Books

My Top 10 Reads for Middle-Schoolers

Posted on August 5, 2018January 29, 2020 by Christian Douglass

It's August now, and that means the back to school ads are rolling out. It also means all my teacher friends are busy putting their classrooms together—or more specifically, putting their classroom libraries together. Knowing my lifelong love of books, sometimes they'll ask me when they're needing some ideas on rounding out their collections (and … Continue reading My Top 10 Reads for Middle-Schoolers

Review: Before She Ignites

Posted on July 8, 2018July 8, 2018 by Christian Douglass

Review of Before She Ignites by Jodi Meadows

Odds & Ends 6/11-6/17

Posted on June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 by Christian Douglass

It was back to the routine this week. With my editing completed over vacation (yay!), I took a step back from that project to refresh my brain. To do so, I decided to read Pygmalion since it was left at the bottom of my vacation stack. I don't know about anyone else, but I find the character … Continue reading Odds & Ends 6/11-6/17

Review: Bell Weather

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Christian Douglass

Review of Bell Weather by Dennis Mahoney

My Picks for The Great American Read

Posted on May 27, 2018May 27, 2018 by Christian Douglass

For those of you who missed it, PBS launched their Great American Read project on Tuesday. The project is an effort to find America's most loved novel, with a list of 100 possible candidates chosen from nationwide surveys. The only rules for inclusion on the list were that the novel had to be fiction, had to … Continue reading My Picks for The Great American Read