A slight hint of Autumn in the air!

It's just a little cooler and the students are already responding with less of a time delay - some days in summer my classroom is like an oven.I've re-read and am teaching The One Day of the Year by Alan Seymour, The Shifting Heart by Beynon, Letters from the Inside by Marsden and The Outsiders by S.E.Hinton. Many of the students have also read said texts so I may be surprised with some good results in essays next week.

This is what I am currently reading and thoroughly enjoying. I loved Sue Monk Kidd's Secret Life of Bees and this is just as enjoyable, though set in a differnt time period. The Hope book club are reading this:

I found Genelle's writing to be unpretentious and honest. Her life was transformed by her experience on this day, and the latter part of the book is definitely testament to this.

Reading next? Maybe an Andrew McGahan or Aravind Adiga or Tim Winton or Janet Evanovich. Still waiting for The Narrow Road to the Deep North to be available at the library.