The Sunday Post #46 – Weekly Wrap-up
Welcome to my Sunday Post. Thank you to Kimba over at The Caffeinated Reviewer, who is hosting this weekly event. It is the perfect opportunity to share what happened here on my own blog, as well as some of the happenings elsewhere in the Blogosphere.
This week has been a little hectic, getting the last of the supplies we need for the kids who are going back to school tomorrow, and me getting ready for my two-week substitute stint. I made so many photocopies on Friday it’s not even funny! I had to make some even of the course-books so that we can start working immediately, even before the students have the time to go purchase their books. I also picked up Roald Dahl’s BOY: Tales of Childhood, which two of the classes I’ll be teaching are going to read, and Stephen King’s The Body, which seems to have been written for people who are learning English. We also had a b-day party for a friend, and tried the best we could to get into the correct rhythm of sleep so everybody will be able to get up early tomorrow.
This week’s posts:
- [19 Aug] Waiting on Wednesday #59 – What We Left Behind
- [20 Aug] Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts #29 – Hot Head
- [22 Aug] Stacking the Shelves #97 BB&B #48
- [23 Aug] The Sunday Post #46
This week’s reviews:
- [17 Aug] Too Hot to Handle by Katie Rose ★★★★
- [18 Aug] The One Thing by Marci Lyn Curtis ★★★★★
- [19 Aug] Two Minutes by Dannika Dark ★★★★★
- [20 Aug] Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green, David Levithan ★★★★
- [21 Aug] Knight of Ocean Avenue by Tara Lain ★★★★
Elsewhere in the Blogosphere:
Grace @ Rebel Mommy Book Blog asks What Makes You Cry?
Lola @ Lola’s Reviews shares how she Shelves her Books, and she shares lots of beautiful book pictures, too!
Jeann @ Happy Indulgence has a great vlog about Diversity in Books, you should definitely check it out 🙂
Cait @ Paper Fury also has a wonderful post I Want Diverse Books that are Not About Being Diverse.
What have you been up to this past week? Don’t forget to leave me a link so I can come visit your Sunday Post as well.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you’ve enjoyed your weekend, and that next week will be filled with awesome!
About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms
Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
Twitter: limabean74
I can’t believe the kids are starting school already. My daughter starts on the 2nd and my son on the 8th.
I would have never guessed Stephen King would write a book for people learning English. You learn something new every day 🙂
I have to start getting the kids ready to wake up early…me too 🙁
Have a great week, Lexxie! ox
I know! This summer vacation just went so fast. Even if the kids were off for eight weeks.
There are different levels of the book, actually, Easy starts with only 200 headwords, Level 1 with 300 headwords etc, I am using the Level 5 2300 headwords for upper-intermediate students. I have no idea if it was SK himself who wanted the book to be this way, or if the publishing house thought it was a story that could be more easily simplified than others.
I’m not ready for the vacation to be over yet, that’s for sure. But at the same time, I’m happy for things to start again. Completely opposite feelings here 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Michelle!
I feel all the “getting ready” for school is ruining what is left of my summer! Urg! kids started sports practices and all! I didn’t know that about the Body 🙂
I agree, Daniela. I wish they would just get everything they needed at school 🙂 My boys have started their hockey practice a few weeks ago, but the girls don’t start with circus school until the first week of September 🙂
Twitter: kimbacaffeinate
Good luck tomorrow with getting the kids back into a routine and taking over the class for two weeks. Coffee..lots of coffee it is the elixir of life!
I know! I even have some extra coffee capsules for the break-room where I’m teaching 🙂 It’s impossible to get anything done without it 😉
Thanks so much for sharing my post Lexxie! Good luck with the substituting and getting the kids off to school 🙂 Have a great week ahead!
You’re welcome, Jeann 🙂 It was a great post, and I agree about books needing to be as diverse as life is.
I keep reading about people subbing, and it kind of make me want to again. I did it during college and a little right after graduating, but haven’t in a long time. Hope everything goes smooth for you guys.
