Ernest Hemingway’s bathroom reading, which I snapped this photo of when I visited his home just outside Havana, Cuba, back in 2017.
Recently, I finished up a four-year program — kind of a once-a-week college-style course, if you will — that occupied a lot of my reading time over the past few years. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it; but, it meant I needed to be reading for my class, and couldn’t spread my wings to read whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.
Now, of course, I can. And summer is the time when I’ve always loved to dive in and explore new worlds — whether that’s David Grann’s The Lost City of Z, or
’s We Were Never Here, or Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, which I’m (still!) working my way through. (If you’re into Caro, by the way, there’s an excellent book club on TPB all this year, by the podcast 99% Invisible.)
So I thought I’d ask: what are you reading that you’re loving right now, or what books are you excited about digging into when you get the chance this summer?
I Thought It Was Just Me, But It Isn’t by Brene Brown
SuperLife by Darin Olien
Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor
I just finished Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown. I’m really into her stuff now. This is the 3rd book I read by her and just downloaded 3 more. Rise of the Ultra Runner by Adharanand Finn was a good read/listen too. He went from being a marathoner to an ultra runner and he tells of his trials during those ultras. I’ll read that one again, I’m sure.
I have just begun American Gods and enjoying a lot. I recently finished Born a Crime and was amazed by the absurdity of living in a world like of the world in South Africa during the apartheid, and the author doesn’t carry as much grudge as I, myself would have. What will be next? Who knows…My shelves have plenty to pick from.
GA -- Since I needed an extra 10 hours between Monday and Tuesday to complete David Goggins 4X4X48 challenge my friend at Park Run this morning suggested I look into buying David's book "Never Finished -- Unshackle your mind and Win the War within"
I’m reading The Art Thief for my book club and The Rush for me. I saw someone’s comment about the Sally McRae book—I just watched and loved the Moab documentary, so I’ll prob add Strong to my list! Thanks Teresa!
I just finished the women by Kristin Hannah and choose strong by Sally mcrae. I recommend both highly. It's always wonderful to look at other people's favorite reads and why they chose them. I'm now on to something light for summer reading called Summer at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews. After this I will be reading a book called The Edge of Lost. It is a book about Alcatraz in 1937 it is fictional mystery
I'm reading a book that one of my high school classmates wrote. The title is: The practical seductress by Sue Camaione. I am also reading meditations of Marcus Aurelius translated by George Long with an introduction by WL Courtney Black and son LTD London
Just finished Amor Towles Table for Two. A collection of short stories. They were enjoyable. I’m curious what type of reading you had to to do for your program?
Currently reading Demons of Unrest, Erik Larson. Non fiction about Fort Sumter and Civil War. I like everything I’ve read by this author. Just finished reading Gentleman in Moscow. I have read a few of his books, this one is from 2016, and as I finished it, I see advertising that it’s going to be a miniseries or something or other on Netflix, maybe. Could be interesting or annoying if they totally rewrite the story as it was. Lol.
Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal), this is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.
He has written that unless he can get recharged he may be done. Makes me think I need to go back to the beginning and reread A Short History of a Small Place. I’ll miss him. Always thought the Ray Tatum books would have made for a great tv or streaming series
I am currently reading The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz. It’s a modern British mystery written kind of in Sherlock Holmes fashion. There is a lot of subtle British humor. I am enjoying it thus far. It moves quickly after the first couple of chapters. I just found out who the murderer is, and it’s an interesting twist.
I'm almost finished with The Devil and Mrs. Davenport, by Paulette Kennedy, like so close to being done that when I'm finished writing this comment I'm going to sit down with it for 5 minutes to finish. I've really liked it.
For my easy summer reads that I put on hold at the library to read whenever they come available, the Anna Pidgeon National Park mysteries by Nevada Barr.
In the meantime I'm going through all the Kindle Unlimited books I've already downloaded, before I buy any more books. For nonfiction I'm reading Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey and I think my next fiction will be Lost to Dune Road by Kara Thomas.
We are moving soon and are on austerity budget until my new job starts in a couple months, so Kindle Unlimited and the library for me, rather than buying new books!
