Books. I love books. I love the smell of them. I love the look of a brand new book. I love the excitement of having a book I am dying to read yet saving it for a "special occasion".
Last year, I decided to attempt to read 52 books in a year. I did pretty darn well. By July I had read 37 books. However, when I started my first year of teaching time for reading was nonexistent. From August to December I read one book and it was a required reading for work. How depressing is that?
My current count is at three books. Considering it's only January, I think I am doing well. Anyone have any books that I might want to start looking at for the beach in July? I'd like to get a start on finding them now.
This year's goal:
Actually read 52 books. I'm not making any restrictions on books this year. As long as it has pages and is bound, I'm counting it.
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I finally made the 52 book goal for 2007. I find that posting my books that I've read on my blog encourages me more. If you want to look at my lists, I've got 2006, 2007 and what I've done so far of this year in the sidebar of my blog for ideas. Good luck!
Oh - and when I was teaching, I totally counted all the books that I had to read along with the kids to keep up with reading groups and stuff. Phantom Tollbooth should absolutely count! What about read alouds? They should count too. Speaking of, (starting to ramble here) I can't tell what grade you're teaching, but if it's 4th or 5th, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles was my kids' favorite read aloud every year.
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