The Road. A dude travels around the country getting wasted and banging high school girls. The end.

Most of them, tbh. There are so many great books out there I want to read, it’s hard for me to devote time to rereading a book unless I absolutely love it.

I often hear the “school ruined reading” or “school ruined this book” bit. I can’t commiserate. I never felt that way. I feel like I did have to read a few books I disliked, but I blamed the book, not the teacher. I loved finding new books in school. This was especially true when I got to AP English and had to read The Iliad, Jane Eyre, Grapes of Wrath, King Lear, A Thousand Acres, Invisible Man, etc.

Now I’m a middle school ELA teacher. Sadly, we don’t teach novels anymore. We teach short stories, poems, informative articles, etc.