I don't remember the interview,, but I'll go back and listen to it. As far as I'm concerned, she is one of the greatest runners and writers of all times!. . . Perhaps I was out running. . . :) Took me forever to get "Running Home" back to the library. . . I couldn't put it down. . .hoped it would go on and on and on!
Plodding through The Aging Brain by Timothy R. Jennings, M.D. Self-help to prevent dementia and sharpen the mind. . . Not a normal for me, but the suggestions he offers really are helpful.
About to take on Katie Arnold's new book "Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World" which just came out in April. I love Katie Arnold! Have to read through what others have posted. I've found their suggestions wonderful in the past!
About to finish Leigh Bardugo's "The Familiar" which is a nice YA novel set in colonial Spain and filled with magic. It's good, but I think I'm a little too old for it haha. Also getting through "The Settlers" by David McCollough, which is about the settlement of Ohio.
Probably looking for my next fiction this weekend!
As I’ve been working my way through Caro’s Powerbroker, I wanted to learn a bit more about the built environment in my own city. I’ve really enjoyed Hella Town by Mitchell Schwarzer on the twentieth-century development of Oakland, California. It’s fascinating and accessible, and a great primer of the decisions that turned the city into a turnstile of highways and paved over urban disrepair. https://bookshop.org/p/books/hella-town-oakland-s-history-of-development-and-disruption-mitchell-schwarzer/16494120
I'm a librarian, so I'm always reading something! I also host a podcast, mostly about libraries, but this summer, I'm featuring authors all summer long, starting with Cory Doctorow's THE BEZZLE. https://circulatingideas.com/ The next episode features a sharp turn to a Regency romance author, Amita Murray!
(Sorry, I didn't mean to turn this into a commercial for the podcast, but it seemed to fit so well!)
I am always in the middle of several books, and right now, those books are:
THE BOURNE EVOLUTION by Brian Freeman
TRIPTYCH by Karin Slaughter
THE DOG SITTER DETECTIVE by Antony Johnston
CHALLENGER by Adam Higginbotham
DARE TO LEAD by Brene Brown
I just finished reading WHALEFALL by Daniel Krause which was a trip!
And I have a huge pile of books on my To Be Read list!!
I am reading "The Paris Bookseller" by Kerri Maher. The book is reminiscent of my Euro travel while I am baking in the Texas sun. I am also looking to read more fiction and escape reality for a while before I get back to non fiction :)
I am working on "Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 miles, 197 Countries, One Play" because Hamlet is being performed this summer in Winona, MN., a nearby town. It's about the London Globe company taking the play on the road, around the world. If you want to understand the play better, though it is widely acknowledged by scholars that no one fully does, you might want to read this book. Maybe you know that there are thoughts beyond your soul , too.
i just finished The Women by Kristin Hannah...amazing book. i cannot recommend it enough. i do not know a lot about the vietnam war and i found it to be very informative. while fiction, a lot of it is based on true events. right now i am reading Lessons in Chemistry. so good! i'm barely halfway through. i hate that i don't have a lot of time to read. one day!
I am in the boat of looking for suggestions, I need o get off the Social Media reading and into more in-depth reading. I am hoping that this thread will get me off my can and onto something different.
You should join Goodreads. It has lots of suggestions, and you can link up with friends, and see what they're reading. I also follow a fb group called Lost Without Books, and it has many suggestions, as well. It also helps getting out of your comfort zone with what you read.
I'm currently reading Lisa See's Dreams of Joy; Jessica Simpsons biography, and Next Level, by Lisa Sims, about working out and staying healthy through menopause. When I get bored with one, I move on to the other, but rarely will stop reading it completely, unless it's horrible.
Recently finished the 2007 book, "The World Without Us," which I wrote about to get my over-reaction out of my system. Now I'm reading a marvelous collection of interviews with Native American elders, "We Are the Middle of Forever." Fiction here on Substack: "In Judgment of Others," by Eleanor Anstruther and "An Interpreter in Vienna," by Kathleen Waller.
Love to hear what other are reading - I find many new books to add to my stack of reading. Just finished Challenger by Adam Higginbotham (excellent book on the Challenger disaster), and My Day with the Cup by Jim Lang (about the Stanley Cup - I'm an avid hockey fan). Currently into Alice by Stacy Cordery (Teddy Roosevelt's daughter); The Art of War by Sun Tzu; The Woman behind the New Deal (Francis Perkins). Also on the stack is the Powe Broker I read it in 1976, but after reading your comments I decided to read it again and The Rediscover of America by Ned Blackhawk (history o the native peoples of the US.
