Shannon McCarty > Recent Status Updates

I thought that this was going to be a new series- but it really feels like a book 4 in the Shades of Magic Series.

It's been a few days of reading where I can barely put it down.

Just started. This goes to show there's a book about everything at the library!

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry is even better than I remembered it as a kid. I'm so glad I reread it!

This book is creeping me out! Not that it's REALLY scary, but gosh, my heart is racing at times!

The second person narration really wormed its way into my brain. I found myself narrating everything I was doing and even dreaming in second person.

I am glad to be rereading this right now with testing season coming up. Reading is not about answering questions. Reading is about gaining insight, learning about ourselves and others and finding our own meaning. There are so many parts that tug at my heartstrings that I want for my own students.

Reading this in March during the end of a long snowy winter makes me happy to not be in Alaska during a long snowy winter. It's getting better though (the book and the winter).

I feel like such a flake because I had no idea that this was the third book of a trilogy. No wonder why it was so hard to understand at the beginning. Now I am enjoying it, but I also feel like I've cheated and skipped ahead to the ending.
I'm trying to decide if I should read the earlier books in the series and in what order. What would you do?

This book is amazing! I am so gad to have a snow day today to finish it up.

I could hardly stop tonight.

This book has perfect timing, to nuture all my anxiety wrapped up in this holiday and seasonal darkness. But I got to laugh on my way to work on a Monday morning and I am currently on a chapter titled, "Why would I want to do more when I am already doing so well at nothing?"

Starting Strange the Dreamer was the perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon. I'm looking forward to getting completely absorbed again soon.

I'm loving this book right now. Haven't read it since 6th grade- I have a whole new appreciation for it now.

Time to do some professional reading to help my students to engage more with their novels this year.