May's Progress Report

Another year is done. Another group of seniors have graduated and become freshmen again. My break is over. It was a slow reading month, but looking at the list below, it was not without headway. It's strange that I consider a month where I've only completed five books a slow month when there is a significant percentage of American adults who do not even read one in a year.

Next year, I think I'll try to stockpile about 20 posts so that I don't get run into a gap during the worst of it.

Moving forward: I had been planning a month of nonfiction for June and a free for all month for July. I think I'm going to go ahead and have my free for all month in June. I have a lot of books lying around that I'd like to get to and they don't fit into an easy theme.

More later. I'm back.

1. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdien
2. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
3. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
4. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
5. Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani
6. Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
7. The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower
8. The Fold by Peter Clines
9. The Stranger by Harlan Coben
10. Marrow by Tarryn Fisher
11. Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
12. Alice by Christina Henry
13. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
14. Beacon 23: The Complete Novel by Hugh Howey
15. Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
16. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Finders Keepers by Stephen King
18. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
19. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
20. When Books Went to War by Molly Manning
21. Forensics: WHat Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
22. Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
23. Slade House by David Mitchell
24. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
25. Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran
26. Dumplin by Julie Murphy
27. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
28. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
29. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
30. The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
31. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.D. Schwab
32. The Marvels by Brian Selznick
33. The Architects Apprentice by Elif Shafak
34. The Cartel by Don Winslow
35. Made You Up by Francesca Zappia

Professional (Some of these are older than 2014)
     36.. Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning by Doug Buehl
     37. "You Gotta Be the Book" by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
     38. I Read it, But I Don't Get It by Cris Tovani
     39. In the Middle by Nancie Atwell
     40. Mosaic of Thought by Keene and Zimmermann
     41. Reading Diagnosis for Teachers by Barr et. al
     42. Strategies That Work by Harvey and Goudvis
     43. Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12 by Zwiers
     44. A Handbook for Classroom Instruction that Works by Marzano et al
     45. On Caring by Milton Mayeroff
     46. Write Like This by Kelly Gallagher