These sound great. I'm going to add Challenger and Alice to my Goodreads. I'm not sure I can read Challenger. I was only in 4th grade, but I remember to vividly that day. Roosevelts daughter was very interesting.
All of those sound great, Kenneth -- and, I hadn't ever heard of most of them! The Rediscovery of America sounds especially interesting -- have you already read that, and are set for a re-read?
I’m trying to catch up on Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series before the new one hits shelves later this year. I’m also reading Nosy Neighbors right now — also a murder mystery — that made the Edgar Award finals. I like to pull new book ideas from the Edgars because I find those usually truly are the best mystery releases from that particular year.
These all sound good -- mystery is probably my favorite fiction genre. I've always wanted to check out Louise Penny, it always seems like she has a new one out whenever I visit the bookstore. Love your newsletter title, by the way!!
We’re launching a new graduate program in my department at Baylor University in the fall (the MFA in Film & Digital Media), and I’ve been thinking a lot about student assessment in that program (and in general over the years, especially because I’m in a creative discipline). So this summer I’m reading Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead). It’s a book of essays about the concept of “ungrading,” what it is, why it’s worth pursuing, and various methods of implementation.
Hi, Chris, I recently heard about ungrading at a teaching innovation conference at my university. I'm glad to know about this book, will have to give it a look. I teach architecture and that's never fun to assess. Thanks!
Hi Julie! I just started it myself. I’ve only read the introduction and one chapter but already finding it very interesting and feeling like there’s some stuff here I’ll want to implement. I’ve experimented with giving students more control over what is assessed and what we do in classes in the past, with some success. It feels like the right time to do this as we’re starting a new program and I’m on the midst of designing a new workshop course to kick things off. I really want them to take ownership of their own progress and rely less on my grading. I’d still give them notes and feedback, of course. But the grades would be de-emphasized!
I loved upgrading….even within the confines of the “give a grade” system we have all the way through K-12 and beyond, it is so great to think about how the feedback up to that point can actually encourage learning. Keep trying at the college level and we will do the same K-12!
That’s how the prof who presented about it approached it, too. The sad thing is, they still had to give a letter grade at the end because the university requires it for GPA. Which led me to wonder if the students would see the whole thing as moot.
LOVE the photo...I've been on a Leif Enger kick as he's coming to my fabulous local Indie bookstore on Sunday. I recently re-read Peace Like a River which was even better on the second reading. Enger (for me) is equal parts Frank Capra (optimism and a little bit of magic), Bill Bryson (humor), a dash of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (the movie)--"yarns" written in absolutely beautiful prose...
I like that little setup…so inviting!
The books I’m currently reading are:
Endure by Alexander Hutchinson
I Thought It Was Just Me, But It Isn’t by Brene Brown
SuperLife by Darin Olien
Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor
I just finished Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown. I’m really into her stuff now. This is the 3rd book I read by her and just downloaded 3 more. Rise of the Ultra Runner by Adharanand Finn was a good read/listen too. He went from being a marathoner to an ultra runner and he tells of his trials during those ultras. I’ll read that one again, I’m sure.
I have just begun American Gods and enjoying a lot. I recently finished Born a Crime and was amazed by the absurdity of living in a world like of the world in South Africa during the apartheid, and the author doesn’t carry as much grudge as I, myself would have. What will be next? Who knows…My shelves have plenty to pick from.
I'll let you know how it is when I finish
GA -- Since I needed an extra 10 hours between Monday and Tuesday to complete David Goggins 4X4X48 challenge my friend at Park Run this morning suggested I look into buying David's book "Never Finished -- Unshackle your mind and Win the War within"
I listened to Never Finished…it’s good! There’s extra commentary if you do the audiobook.
I’m reading The Art Thief for my book club and The Rush for me. I saw someone’s comment about the Sally McRae book—I just watched and loved the Moab documentary, so I’ll prob add Strong to my list! Thanks Teresa!
