Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

As book banning has ramped up and terrible regulations slipped through a legal loophole in my state meaning that 11 books have been banned statewide in school libraries, I have become even more passionate about doing whatever I can to support wide access to literature for all my students and all SC students. After a…

The stacks of books languished and grew in my library as I transitioned from videos back to the blog and did not know how I would format an hual post as opposed to a video. I definitely won’t say that I have come anywhere close to figuring out a final format but I need to…

I had fun with this slightly absurdist fantasy. The main character wakes up after a magical accident apparently gone wrong, missing his eyebrows and also his memories. Although he finds his eyebrows quickly (set aside prior to the experiment) the memories do not return. This makes the situation a bit difficult when he realizes that…

For a girl who could count on one hand the number of books I had ever DNF’d, getting to the point of DNF’ing not just one but four books in the same month is a big deal. Since I have way too many books that I want to read, I have no time to waste…

Unlike the other graphic novelizations of Disney movies, I have watched the source material for this one. While I think that this one did a decent job in adapting the story, I prefer this story in its original form. I think, perhaps, these adaptions would work much better if Disney spent a little bit more…

Kim Johnson did it again. This story packed a punch and will definitely live for quite a while in my head. In this story, Andre, a high school senior, tries to make it day to day starting with serving the punishment for a crime he did not commit to quickly including the rapid descent into…

I have participated in various versions of Jade from Jadeyraereads‘ Polarthon readathon. This readathon usually occurs throughout the first week of February but this year Jade made it the whole month since she is currently in Iceland on a Trovatrip (which I really wanted to go on!). Of course I wanted to try. I have…

My experience with this book suffered a little bit due to switching between the ebook and the audiobook since I had not developed a pronunciation of many of these names in my head while reading the ebook. Thus, it took me a little while for me to associate the spoken names with the characters. Apart…

Whether it’s the cluster that is the country in which I live (and my attempt to cope with that) or the fact that my increased pace from the last couple months appears to have decided to stick around but I reached 50 books read this month, the highest monthly total during the school year. Take…