It’s officially summer break! This is my third year teaching, but my first two years were at a year-round school, so this is my first “summer off.” I have a part-time job lined up, but it will leave me with plenty of time to get back into posting reviews. I SUCKED at posting on here over the last couple months, so I do apologize, but now I’ll have time to catch up in my reading goals.
I also want to spend more time this summer with my own writing. I have a story in the works that I started writing….a year ago? Maybe? It came from a dream I had over 5 years ago, and lately the dream has come back in a different form, which tells me it’s time to buckle down and get it out there. Luckily, I have the support and encouragement of some of my good dream-friends.
How does this relate to the blog? Well, whenever I write my “serious” stuff (aka, not like the book I’m working on cleaning up right now, the book that I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2014, the book that I made really “easy” for myself), for some reason I always envision my protagonist as a caramel-colored woman, like the Indian actress Aishwarya Rai, and have always done since I was pretty young. This mental protagonist arises unbidden and feels right, and I don’t know why, so I need to possibly explore it more.
But I’m looking forward to both my reading and writing process this summer! And I have a whole host of diverse authors and issues in a stack of ARCs that I borrowed from our school librarian who recently returned from Book Expo America 2016 (so jealous).
Hope you have fun reading this summer too! What are YOU planning to read?
I’m looking to get back on track with my Read Harder Challenge this summer!
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