THE SECRET LIVES OF TEACHERS, PART 3 May 29, 2008
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Here’s the last of our reading ideas from the Res staff. If you missed them, read Part 1 and Part 2. Feel free to let us know what you’re reading this summer.
Though he fears students will find his choices “boring,” Mr. Lascon is planning to read The First Crusade : A New History by Thomas Asbridge, The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton, The Apostles by Pope Benedict XVI, and 1453 : The Holy War for Constantinople by Roger Crowly. He recommends Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, and any book by Mitch Albom.
Mrs. Roy has a number of mysteries on her list, including Careless in Red by Elizabeth George, Dead Run by P.J. Tracy, books from the Kathryn Swinbrook series by C.L. Grace and the Magdalene La Batarde series by Roberta Gellis, both of which are set in the Middle Ages. She’s also planning to read The Worst Hard Time : The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Tim Egan and I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak. (Read more about these books in Mrs. Roy’s post on the Res Library blog.) And she also wants to read the 8 months of National Geographic that have piled up on her coffee table!
Mr. Mallen awaits the new edition of the NCAA Football Rules and the CCA Officials Mechanics (you need to ask him for an explanation of this one). Anticipation of exciting rules changes has him all atwitter.
Indulging her love of history, Ms. Lenihan will be reading Basilica : The Splendor and the Scandal : Building St. Peter’s by R.A. Scotti and The Intellectual Devotional : American History by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim. She will also try to fit in some of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot mysteries. If you like historical fiction or mysteries, she says The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher : A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale has received great reviews. If you’re not historically-inclined, she recommends Tim Gunn : A Guide to Quality, Taste, and Style by Tim Gunn and Kate Moloney.
Mrs. McMahon is going to read The Shop on Blossom Street and A Good Yarn, both by Debbie Macomber. Earlier this year she read Back on Blossom Street and decided she wanted to read the two earlier books with the same theme.
Mrs. Elliott likes the adrenaline rush from the scary stuff, so she recommends Stephen King and Robin Cook.
While she’s trusting to serendipity to provide her own summer reading, Sr. Berchmans recommends The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett, and the Jan Karon Mitford novels.
Even if you’re not taking her “Understanding and Experiencing Disabilities” course next year, Ms. Riggs recommends George and Sam : Two Boys, One Family, and Autism by Charlotte Moore. She says it’s a fascinating look at autism.
Ms. Boe will be spending most of her summer reading time on what she calls “mind candy” – fun, quick reads in fantasy, mystery and even an occasional romance! She’s going to start, however, with inspiration in Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin. It’s a short but true story about a doctor who used the Islamic tradition of the third cup of tea making you “family” to build schools in Afghanistan. Then on to some of that “mind candy”. Living in Chicago, she recommends you try the Jim Butcher series about a wizard named Harry Dresden who lives in Chicago. Great fun! Julia Quinn is her pick for a Regency period romance with “real women.” She figures she has to read something vaguely historical, so she’s picked an alternative history: One Thousand White Women: Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus. When the Cherokees realized they were going to lose to the whites, they proposed something native Americans had always done to create peace – marry your enemy. A letter to the President didn’t get the 1000 white wives the Cherokees had requested, but this novel pretends that the white women did go West.
Mrs. Giustino highly recommends This I Believe : The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, collected essays originally heard on NPR. She plans to read Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
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