This past week was unusually smooth for me. Kids at school were reasonably calm for spring time, getting their work done, and a class that has really struggled aced a big test. They were proud and so was I! Those kind of victories are why I teach. Last night I saw an excellent movie, A United Kingdom. In it, “Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.” David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike played the couple beautifully. I highly recommend it! (View trailer.) On the reading front, it was a really, really good week. Maybe the best of the year, so far.

Last Week’s Reads:

Within two days, I finished two of the best books I’ve read all year! I listened to the audio version of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid and loved both the story and his narration. This is a book I’d been a little leery about reading because it has an element of magical realism in it, which generally isn’t one of my favorite literary devices. But, I loved the way Hamid used it in Exit West. The story itself was amazing and so relevant to the world we live in. …

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