One element of Christianity, and by element I mean faction, is the mindset that fiction is “evil” and that somehow only “non-fiction” is pure. I didn’t grow up in that faction nor were many of my friends and family. As an English teacher in a Christian high school I have run into some resistance to literature. Fortunately, it wasn’t anything a face-to-face conversation couldn’t settle. So it was with great surprise that when I started reading John Eldredge’s Waking the Dead, that fiction, especially of […]
If It Weren’t for the F-Bombs, I’d Teach This in a Heartbeat
Since reading Me Before You, I’ve become very distrusting of authors who write characters with disabilities without having that experience themselves. This is not the case with Mark Haddon and his character Christopher who is on the autism spectrum in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Mr. Haddon has had some experience working with young people on the autism spectrum which informed his formation of Christopher, but Christopher’s disability is never the center of the novel. Instead, Christopher’s unique perspective is merely […]
The Money Class
After reading Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover, I began to change how I looked at money and how I handle it. I’ve always liked learning about how to make money work for me and how I can be a good steward with the funds I’m blessed with. I saw a review The Money Class by Suze Orman here on Cannonball Read. I was curious to see what Ms. Orman’s theory of money management was seeing as how the reviewer felt it was very relevant to […]
Modern Romance
I’ve been a fan of Aziz Ansari since I saw him on Parks & Recreation. When I saw that he had written Modern Romance, I at first thought it was going to be his memoir. I was surprised when it was a book focused on researching how modern individuals find and maintain relationships. Because my expectation was so different I wasn’t sure what to expect. What helped ease me into the book was the fact that Mr. Ansari takes his own personal experiences with modern […]
And Then There Were None
Several students at my school developed an idea for starting a student-led book club. Being the English teacher, I was the obvious choice to be the sponsor for this group. While it’s just one more thing I’m juggling, this was something fun and worthwhile. The leaders decided to select a theme for each month and this first theme was “Thriller”. So they decided on And Then There Were None. I’ve read Murder on the Orient Express, but no other Agatha Christie. I was looking forward […]
Just Mercy
I don’t read a lot of books about law, fiction or nonfiction. I tried The Firm and it just wasn’t my cup of tea. When my book club picked Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, I wasn’t sure what to expect. We had paired this book with our discussion of Between the World and Me. The one element of Just Mercy that really piqued my interest is that one of the central cases that Stevenson takes on is in the town where Harper Lee lives and […]
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