You read.
You've shelved novels and essays and memoirs and nonfiction texts. There are so many titles that were picked for your book club, that came up at dinner parties with your friends, that you recommended to your family members.
Maybe your home is full of them. Shelves and shelves and shelves of ideas loved and consumed. From classics to new releases, intellectual challenges to beach reads.
Here's what I'm thinking: You should send them to me.
I don't want them for myself. I want them to fill my classroom. I want my students to be impossibly compelled to read them, to have that irresistible urge to READALLOFTHETHINGS -- the one I get when faced with the bookstore's beautifully organized table collections: "Books Everyone Should Read" or "Summer Reading" or "Staff Picks" ... every. time.
I don't have specific titles or types in mind. My students are as diverse as the bookshelves you can imagine. They grapple with complex ideas. They care about important issues. They're curious and thoughtful about the world we all live in. They read at high school and college levels.
I'll take one or ten or a hundred books.
Will you do it? Will you send an envelope or a box my way?
(Will you remember that media mail is awesome?)
Tell me how I can help.
Then let me thank you.
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