THE SECRET LIVES OF TEACHERS, PART 1 May 26, 2008
Posted by Ms. Klemundt in Reading Recommendations.trackback
So what DO teachers do on their summer vacation? Well, for one thing, they read! As part of a Summer Reading Booklet the library compiled, we surveyed staff here at Res about what they were planning to read this summer and we ended up with quite a fascinating list. In fact, our staff are such big readers that we couldn’t fit it all in one post, so we’ll split it up into a few parts. Here’s the first installment:
In her stack of “to read,” Dr. Saccaro has Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell, The Asian Journal by Thomas Merton, Dine Bizaad banahoo’aah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language by Evangeline Yazzie (to learn how to speak Navajo), and China : People, Place, Culture, History from DK Publishing (to learn more about the country where her niece and her husband are missionaries).
Mrs. Yonkus enjoys reading David Baldacci, Jan Karon, Adrianna Trigliani, and James Patterson. She also reads biographies, including books about Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jefferson, and Hemingway. She recommends the Mitford novels by Jan Karon and works by Adrianna Trigliani.
Swapping Res for Hogwarts, Ms. Bernardin plans to re-read all of the Harry Potter books. She also has Elizabeth I, CEO : Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire by Alan Axelrod and a few of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot mysteries on her list.
Mrs. Skiba is taking her Kindle (e-book reader) to St. Louis where she plans to sit on her son’s deck and read Audition by Barbara Walters. She’s also a science fiction nut, especially Star Trek, so books by L.A. Graf and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens are on her reading agenda.
Mr. Longo is planning to read this year’s “One book, One Chicago” selection: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. He will also be reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides, and re-reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Drawing on her eclectic reading tastes, Mrs. Kaye recommends The Beginning of Wisdom : Reading Genesis by Leon Kass, The Dyer’s Hand by W.H. Auden, The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. Abrams, and The Need for Roots by Simone Weil.
Ms. Schneider, finally finished with grad classes, is looking forward to reading for fun! Her list starts with Misfortune by Wesley Stace, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester, and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
Mrs. Carlson envisions herself lying on her hammock in the backyard taking a trip with Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love. In addition, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin is on her list. And she’s planning to finish A New World by Eckhart Tolle and go online with Oprah for a discussion once a week on each chapter. She recommends The Faith Club : A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew : Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner.
Mrs. McGovern plans to read all of the Anita Shreve and Jodi Picoult books she can get her hands on. She also has the ambitious goal of reading every book on Oprah’s Book Club list. She is starting, however, with Goats by Mark Jude Poirier.
Mrs. Pischke is currently reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen which she says is “pretty good.” She recommends The Honk and Holler Opening Soon and Where the Heart Is, both by Billie Lotts.
We’ll post more later this week.
Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!)
Comments»
no comments yet - be the first?