Welcome to Litsy!

Not sure if this is a book-about-books, a memoir-in-books, an educational guide, or what. I don‘t think the author knows either. It‘s a look at three high schools‘ English classrooms (one each) in the 2010s and how the students grew through their readings, but also about the author‘s feelings about the teachers and readings and students. It was ok, but I‘m glad I got it free.

“When she finished reading The Handmaid‘s Tale, however, she flew into a rage and threw it across the room. She was disappointed in the ending. Which meant she was definitely a reader. People who don‘t give a damn drop books on a table. People who are excited and then disappointed throw them across the room.”

Yes to this description of a reader. And also, yes to this reaction the The Handmaid‘s Tale‘s ending.

OMG I laughed too hard at this!

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I was planning on grading summer reading quizzes but then I stumbled on an indie bookstore 📚 #priorities #teachersoflitsy

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Even w/out audio probs, this wasn't a pick. The author takes weird tangents, i.e., an excruciating passage about how a teacher who died mid year was a failure. Had nothing to do with book's thesis, so that part felt especially cruel. Additionally, almost every woman was objectified in their introductions to us. Finally, author was very condescending, so the above sentence in the afterword is clearly not his actual belief. Bummer.

IT JUMPED AGAIN. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

UGH. I'm struggling with this one because the author's tone is really condescending. On top of that, the audiobook has some weird pronunciation situations as well as a narrator who never changes his voice when he reads what people said, so you never know who's talking. On top of THAT, I was SO CONFUSED by a chapter only to just now find out that either Overdrive or the production team made the book jump from p 149 to 178, then back to 149 😡😡😡😡

Just over halfway through. I'm a little disturbed by the tone as well as by the criteria that appears to make up a "good" book. I'm still interested and will keep going for sure, but I am a bit troubled.

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If there's a book in the room, she'll find it. 📖#raisingreaders

#TBRtemptation post! Today's younger generations enjoy tv, video games, social media, etc., & view reading as work and a chore. DD wanted to know if they could be turned on to serious reading. Also, which teaching methods and books encountered would do the trick? He went to schools in NYC, Westchester, & New Haven. He relates classroom dramas around The Scarlet Letter, 1984, Notes From Underground, etc. Inspiring! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

We are producing more college graduate skilled in STEM than the economy can absorb. At the same time employers have said they want to hire people with a good liberal arts education, people who can think, judge and express themselves; they want people who can follow complicated instructions, talk in a meeting, understand fellow workers. They can always buy robots.