I just finished the women by Kristin Hannah and choose strong by Sally mcrae. I recommend both highly. It's always wonderful to look at other people's favorite reads and why they chose them. I'm now on to something light for summer reading called Summer at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews. After this I will be reading a book called The Edge of Lost. It is a book about Alcatraz in 1937 it is fictional mystery
Interesting! My 10-year-old is fascinated by Alcatraz lately… as am I 😀
I'm reading a book that one of my high school classmates wrote. The title is: The practical seductress by Sue Camaione. I am also reading meditations of Marcus Aurelius translated by George Long with an introduction by WL Courtney Black and son LTD London
I’m currently reading Cornbread Mafia. On my list is Embrace the Suck and Runners High.
Just finished Amor Towles Table for Two. A collection of short stories. They were enjoyable. I’m curious what type of reading you had to to do for your program?
Currently reading Demons of Unrest, Erik Larson. Non fiction about Fort Sumter and Civil War. I like everything I’ve read by this author. Just finished reading Gentleman in Moscow. I have read a few of his books, this one is from 2016, and as I finished it, I see advertising that it’s going to be a miniseries or something or other on Netflix, maybe. Could be interesting or annoying if they totally rewrite the story as it was. Lol.
If you like Eric Larson, I recommend In the Garden of Beasts. It chronichles US Ambassador to Germany in 1933 leading up to WWIi
Read it😁. Devil in the White City is good too. Fascinating how many things came out of the Worlds Fair
Burn Book - Kara Swisher
Beeps in it for a week now
Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal), this is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.
He has written that unless he can get recharged he may be done. Makes me think I need to go back to the beginning and reread A Short History of a Small Place. I’ll miss him. Always thought the Ray Tatum books would have made for a great tv or streaming series
I am currently reading The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz. It’s a modern British mystery written kind of in Sherlock Holmes fashion. There is a lot of subtle British humor. I am enjoying it thus far. It moves quickly after the first couple of chapters. I just found out who the murderer is, and it’s an interesting twist.
I love this series! Anthony Horowitz is incredible.
Interesting.... I love these kinds of novels
I'm almost finished with The Devil and Mrs. Davenport, by Paulette Kennedy, like so close to being done that when I'm finished writing this comment I'm going to sit down with it for 5 minutes to finish. I've really liked it.
For my easy summer reads that I put on hold at the library to read whenever they come available, the Anna Pidgeon National Park mysteries by Nevada Barr.
In the meantime I'm going through all the Kindle Unlimited books I've already downloaded, before I buy any more books. For nonfiction I'm reading Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey and I think my next fiction will be Lost to Dune Road by Kara Thomas.
I have a TON of yet-to-be-read (which I really do intend to read!) books on my Kindle as well... the Kindle app on my phone, that is. Someday... :)
We are moving soon and are on austerity budget until my new job starts in a couple months, so Kindle Unlimited and the library for me, rather than buying new books!
I don't remember the interview,, but I'll go back and listen to it. As far as I'm concerned, she is one of the greatest runners and writers of all times!. . . Perhaps I was out running. . . :) Took me forever to get "Running Home" back to the library. . . I couldn't put it down. . .hoped it would go on and on and on!
I’m just finishing what sadly might be T. R. Pearson’s last book, Bone Eye.
Oh, wow -- why do you think it's his last book?
Plodding through The Aging Brain by Timothy R. Jennings, M.D. Self-help to prevent dementia and sharpen the mind. . . Not a normal for me, but the suggestions he offers really are helpful.
About to take on Katie Arnold's new book "Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World" which just came out in April. I love Katie Arnold! Have to read through what others have posted. I've found their suggestions wonderful in the past!
I love her too! I don't know if you remember, but I had the chance to interview her back in 2020: https://www.thehalfmarathoner.com/p/our-next-book-club-pick-katie-arnolds
About to finish Leigh Bardugo's "The Familiar" which is a nice YA novel set in colonial Spain and filled with magic. It's good, but I think I'm a little too old for it haha. Also getting through "The Settlers" by David McCollough, which is about the settlement of Ohio.
Probably looking for my next fiction this weekend!
Both of those sound interesting! What kind of fiction are you into?
