Hello out there!
My name is Ms. H and I am an eighth grade writing teacher in Texas. I decided to start this blog as a way for me to communicate and share with my bookish students who love to read, but that I don't get to spend enough time with talking about BOOKS! I have three daughters of my own - ages 10, 13 and 16 - and they all love to read as well. Consequently, I have recently fallen in LOVE with young adult / teen fiction - especially historical fiction as that's my favorite genre. In fact, my all-time favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Recently, we read a wonderful book together (that I'll discuss more in another post) despite having one daughter that lives over seas. I bought it for her at the Houston TeenBookCon a couple months ago and had the author sign it for her. It was so good, we decided to all read it together. We just met on Skype every Sunday and talked about the week's chapters. It was awesome. We called it the "Sister Tribe Book Club", and it was the inspiration for this "online book club blog".
So my vision for this blog is for it to eventually become like an online book club. Once I get myself organized, and there are enough followers on here, I'm going to choose a book (perhaps something recommended by one of you), then we'll set weekly reading goals and I'll put up some discussion questions each week that will help get the conversation going. I figure we can just use the comments feature on here to communicate as a group. We might even consider setting up a Google Hangout at some point if there's enough interest. Possibilities!
That being said, please be mindful of other people's feelings when posting comments on my blog, or I'll have to deal with you. Just like my classroom, I want this to be a safe place where people can have open discussions and express their opinions and thoughts without fear of judgement. I do not tolerate rudeness, bullying or belittling. Please keep your comments on topic and respectful.
Now I'd love it if you guys would post in the comments and tell ME a little about YOU!
What's your favorite genre of book?
What's your favorite all-time book and who write it?
Do you have any autographed books? If so, who signed it?
Have you ever been part of a book club - either in person or online?
Anything else you want me to know about you ...?
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