I'm posting this response to a letter as a way of reminding myself how much I really do read. Poor unsuspecting Mark just asked how my classes were going and what I like to read and out poured all of this:
Hi Mark,
I've spent the last week fighting a cold and laryngitis, which is a trick while teaching! My students are getting used to the whispers. My classes almost always go well, and the students are really good people, so I'm quite spoiled.
I've read or re-read several books this last week. The newest one was "God, Sky &Land" by Brian Bull and Fritz Guy. I really enjoyed reading it, and learned a lot about ancient Hebrew culture from it. I bought the book after seeing it advertised on the Spectrum website. It quotes a book I read over Christmas "I love Jesus and I accept evolution" by Denis Lamoureux. Both are books I read because of my own personal interest and because of what I teach.
Another book I finished last night is "5 secrets for peace in a storm" by Ruthie Jacobsen. It was given to all the SDA teachers at the teacher's convention in Nashville last summer.
I'm in the middle of reading "The Shack Revisited" by C. Baxter Kruger. He speaks as a representative of a ministry dedicated to "proclaiming the gospel of the Triune God". I very much enjoyed reading "The Shack", so this caught my eye at Chapters. I currently have two students who are dedicated Christians, but who do not believe in the Trinity, so I felt like I needed to learn more before I could converse intelligently with them.
I do enjoy reading cookbooks - but lately I've been selecting recipes for my Foods class from online sources. Yesterday the class made homemade gnocchi and tomorrow they will make a homemade tomato sauce. I'm busy looking for Easter breads for them to make the week after next.
I almost always have two or three books on the go - I love to read. Besides books, I have the NSTA journal 'The Science Teacher', the NCTM journal 'The Mathematics Teacher', Canadian Geographic, and Beautiful British Columbia which I read regularly. I spend a fair bit of time scanning the contents of about 30 blogs which I follow. Many of them are teacher or science content related, some are quilt related, and some are written by friends and family.
I almost always have a "happily ever after story" to read just before I go to sleep. Sometimes these are kids books, sometimes romances, sometimes books recommended by a friend. I just try to read something fun and cheerful every day.
Thanks you so much for asking - clearly I wanted to talk! Please tell me more about what you like to read.
Cherri
Wow, inspiring! You do read a lot! I love reading, but I find that recently I've been doing less book-reading and more blog-reading. Both are good, but I think I need to work on spending a little less time reading from a screen and a little more time reading from paper. Thanks for this write-up of books. I might have to check out a few of them. They sound great!
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