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So many books, so little time.

OMG I love books. The one constant in my life (nearly 3/4 of a century so far!) has been a love of reading. Mom taught me phonics before I even entered kindergarten and I've been hooked (get it, Boomers?) ever since.

I am a Fahrenheit 451 baby--I cut my political teeth on that book. I firmly believe that everything you could ever possibly want to know can be found in a book, somewhere.

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She/her. User avatar is a Bitmoji of a cis female in jeans and sweater. She is wearing glasses and her dishwater-blonde hair is in a bun. She is leaning against a pile of pillows, an open book in one hand.

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reviewed The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1) by Ben H. Winters

The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1) (Paperback, 2012, Quirk Books) 5 stars

The Last Policeman is a 2012 American science fiction mystery novel by Ben H. Winters. …

Pre-apocalyptic fiction

5 stars

This is a new genre on me, lol, but one I like. It raises all kinds of philosophical questions while being a damn good mystery/police procedural. Has me thinking all the time and journaling on the themes. What would I do if I knew? How would I act?

Went straight from this one into the 2nd book in the series. Not even a bathroom break in between, lol! It's that good. Highly recommend.

reviewed The Skillful Teacher by Stephen D. Brookfield

The Skillful Teacher (Hardcover, 2015, Jossey-Bass) 4 stars

University Book Club Selection

4 stars

This was our Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning's book club selection for the fall semester in 2017 at Kennesaw State University. As it had been the focus of other workshops I'd had, I was eager to get my hands on a copy and go through the whole thing with colleagues.

There were a number of things in it that I tried in my courses and liked but ultimately abandoned. #1, the book is still basically built around the sage-on-the-stage or banking (Freire) model of instruction. #2, I've shifted to interteaching and I now teach exclusively on line and his book is very much geared toward the physical classroom.

Some things I did not try were ableist, like the "Rotating Stations" exercise that assumes all bodies have equal access to all parts of the room--which I do not, and neither do a steady percentage of my students from semester …

reviewed The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 10 Books Box Set by Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel, A Room Full of Bones, The Outcast Dead, The Janus Stone, The Ghost Fields, The Crossing Places, A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths

The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 10 Books Box Set by Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel, A Room Full of Bones, The Outcast Dead, The Janus Stone, The Ghost Fields, The Crossing Places, A Dying Fall (Paperback, 2018, Quercus) 4 stars

Review of 'The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 10 Books Box Set by Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel, A Room Full of Bones, The Outcast Dead, The Janus Stone, The Ghost Fields, The Crossing Places, A Dying Fall' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Not quite up to the first two?

It's good, don't get me wrong, but it's formulaic and when everything unfolds at the end the villain gets the kind of verbal diarrhea we used time see in the old Bond films instead of just getting on with it. And it's always their undoing, isn't it? I've always wondered if real-life serial killers do this.

Otherwise, of course, it was a good read. On to the next one!