Category: Books

No Books in the Home

The graphic shows percentages of how little people read once they get out of school. I honestly don’t understand this, because how do you just…not read stuff? I don’t get how this happens but I know it’s true. I have taught children whose parents didn’t have even ONE book in the home.

Trula Earthgarden January 2022

10 Book Confessions

1. I definitely prefer paperbacks above all  2. I also break the spines of my paperbacks 3. I don’t dog ear my pages, but I support dog earers 4. I mark in books all the time  5. I read for enjoyment, but part of that enjoyment is putting reading goals in place  6. I finish […]

Orwell, Atwood, Butler fake quotes

When Authors are Prescient

LOL I had to do it! Butler’s book, one the best books I have ever read, was published in 1998. Very prescient: “The novel is set against the backdrop of a dystopian United States that has come under the grip of a Christian fundamentalist denomination called “Christian America” led by President Andrew Steele Jarret. Seeking […]