May
28
Poll: What Are Your Summer Reading Plans?
For many of us, this weekend marks the kick off to summer. Pools start to open. School is either counting down to vacation or has already arrived.
For many of us, summer isn’t just about keeping cool or making plans to travel or getting ready for next school year.
It’s about having extra time to read the books that you’ve had on your TBR.
It’s about enjoying that cup of coffee and the peace and quiet of your kids sleeping in and turning pages uninterrupted.
But what’s on that TBR stack? Where are you starting? What are you most excited to read?
Share your reading plans with us!
Nerdy Book Club 
Texas Lone Star and Tayshas lists along with Shift This and Disrupting Thinking. Also, any new ARC’s or other new books from nErDcampMI!
This will be my second year participating in Bookaday. We still have another month of school. My reading plans include many middle grade novels such as Jumbies & Full of Beans. On my YA TBR I have Scythe, Carve the Mark, A Study in Charlotte, The Red Queen, A King’s Cage for starters. I will squeeze in some adult contemporary fiction, mystery, fantasy& romance as well.
I read Scythe a month ago and it is one of my favourite books! I’m reading King’s Cage right now and it’s a weak link in the series. A Study in Charlotte is FANTASTIC!!!
All the Light We Cannot See is my new paperback 🙂 I may re-read The Odyssey next, Fagles translation. My Goodreads list is long!
You will not be disappointed with All the Light We Cannot See. While it is true that I have a strong interest in WW II and a passion for Holocaust education, what I enjoyed even more about the book were the engaging characters and the beautiful story-telling. It is bound to touch your heart.
Bluebonnet list in June, the entire Unfortunte Events series in July and picture books in August!
I’ve got quite a schedule coming up, tho’ I’m trying to leave myself some room for nature photography, trips to the zoo, etc. I’ve been using my Google Calendar to plan out some reading tho to catch up on some of my TBR that have been lounging on my list forever and a day. I’m planning on catching up on some back NetGalley titles, plus some banned books for my 2017 reading challenges.
On top of that, the library I work for has a *HUGE* Summer game that includes scavenger hunts in the online catalog, scavenger hunts at local parks, hidden codes in our buildings and all sorts of other fun stuff. That’ll take up quite a bit of my summer too. 🙂
Trevor Noah’s memoir Born a Crime is an excellent read about growing up in South Africa. Born during apartheid, Trevor truly was born a crime. Hard to believe the events took place just twenty years ago. And most teachers will recognize Trevor the child. Great book!
Nancy, Trevor narrates the audiobook & it was awesome too!
That is on my list of favorite books now. I read it a few months ago and simply loved it.
A Crack in the Sea by H. M. Bouwman; Orphan Island by Laurel Synder; Hacking Assessment by Starr Sackstein; Matylda, Bright and Tender by Holly McGhee; Princess Cora and the Crocodile by Laura Amy Schlitz; See You in Cosmos by Jack Cheng; Finding Perfect by Elly Swartz; Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry; Scar Island by Dan Gemeinhart; Loving Vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell; Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Add: Teach Like Finland–just joined the book study
Disrupting Thinking is at the top of the stack! Then Orphan Island, Amina’s Voice, and a plethora of others to prep for Mock Newbery Club in the fall.
I just booktalked Amina’s Voice to an entire 5th grade. I loved it!
I’ll be reading all the Children’s Choice nominees for the state of Illinois–Monarch Award (Gr. K-3), Bluestem Award (Gr. 3-5), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award (Gr. 4-8), and Lincoln Award (Gr. 9-12).
I still have exams but I will be finished by the 22nd June! Summer is my favourite reading season and it’s perfect for contemporaries. I have some Morgan Matson and Colleen Hoover on my TBR and I’m especially excited to read Sarah Dessen’s new book😊
Oh my heavens! These responses are motivating. Reading fills my cup and I can’t wait to drink from it again.
Texas Bluebonnet list.
I’m in a public library so I am really going to be hitting the busiest time of the year soon. I am hoping to catch up a bit on series books and science books
Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by Beers and Probst
I’m excited to start In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary.
There are currently eight books on my Goodreads to read list. I am going to Nerd Camp and plan to leave with lots of new books. I am also on the lookout for Newbery contenders. So far, there is only one book on my list.
8 books? I have 300 🤣
My 9 year old niece & I (I’m a 6th grade language arts teacher) plan to read: Serafina and the Black Cloak, The Girl Who Drank the Moon, The Inquisitor’s Tale, & Wings of Fire book 1 The Dragonet Prophecy
The new Dennis Luhane book. A book about Mindfulness as that seems to be the new ed catchphrase lol
I would like to read The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. It should be a very interesting read!
“Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Unabridged in English for the first time, this long-awaited edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.” Amazon.com
I plan on reading a lot of books but I always aim to read one big fat book. This year it will be Washington by Ron Chernow. I have been talking about it all year with my first graders to highlight how even I use reading strategies. I’ll read some professional books too. The freedom to read at night without the weight of correcting/planning on my mind or the heavy eyes from reading after correcting is pure bliss and what I can’t wait for.
I’m going to try some new genres, I’m going to read more horror, true crime, and even some children’s books for nostalgia 🙂
Trying to stay on track with my Goodreads challenge–yet I’m woefully 6 books behind.
My list is too long to put here. Living overseas I store titles away for when I can get to my other home and the library. I have loads of great ideas from posts here, as well as other sources, stacked up in a hold list that is paused. In two weeks I will unpause it so that there are books waiting for me the day I land. I will then once again take on the #bookaday challenge and enjoy summer!
On the top of my shelve: The Martian (yeah, I know it’s older), The Underground Railroad, Anything Is Possible and Imagine Me Gone
The Underground Railroad is on my summer list too
TBR? Well, lets just say, it’s quite long.
I hope to read a book at least once a week. Some old, some new.
Reading currently The Baker’s Secret by Stephen Kieran which is good.
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. Loved Girl on the Train, so hopefully this is good. I also have a few of Jojo Moyes’ books stacked on my Bookshelf and trying to find a personal Development book or two to my list!!! The list goes on and on!
Ember in the Ashes (Tahir) is playing in the car and Well, that was Awkward (Vail) is bedside. Odd pairing, huh? At least I won’t get the plots confused.
I have my 4th and 5th grade students write letters to me at the end of the year with book recommendations for the summer. This lets me know what they have been enjoying reading and gives me books to recommend to other students the following year. They recommend so many good books that I usually don’t have enough summer to read them all!!
I am starting a Penny Kittle book titled Book Love, more About the Authors by Lisa Cleveland, The Next Step in Guided Reading by Jan Richardson, A Guide to the Reading Workshop by Lucy Calkins.
I am also reading Book Love. I have joined the book love summer book club. We have some selections that we will read together. I am also re-reading Differentiated Instruction as well as Writing Strategies.
I’ll be mostly writing this summer, but I’m rereading Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
I loved Fredrick Backman’s “A Man Called Ove” and am reading his “My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She’s Sorry.” Totally different story telling in each book, but what remains is surprising times when you laugh out loud. Both compassionate, lovely, funny and great reads…okay, so far in “My Grandmother.” But I expect things to end well.
I’m starting with I Will Always Write Back. I have joined the summer Book Love book club.
At the moment I am reading A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Mass… surrounded by blankets and heaters haha winter has just started here 🙂
The Baker’s Secret
going to read nothing better sleep all day