Ashley Cornelius

I really loved reading it in terms of seeing this really new dynamic, but I don't think it's for everybody because it is a very, it's a slow paced.

The characters by the end are not very lovable.

So I'm glad I read it, but I don't know if I'm like going to recommend it to a lot of other people.

Mostly, it's all about setting up these fun reading experiences for the summer because

Once I can close my classroom door and go into summer, I guess the way that I make it through all of the hard work that's going to happen for the last few weeks of school is having this set up, this expectation of all these fun things that I get to read and do over the summer.

And so I'm really looking to have some books that I'm excited about reading and also maybe setting up some kind of reading experiences or some kind of like maybe retreat types of things that I can have organized and ready to go for the summer.

I'm not doing any big traveling in the summer.

And so I want to set up something where I'm just like once a week, I'm going to do this thing.

But that's where I get fuzzy.

But something that I'm getting either out of the house or like meeting up with people and just reading in a different situation to make it a little bit more special, a little bit more of an escape from any chores and stuff that are around the house.

But trying to set up these experiences.

over the summer.

And I'm trying to navigate that.

Like, what would that look like for me?

What is a way that, one, that I won't make it so complicated that I'd never do it because I tend to do this where I like really go crazy.

I could do this and this and this, and then it's like too much and I don't do it.

So keeping it simple, but also unique to the summer.

For sure.

I think location is super important.

And again, and like the food thing, when I was reading Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell, I found some cherry Coke in the fridge and I just sat outside like watering and it was just like beautiful.