Today, I’m linking up with Top Ten Tuesday and A Month of Favorites to share 10 reading goals for 2015. 1. Read without numbers. 2014 was the first year I’ve ever quantified my reading goals, and it was an interesting experiment. I didn’t make all the numbers, but knowing that I had specific targets for different kinds…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from The Broke and Bookish: the bookish bucket list. 1. Complete some oeuvres. Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot come to mind as authors I’m close to “finishing” but haven’t quite. Each of these authors still has two or three (or in the case of Dickens, five…
In Book Love, my favorite professional development read of the 2012, Penny Kittle writes of the importance of setting goals for ourselves as readers. Readers, she points out, have plans. That’s one thing that sets readers apart from non-readers. I require my students to read a lot in addition to the course required reading, and…
the dirigible plum 