Mostly fantasy and sci-fi, leaning more towards fantasy. But I'll read anything haha. One of my favorite books ever is Anna Karenina.
As I’ve been working my way through Caro’s Powerbroker, I wanted to learn a bit more about the built environment in my own city. I’ve really enjoyed Hella Town by Mitchell Schwarzer on the twentieth-century development of Oakland, California. It’s fascinating and accessible, and a great primer of the decisions that turned the city into a turnstile of highways and paved over urban disrepair. https://bookshop.org/p/books/hella-town-oakland-s-history-of-development-and-disruption-mitchell-schwarzer/16494120
I'll have to check this out! I love these kinds of stories too, about how cities come to be. Just fascinating.
I'm a librarian, so I'm always reading something! I also host a podcast, mostly about libraries, but this summer, I'm featuring authors all summer long, starting with Cory Doctorow's THE BEZZLE. https://circulatingideas.com/ The next episode features a sharp turn to a Regency romance author, Amita Murray!
(Sorry, I didn't mean to turn this into a commercial for the podcast, but it seemed to fit so well!)
I am always in the middle of several books, and right now, those books are:
THE BOURNE EVOLUTION by Brian Freeman
TRIPTYCH by Karin Slaughter
THE DOG SITTER DETECTIVE by Antony Johnston
CHALLENGER by Adam Higginbotham
DARE TO LEAD by Brene Brown
I just finished reading WHALEFALL by Daniel Krause which was a trip!
And I have a huge pile of books on my To Be Read list!!
I am reading "The Paris Bookseller" by Kerri Maher. The book is reminiscent of my Euro travel while I am baking in the Texas sun. I am also looking to read more fiction and escape reality for a while before I get back to non fiction :)
I’m on library waitlist for Paris Bookseller!
I talked to Kerri for my podcast about her newest book, All You Have To Do Is Call! She's great! https://circulatingideas.com/2023/10/31/249-all-you-have-to-do-is-call-by-kerri-maher/
Oh that's cool! I will check it out
I am working on "Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 miles, 197 Countries, One Play" because Hamlet is being performed this summer in Winona, MN., a nearby town. It's about the London Globe company taking the play on the road, around the world. If you want to understand the play better, though it is widely acknowledged by scholars that no one fully does, you might want to read this book. Maybe you know that there are thoughts beyond your soul , too.
i just finished The Women by Kristin Hannah...amazing book. i cannot recommend it enough. i do not know a lot about the vietnam war and i found it to be very informative. while fiction, a lot of it is based on true events. right now i am reading Lessons in Chemistry. so good! i'm barely halfway through. i hate that i don't have a lot of time to read. one day!
She absolutely never disappoints. I remembered so much of what she shared of this time in our country's history.
I love Kristin Hannah. I read The Four Winds last year, one of the best fiction in 2023 for me
I loved The Women, and Lessons in Chemistry. Recommended both to my 25yo daughter.
its on my list i heard it was great!
For general well written summer light reading-I just discovered India Holton. Lots of spoof of Victorian life, magic, pirates and general chaos.
More serious. Jane Smileys newest - Lucky was excellent.
I am in the boat of looking for suggestions, I need o get off the Social Media reading and into more in-depth reading. I am hoping that this thread will get me off my can and onto something different.
i 2nd good reads! you can also follow authors, make your own list of books that you want to read, and track your reading.
You should join Goodreads. It has lots of suggestions, and you can link up with friends, and see what they're reading. I also follow a fb group called Lost Without Books, and it has many suggestions, as well. It also helps getting out of your comfort zone with what you read.
I'm currently reading Lisa See's Dreams of Joy; Jessica Simpsons biography, and Next Level, by Lisa Sims, about working out and staying healthy through menopause. When I get bored with one, I move on to the other, but rarely will stop reading it completely, unless it's horrible.
Recently finished the 2007 book, "The World Without Us," which I wrote about to get my over-reaction out of my system. Now I'm reading a marvelous collection of interviews with Native American elders, "We Are the Middle of Forever." Fiction here on Substack: "In Judgment of Others," by Eleanor Anstruther and "An Interpreter in Vienna," by Kathleen Waller.
So that's really interesting -- I definitely want to check out the two fiction Substacks you mention. How do you like reading fiction in this format?