I’m actually looking forward to finishing my degree so that I can just teach, Christy! When I get some long-term sub contracts, it’s great, but being called at 7am to teach a class at 10am without really having much information about the class is quite hard sometimes.
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Awk, thanks for linking to my post!! *flails* And good luck with your upcoming busyness! WOAH. SO MANY THINGS. 😀 I adore those memoirs by Roald Dahl. They’re really sad, though, because he got abused so much as a kid, but he writes so excellently I fully couldn’t put them down!
I love everything Roald Dahl, Cait, and while Boy may be sad, it’s always nice to glean some inside information to an author as well 🙂
Your post was golden this week, Cait, so of course I had to link to it!
What a busy week you´ve had 🙂 Her har barna gått på skole en uke allerede, og både trettenåringen og syttenåringen stortrives. I dag skinner heldigvis solen igjen, så det spørs om det ikke blir en badetur i ettermiddag. Håper uken som kommer blir fin for dere alle 🙂
Ja, ikke akkurat ferie, selv om det fremdeles var ferie 🙂 Bra at begge barna trives på skolen, Anette, det er utrolig viktig.
Håper dere fikk en badetur, og at dere får en fin uke alle sammen 🙂 Klem
Summer went by way to fast, it’s hard to believe kids are going back to school!
Have a great week!
Stormi
I agree! I’m not ready for the vacation to be completely over yet, Stormi 🙂
I can imagine that last week vacation is a bit hectic with making sure you have everything for the new school year and preparing for school to start. Switching sleeping rhythm ‘s is the worst, I hope it worked and everyone can get up early tomorrow. I hope you have a great week and good luck with that two week teacher substitute job!
Yeah, I agree, I hate having to get up early in the morning, but there really isn’t that much choice. I think we’re all ready, though, and the kids are finally starting to look forward to going back to school, as am I 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Lola.
Ah, the day before school. Isn’t it amazing how much prep is needed for them to go back? Good luck with the subbing, and hope the first day gos well. 🙂
Yeah, pens, notebooks, shoes for inside, paperclips, paper to cover their books with… *sighs* At least, now it’s all done 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Greg.
My daughters will be starting school on tuesday – I already dread the mountain of papers to fill in duplicate and the hunt for school supplies. At least, you’re ready, that’s good ! Summer is already over ? Can’t believe it… Have a good week, bises 😉
The worst might still be to come! We have to cover most of their book, too, even if they keep those books at school for most of the year :O Apart from that, I’m ready 🙂
Have a good week yourself, Iza. Bises
Oooh, I love school supplies shopping! I’m done with college and I actually miss going to a bookstore to buy a cute notebook/journal for my notes and some pad papers and pens, ughhh. Though, don’t you just wish summer would never end? lol!
I love school supplies and note-books and pens, too, Blessie, but I usually end up buying those all through the year 😀
I do kind of wish we still had at least a few more weeks of summer 😀
Busy indeed! Good luck with the kids stating classes and with your classes. That sounds neat using a Stephen King book to learn English. The school I sub at finished their school year on Friday and this week is their classroom preparation and professional development week before the new year starts.
Good luck!
The kids are actually finally looking forward to school starting again. The weather hasn’t been nice these past few days, so I guess that helps 😀
I sure don’t miss my son being small and having to go through that.(lol) Don’t you wish there was a way we could just hit a magic button and every copy we need would be done in an instant? Maybe someone will come up with a really neat invention, soon. Big Hugs and hope your week is as wonderful as you are! Hugs…Ro
I wish they could just receive all their school supplies / books digitally! It would make things SO much easier 😀
Thanks for stopping by, Ro.
How did the summer fly by so fast? I don’t have the standard “back to school” thing going on here, but I do recall what it was like. And my grandkids are off to school already. My second son took my oldest grandson to Berkeley on Friday, for his THIRD year there! How did that happen? LOL
And one of my granddaughters started her freshman year at University at San Diego.
