Summer Reading

                                                           

Let's get something straight. I love being a teacher librarian. It is definitely the coolest job I've ever had and I currently work my dream job, but I'm not so old that I don't still have dreams of other professions. One dream is getting paid to read and review children's, young adult, and teen fiction. The older I get, the more I realize that we actually might not ever grow up. I dream on the regular about future possibilities and reinventing myself. Maybe this is part of the human experience or maybe this speaks more to my own personality. 

Since I still love working in a school environment, and I don't even know how to begin making a living as a professional reader/writer, I'll have to figure out a way to keep this blog updated more often. Writing makes me happy and trading in my current job for a new adventure while having a mortgage payment terrifies me.

So here I am, three weeks into my summer vacation with a seemingly endless pile of books for pleasure reading, and right now, summers off seems like the real reason I became a teacher. Of course, I became a teacher for other more noble reasons but really, by the time May and June hit, every teacher entered the profession because they have earned that massive vacation that seems as if it will never arrive. Any teacher that says otherwise is lying to you!

I haven't read anything worth writing about yet, but I'm about to start I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. I've heard amazing things about it. I'm looking forward to sitting next to a pool with it and hopefully writing about it later this week!