I challenged myself on Goodreads to read 40 books in 2016, and I exceeded that goal by two. Of those 42 books, some were ebooks and some were unabridged audiobooks. For those books I included in my records the number of pages in the most current print edition, and arrived at the grand total of […]
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Can this infographic help students spot a phony news article? Test it out with your students, kids or friends and let us know in the comments. Source: News you can use: Infographic walks you through 10 questions to detect fake news | The Seattle Times Check out the PDF in this article. This exercise isn’t
Watch out: That message might not be from who you think. Source: Hackers are using this nasty text-message trick to break into people’s accounts Earlier this week, Alex MacCaw, cofounder of data API company Clearbit, shared a screenshot of a text attempting to trick its way past two-factor authentication (2FA) on a Google account. Please
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Original publication date: 1857 Translated by Lydia Davis (Penguin Books, 2010) Highly recommended Madame Bovary is a seminal work in the rise of literary realism: an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. Although realism is not limited to any one century or group of writers,
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11/22/63 by Stephen King Recommended Jake Epping is a 35-year-old high school English teacher in the small town of Lisbon Falls, Maine. To earn some extra money, he also teaches English to adult GED students. The only other activity in his life is moping around and lamenting the recent divorce from his short-term alcoholic wife.
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Because I had jury duty for the entire month of March, I did not get as much reading done as I would have liked. I usually finish one book before starting another, but I decided to set aside the book I was reading, on which I wanted to take notes, for one that I could
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Related Posts: 10 Big Books I Have Read & Loved 6 Big Books I Keep Meaning to Reread Like most of you, I have big, ambitious plans for my future reading. Here are the Big Books that currently reside on my TBR shelves. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy paperback, 1392 pages Isn’t this
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Not too long ago, in the book section at Target, I overheard a woman say to her companion, “I stay away from big books.” They walked away, so I didn’t get to hear any more of the conversation, but it made me think about big books. I can imagine many reasons someone might offer for
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Anne over at Modern Mrs. Darcy recently suggested listing The things that are saving my life right now. Here’s her explanation of this idea: The idea comes from author Barbara Brown Taylor. In her memoir Leaving Church, Taylor tells about a time she was invited to speak, and her host assigned her this topic: “Tell
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