My youngest grandson begins seventh grade.
My eldest son and his wife were here all of July, pretty much, and will return in early September. They go back to Europe (to Prague, this time) at the end of September.
My reading was sporadic this summer…but I did some bookshelf clearing. Here are MY WEEKLY UPDATES
I know, right? I guess it means we had a really good summer 😀 Kids definitely grow up fast!
Sporadic reading is to be expected with a visit from your son whom you don’t get the chance to see very often!
Thanks for stoping by, Laurel-Rain 🙂
Good luck tomorrow for all of you! I always love getting back to a routine but that’s a lot of new routine all at once. The sub job sounds like it’s going to be an adventure. Hope you have a great class! I read my first Dahl book at the beginning of the year and really loved it. I’m looking forward to reading more of his madness. Have a great week!
Thanks Katherine 🙂 It is definitely a lot of different routines all at once, but I’m sure it will all be good 🙂
Roald Dahl does write quite a bit of madness, and that’s also what I love about his stories!
I would have loved to have had Stephen King as part of the books we got in our English lessons (obviously I already know the language but spelling and the likes!!), we did get Tolkien and Orwell, King would have been brilliant.
I have done the whole going back to school this week so I know what you have been going through!
Have a lovely week!
True, it’s good that there are stories that can be adjusted for different levels of English, and reading always helps to improve spelling, grammar and vocabulary! We read Orwell when I was in high school, too, and I loved it when we read books that I would have picked up myself – not only books the teachers thought were amazing 😀
Its always crazy getting kids ready for school again!! Makes me grateful I don’t have to deal with that craziness yet, despite the fact I would love some kiddies of my own hehe. Hope life calms down for you soon.
LOL getting everything ready for school is a big production, but as soon as we’re in the rhythm again, things usually calm down quite a bit.
We started back to school last week and it was busy, busy! I do love this time of year though especially as Fall begins. With school starting and me helping with homework I am sure my reading time will be a bit limited so I’m trying to read as much as possible right now! Hope you have a great week filled with good books!
Yeah, reading will definitely slow down! But that’s OK, I had a fantastic summer reading-wise, and I’m sure I’ll be able to sneak in some reading here and there while waiting for other things to happen 🙂
Oh, I hate starting school again and getting back into the groove of things. Hope all is going well. I read Roald Dahl’s Boy – it’s quite interesting!
Roald Dahl’s way with words is amazing, and so far, I’m enjoying Boy. It’s nice to read something that’s more personal, even if his life wasn’t exactly a dance on roses.
I can’t believe school time is already here (or just around the corner for us). I feel like it snuck up on me. Good luck with subbing. Thanks so much for sharing my link!! Have a great week!
It definitely feels like the end of summer snuck up on us, too, Grace. I think it’s going to be OK as soon as we’re all used to the rhythm again, though.
Sounds hectic but full of upcoming fun. Good luck tomorrow:)
Thanks, Laura. It was hard for my youngest to get up this morning, but she was at school on time 🙂
Good luck to you and your kids for starting a new school year. It sounds like you are really prepared and the class sounds interesting. I hope you do well and get some time to relax. Have a great week!
Yeah, I think everything is easier when I’m well prepared and organized, I’m glad I have everything ready, and look forward to meeting the new students 🙂
I hope the kids’ return to school goes well Lexxie and that you enjoy your two-week stint!
I’m sure the time will fly!
Deb
Yeah, time usually does seem to fly when we get back into things in the fall, all of a sudden it’ll be Christmas :O
Ooh, I know how difficult it is to get back into a groove for school, Lexxie. I hope things went well this morning. I know YOU were prepared, so I hope your students were as well. 🙂 I look forward to hearing all about it. **BIG HUGS**
Things went very well! And I was armed with photocopies for my students, who were actually pretty studious 🙂
*BIG HUGS*