I don't love it, but I'm such an admirer of them, and of others like Nathan Slake and Ben Wakeman and Claudia Befu, that it's worth it.
PS - love your taglline. Is it new or am I that oblivious?
Thanks! It's actually been there for a little while, though it may have been different when you first signed up. I've changed it a time or two :)
Hi Terrell,
Love to hear what other are reading - I find many new books to add to my stack of reading. Just finished Challenger by Adam Higginbotham (excellent book on the Challenger disaster), and My Day with the Cup by Jim Lang (about the Stanley Cup - I'm an avid hockey fan). Currently into Alice by Stacy Cordery (Teddy Roosevelt's daughter); The Art of War by Sun Tzu; The Woman behind the New Deal (Francis Perkins). Also on the stack is the Powe Broker I read it in 1976, but after reading your comments I decided to read it again and The Rediscover of America by Ned Blackhawk (history o the native peoples of the US.
These sound great. I'm going to add Challenger and Alice to my Goodreads. I'm not sure I can read Challenger. I was only in 4th grade, but I remember to vividly that day. Roosevelts daughter was very interesting.
If you read Challenger, I'd be interested to hear your take on it
All of those sound great, Kenneth -- and, I hadn't ever heard of most of them! The Rediscovery of America sounds especially interesting -- have you already read that, and are set for a re-read?
I have just started it - I alternate reading about three books at a time. It is very thought provoking.
Ken
I’m trying to catch up on Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series before the new one hits shelves later this year. I’m also reading Nosy Neighbors right now — also a murder mystery — that made the Edgar Award finals. I like to pull new book ideas from the Edgars because I find those usually truly are the best mystery releases from that particular year.
Did you see the Amazon show based on Penny's books, Three Pines?
I did — I liked it but I didn’t think it was nearly as good as her books.
I love Louse Penny
These all sound good -- mystery is probably my favorite fiction genre. I've always wanted to check out Louise Penny, it always seems like she has a new one out whenever I visit the bookstore. Love your newsletter title, by the way!!
Thank you! Penny is one of my favorites, I highly recommend her.
We’re launching a new graduate program in my department at Baylor University in the fall (the MFA in Film & Digital Media), and I’ve been thinking a lot about student assessment in that program (and in general over the years, especially because I’m in a creative discipline). So this summer I’m reading Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead). It’s a book of essays about the concept of “ungrading,” what it is, why it’s worth pursuing, and various methods of implementation.
Hi, Chris, I recently heard about ungrading at a teaching innovation conference at my university. I'm glad to know about this book, will have to give it a look. I teach architecture and that's never fun to assess. Thanks!
Hi Julie! I just started it myself. I’ve only read the introduction and one chapter but already finding it very interesting and feeling like there’s some stuff here I’ll want to implement. I’ve experimented with giving students more control over what is assessed and what we do in classes in the past, with some success. It feels like the right time to do this as we’re starting a new program and I’m on the midst of designing a new workshop course to kick things off. I really want them to take ownership of their own progress and rely less on my grading. I’d still give them notes and feedback, of course. But the grades would be de-emphasized!
I loved upgrading….even within the confines of the “give a grade” system we have all the way through K-12 and beyond, it is so great to think about how the feedback up to that point can actually encourage learning. Keep trying at the college level and we will do the same K-12!
Appreciate the encouragement! Thank you!
That’s how the prof who presented about it approached it, too. The sad thing is, they still had to give a letter grade at the end because the university requires it for GPA. Which led me to wonder if the students would see the whole thing as moot.
That’s the frustrating part, for sure. Ultimately I’ll have to do that as well.
Really interesting, Chris! Are you a film professor there?
Yes, I’ve been teaching film there for about 20 years now. And I’m currently the department chair.
LOVE the photo...I've been on a Leif Enger kick as he's coming to my fabulous local Indie bookstore on Sunday. I recently re-read Peace Like a River which was even better on the second reading. Enger (for me) is equal parts Frank Capra (optimism and a little bit of magic), Bill Bryson (humor), a dash of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (the movie)--"yarns" written in absolutely beautiful prose...
He sounds amazing! I've never heard of him, but definitely will have to check him out. Thanks for the rec, Diana!