I was tagged by my myself/@mprosperossprite for this book tag game! I work as a K-12 tutor, so I modified a little.
the last book I read, finished with a student: Stuart Little by E.B. White. finished by myself: Network Effect by Martha Wells.
a book I'd recommend: Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, because I can't put Katabasis and Murderbot for every answer. I re-read this with a student, and I loved Bradbury's prose and found most of the plot/setting/dialogue ridiculously relevant to today. Seriously, there's more here than you maybe remember. If you want some (maybe) less well-know classics, there's also The Bridge of San Luis el Rey by Thorton Wilder, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and A Separate Peace by John Knowles (I guess this would probably appeal to dark academia fanatics?).
a book I couldn't put down: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. This is truly for the recovering former grad students among us. Also, I love Peter actually? And here I thought I would hate him when I started.
a book I've read twice or more: on my own: Protector of the Small quartet by Tamora Pierce (starts with First Test). I have always related the most to Kel of all of TP's heroines, and something about re-reading this always brings me back to myself. with students: Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods by Suzanne Collins. I am on a lifelong mission to make everyone read the Underland Chronicles, and this is the book from that series we have at work. But honestly, this series goes so hard for middle grade fiction: empathy and moral conflicts out the wazoo, opportunities to discuss class and race, and it's mostly about giant talking animals living under NYC, so kids seem to really take to it!
a book on my tbr: Daughters of Fortune by Isabel Allende. Look, if you know me, you know that a book that takes place in the 19th century US West during the gold rush and features a historically accurate* cast of racially diverse characters is the kind of synopsis I could never turn down! *I'm going off the back cover here and nothing else
a book I've put down: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (sorry, I know a lot of people loved this book)
a book on my wishlist: I just acquired Babel by R.F. Kuang, and that had been my #1 on the wishlist for a while (I explained the synopsis to my mom, once, and she said "well, I can see why that would appeal to you in particular")
a favorite book from childhood: Poison by Chris Wooding. Also, reiterating the PotS quartet by Tamora Pierce, because that's probably the most important.
a book I'd give to a friend: I have given a friend Alanna: the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce, because I thought it was right up their alley. Also, I might recommend Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood to a few of them. But it generally depends on the friend!
a book of poetry or lyrics (sorry I'm not much for poetry) play that I own: "Stuff Happens" by David Hare. It's about the Iraq War and um... different reactions to/multiple perspectives on it. We read "The Permanent Way" (about post-privatization train crashes in the UK) in my undergrad theatre classes and, looking back, this is probably the start of my love of multiple perspectives and outsider povs. I was so taken with it, I grabbed this new one to read soon!
a nonfiction book that I own: from grad school: Chinese in the Woods: Logging and Lumbering in the American West by Sue Fawn Chung (see previous comments about historically accurate racially diverse characters). for me: The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk.
what I'm currently reading: on my own, most recently picked up: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells. with students, three most recently picked up: 1) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 2) When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, 3) Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan.
what I'm planning on reading next, on my own: System Collapse by Martha Wells. with a student: Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver.
tagging @zarayndra @convergenceofchaos @carne-asada-fries @deemmemedieval and anyone else who wants to participate!
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