The Blackboard Jungle: Teachers’ Lives Outside of School

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Today, in the spirit of being a teacher, I’m offering up a short quiz: True or False Most teachers have lives outside of school. It is safe to assume that teachers, especially those with children, have had sex, or at least have heard about sex. Teachers can enjoy diverting hobbies in their spare time. Teachers [...]

Author Interview: Janet Evanovich

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She spent 10 years trying to write The Great American Novel and garnered a boxful of rejection letters along the way.  After shifting gears in the late 80s to try her hand at romance novels, this fellow Jersey Girl sold her first manuscript. 24 years and almost 40 books later, Janet Evanovich is a New [...]

Reading Cover to Cover

As a freshman, I learned that our high school yearbook had a section for seniors to write ‘blurbs’ with personal messages, quotes, and sports or club allegiances.  I poured over these blurbs, chock full of esoteric references and inside jokes, and began plotting. Over the next two years, I spent many a class period–usually math– [...]

Return to Sender: My Love of Snail Mail

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Recently, my sister and I caught an episode of Wheel of Fortune on television.  I’m more of a Jeopardy! girl myself, but my sister loves ‘the letters’ game so I settled in.  One of the puzzles fell under the category Event and had tons of tiles. By the time the player figured out the puzzle, [...]

Spring Fever=Spring Cleaning

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Spring has come to Chez Book, Line, and Sinker, and I’ve got reorganization fever.  With the house now in ship-shape, I took some time this afternoon to work on my woefully neglected book blog.  I updated my Crystal Ball (Upcoming Reviews) section and added my rating system back on to my sidebar–it had been hiding [...]