By Henry David Thoreau

#TheWriteWomen #booksky : The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day. It has to be a book you’ve read and one you enjoyed or learned something from. Day 28: The Summer Before The Dark By Doris Lessing

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#alphabeticalTitleChallenge 💙📚 Posting a book recommendation for each letter of the alphabet. I’d love to see others’ recs too! V - Vanity Fair By William Makepeace Thackeray