You Should Read
More than just a book review, my book blog offers notes and context, as well as close reading and creative writing possibilities. If you’re looking for a summary and spoilers, look elsewhere.
But if you want to learn how to be an attentive reader and how to a use a mentor text to improve your own writing, check out my You Should Read posts!
You Should Read THE LOST CITY OF Z
By then, I was deep into David Grann’s The Lost City of Z, and I needed to know if Grann would uncover the fate of Percy Fawcett or, even better, Fawcett’s fabled city of Z.
You Should Read THE GREAT GATSBY
Each year of my teaching career, springtime brings heavy snows, standardized tests, and The Great Gatsby.
You Should Read FOSTER
My daughters are near the narrator’s age and when they have outbursts, either happy or sad, I think of Keegan’s apt depiction of the confusion of growing up.