In this episode, I share with you the first page of my to-read book pile. 

[e]nglish language arts teachers are generous, selfless people who dedicate all their time and energy to their students, sometimes at the cost of time with family and self-care. So much of that is due to the heavy teaching load and extra curricular expectations of teachers. What, then, happens to our own reading and writing lives? How are we to share new voices in literature and stories from our own writing lives when they are dormant during the school year? 

Well, in this podcast, I bring the literature to you. Perhaps you will meet a new author today or be reintroduced to an old friend. In any case, let these words nurture your love of story and celebrate the language and art of these authors' craft.

• Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye  (1970)
• Jasmin Warga's Other Words for Home (2019)
• Mariko Tamaki's Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (2019) 
• Lisa Moore Ramée's A Good Kind of Trouble (2019)
• Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House (2019)