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Ann, your resolution is much more noble than mine! I'm resolving to read the doggone books in my actual (physical) bookcase before I buy more!!! I own a ridiculous amount of books that are still unread. (Or at least buy fewer new books than I am finishing from my bookshelves!)
After such a reading lull, my goal is to read at least one book a month. As someone who once read up to two a week this is a big drop off but you have to take baby steps right?
Angela wrote: "Ann, your resolution is much more noble than mine! I'm resolving to read the doggone books in my actual (physical) bookcase before I buy more!!! I own a ridiculous amount of books that are still un..."I'm with Angela. I must read the books on my bookshelf.
Since I read the Chronicles of Narnia this year I think next year I want to read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Actually, reading lots of Newbery awards is quite practical. I'm a youth librarian, and I am often asked to specifically recommend award-winning titles when classrooms tour the library. I love book-talking, and by the time the last of the five classes in a particular grade have come through all of my tried-and-true Newbery choices have been picked clean off the shelf and I'm left recommending something that I vaguely remember reading when *I* was in the fourth grade, or bluffing my way through a booktalk on a book I haven't read.
Ann wrote: "Actually, reading lots of Newbery awards is quite practical. I'm a youth librarian, and I am often asked to specifically recommend award-winning titles when classrooms tour the library. I love book..."It is a great idea. Actually, that's how I started reading YA again. I read all of the Newbery winners at my library. I'd like to buckle down and do the whole list too at some point.
Angela wrote: "Ann wrote: "Actually, reading lots of Newbery awards is quite practical. I'm a youth librarian, and I am often asked to specifically recommend award-winning titles when classrooms tour the library...."We should start a Newbery discussion here in the Kids Book section. I've looked around on GoodReads, but it doesn't seem that any of the Newbery groups are particularly active, which was a disappointment. I'd been looking forward to joining in some sort of pointed discussion about the various books.
Ann wrote: "Angela wrote: "Ann wrote: "Actually, reading lots of Newbery awards is quite practical. I'm a youth librarian, and I am often asked to specifically recommend award-winning titles when classrooms t..."Ask and you shall receive! http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...
For myself, I want to try to read at least two Newbery books (either winners or honors) a month. At that rate it'll only take me, oh, 20 years or so to read them all!