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What's on your summer reading list?

Betty Ray Director of Programming and Innovation @Edutopia

What are you hoping to read this summer? Here's my list.

The Big Short - Michael Lewis http://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0393072231
My husband got this for his birthday and I've been stealing it unofficially now for a few days. It's the story of why and how the U.S. economy tanked in 2008. Hardly light reading, but his writing style is mercifully conversational.

A Happy Marriage - Rafael Yglesias http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Marriage-Novel-Rafael-Yglesias/dp/1439102309/
I heard a really great interview with the author on Fresh Air that made me want to read this. It's been gathering dust on my night-side table so I'm hoping to make some progress at the beach.

Education Nation - Milton Chen - http://www.amazon.com/Education-Nation-Leading-Innovation-Schools/dp/047...
A positive and uplifting book about education innovation by Edutopia's Exec Director Emeritus. (coming out in July)

What books are making their way to your summer reading list?

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Principal

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HIGHLY recommend Drive by Daniel Pink. If you liked A Whole New Mind, you'll like Drive. It'll provide plenty of food for thought!

Associate Professor of Secondary Education from Sioux City, IA

Share by reading together

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My wife and I have decided to turn off the television during the summer evenings and read the same book(s) together. (I buy two copies and when we're done, we'll send one to her sister in a long-term care facility who loves to read!) We're going to begin with "The Happiness Project, Or Why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read aristotle, and generally Have More Fun" by Gretchen Rubin. Then, we're going to read together, "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.

We find the experience to be very thought provoking and we have some wonderful discussions going to and from work as well as while we're fixing dinner together, etc., etc. Thus, I guess we have our own "book discussion club" designed for two young lovers who will celebrate their 44th wedding anniversary on June 11, 2010! :-)

Adding to my list!

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Thanks for adding to my "to read" list! Here are a few that I will be reading.

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabelle Allende

I'll also be catching up on a stack of professional reading!

Master Secondary Education/EnglishLanguage Arts

I'm starting my summer

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I'm starting my summer reading with "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy and continue with James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

High school teacher, technology coordinator, and Google Apps for Edu CT

Where will I find the time?

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I'm currently reading FreedomTM, the follow-up to Daniel Suarez's spectacular novel, Daemon. Next on my list is The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman's Newberry winning novel. Then I'm going to try out The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and its sequels. Finally I hope to round out the summer with some Christopher Moore (I haven't decided which ones).

Lots of Government Reading

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Teaching US History and Government has consumed my summer with a list of books in relation to those subjects. I am currently reading Bobby Kennedy's book, To Seek A Newer World. I am planning on finishing Cicero's On The Good Life after I finish up with the previous title. If you're interested in these topics I would also suggest reading Fareed Zakaria's books, they are easy reading and have great historical insight and application to current events and future debates.

Summer Reading

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I always select a number of books to generate answers to difficult questions that I received over the last school year. I am a US History and Government teacher so my reading list revolves around these topics. The election of 1968 has been an early topic of my reading over the last two weeks and will return to the classics including Cicero's On The Good Life, which John Adams references a lot in correspondence with John Quincy. If you are interested in topics relating to social studies I would suggest Fareed Zakaria's books. They are insightful, have great historical context, and offer great foresight.

Founder, Improve-Education.org

"34 important Books About Education"

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This a Listmania list on Amazon. Books that help explain the problems in the public schools. 34 short blurbs--you can read them in 3 minutes--will help you decide if you want to check out a book further.

http://www.amazon.com/34-Important-Books-About-Education/lm/R1XG8X2T4RZY...

loved The Help

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I gobbled up The Help. Such a wonderful book. You can get it cheap at Costco - or maybe you want to buy it at your neighborhood bookstore, if you're lucky enough to have one. Happy reading...

School Library Media Specialist for a K-4 Public School

suggestions for children's books....

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I'm a School Library Media Specialist and I'm hoping to read children's books over the summer so I can do more booktalks and informal readers' advisory. Any suggestions? I am going to start by reading Lightning Thief.

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