Back to School Reading Challenge and Wednesday Book Club

Welcome to the Back to School Reading Challenge and Wednesday Book Club! We’re reading books to learn new things.

You’re welcome to join us! The challenge runs until September 30 so there’s still lots of time to participate.

We had two book reviews last week.

Review ~ The Glorious Deception at The Writerly Reader:

There are layers and layers of stories around magic and magicians. Some of these stories are…not true.

French Twist by Catherine Crawford at Melos bookshelf:

The book is full of charming stories about her family and her darling little girls. I am pretty sure that I enjoyed every single page of this book.

Chat Tonight!

We’re meeting tonight on Twitter at 9 Eastern Time (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific). We’ll be using the hashtag #WSChat. WS stands for Wordsmith Studio, a group of writers learning together on the internet. They have graciously allowed us to take over a normal time slot that they use for book discussions to talk about what we’re reading for the Back to School Reading Challenge. Writing books may make an appearance in the discussion.

My Update

I finished my test-drive of one of the rules in Julia Child Rules by Karen Karbo. I posted almost every day of that week. I listed the posts in order on Monday: The American Library in Paris.

I’m enjoying our Read Along book, How Children Succeed by Paul Tough, more than I thought I might. I’ll write more about that in a separate post so anyone who is reading it can join the discussion.

Your Update

What are you reading and learning right now? Link up reviews and update posts below so we can all visit. Or, discuss in the comments.

Comments

Back to School Reading Challenge and Wednesday Book Club — September 4 — 7 Comments

Joyful Reader on September 4, 2013 at 8:15 am said:

I just received The Well Educated Mind in the mail last night! I can’t wait to get started on it. Will probably be October but it is on my nightstand just waiting to be read! I purchased it mostly because it has the titles and authors of some of the best books to read. Browsing through it though I am excited to see lots of education in the way of reading and processing the works. I will post about it when I get into it but thought I would let you know that I am “following” you in many areas! Have a great day!

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- Joy Weese Moll / @joyweesemoll on September 4, 2013 at 8:41 am said:
  
  That looks like a fun book to work through!
  
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Satia on September 4, 2013 at 8:56 am said:

I had to return my copy of the chosen book. I borrowed it too early and I didn’t want to start reading it until I knew we were all going to discuss it. To add insult to injury, I can’t ask for it again until after month’s end so I guess I won’t be able to join in the discussion after all. So insert a pout here. Maybe next time I’ll be less over-eager and a little more patient. 🙁

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- Joy Weese Moll / @joyweesemoll on September 4, 2013 at 10:06 am said:
  
  Well, at least, it’s good to know that people are reading it. Our county library system has 20 copies and about a third of the copies are sitting on the shelf.
  
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  - Satia on September 4, 2013 at 10:46 am said:
    
    LOL!
    
    I was kinda hoping that whoever requested it (which is why I could not renew it) was someone else who follows your blog.
    
    So if anyone is reading this who happens to live in the Cobb County are of Georgia, apparently we’re competing with one another for reading material. 🙂
    
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