WWW Wednesdays is a bookish meme that was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by "fledgling writer" Sam A. Stevens on Taking on a World of Words. To participate, you just answer the Three W's:
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you'll read next?
Currently Reading:
I consider myself a happy person to a fault and that translates to how I behave towards my students and how I structure my lessons. I have long felt that anyone at all can and should strive towards personal improvement in all areas and this book by Thich Nhat Hanh applies the methods of mindfulness towards the classroom. A happy teacher can produce happy students and also teach them these methods to improve not only their attentiveness and study habits within the classroom but also their behavior in the big world beyond. It all starts with one breath in, one breath out . . .
Recently Finished:
This was a great find, filling the "book set in Australia" prompt for July's Crossing Continents Challenge and causing me to seek out the two additional titles in the saga of the Thornhill family. William Thornhill is sentenced to live imprisonment at the penal colony that New South Wales began as, initially assigned as a ward of his wife but obtains his freedom in a bit over four years. Working on a cargo boat plying a nearby river, William falls in love with the dream of owning a small patch of land. The majority of The Secret River describes the struggles the ever-growing family endures in carving out that property with their closest neighbors being a fierce band of Aboriginals.
Lost Birds centers around a disappearance and a murder but the core, with Joe Leaphorn taking center stage throughout most of the novel, concerns the adoption of Navajo children by non-native parents. As an adoptee myself, I thought that being adopted in the sealed-records state of Texas was hard but I had no idea of the difficulties faced by those seeking to learn whether they are truly Navajo and the near impossibilities of tracing their birth parents amidst the lack of records and the fact that many of those that do exist may have been falsified.
Anne Frank's diary deserves every bit of its status in the literary world and beyond. I was fascinated and want to learn more. One of the books I plan to read in August is Francine Prose's book making a case for the diary being a true work of art.
Reading Next:
A Journey to the Center of the Earth is another piece of classic literature that I have never read. I will rectify that this coming month.
Happy Reading!
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