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This year (2025) finds me with 53 years of teaching “under my belt.” I have taught all levels from pre-K “(library lady” or “book lady”–volunteer) to juniors, seniors, and graduate students enrolled in my Advanced Writing class at the university where I have just completed 34 years. My first paying teaching job was junior high, and I spent 13 years with ages 12-13, the “difficult years.” I had some of the “funnest” experiences with this age group. When I was no longer the “young, fun teacher,” I taught in an elementary school setting before sixth graders went on to junior high, teaching language arts blocs, an assignment that was a “dream-fit” for me. After completing graduate school in my 40s, I went on to community college, then university teaching. This past fall I accepted a part-time teaching job at Apogee Gulf Coast Schools in its first year at the Alvin campus. After my Better Half died n 2022, I achieved a lifelong dream: opening a bookstore of my own, Rae’s Reads. A year later, I sold the house we had lived in for 47 years and moved into the bookstore. My goal is to circulate and repurpose books. Just as teaching is “in my blood,” so is a passion for reading, writing, libraries, and everything bookish. This blog will be open to anyone who loves books, promotes literacy and wants to “come out and play.”

GAME DAY READATHON

BIG GAME READATHON

My Better Half and I had already seen as much of the Super Bowl we wanted to from sneak peeks and all the hype and interviews leading up to the Big Game by yesterday. We decided instead to hold our own little Readathon. When I read Deb’s Sunday Salon post on her blog, Readerbuzz, there was Jenn, who had beat me to the punch! So, this morning I got up at seven, and began reading even before getting out of bed.

First things first–I read my two devotional books’ offerings for the day, Daily Wisdom for Women, and Hoda Kotb’s I Really Needed This Today. Both passages were short and a good way to start the day. Then I read a chapter from Jeremiah and finished the last two chapters of the book of Acts from the NIV version of the Bible.

IT’S UNDERWAY!

I AM DETERMINED to finish this fine, exciting, sci fi book soon!

I read on Dewey before going to bed last night, and Dewey is becoming sick and old. I almost dread the inevitable sad ending of this sweet book. It is so much more engaging than I had expected, making me wonder why it languished on my TBR shelf for so long.

I found it! It has been missing for a week; I thought I’d left it at the doctor’s office, but this morning as I searched for my slipper, I found it under the bed! Hooray!

The Firestarter’s Daughter, an award winner mentioned on Deb Nance’s Readerbuzz which I checked out from the library.

The Sunday Edition of The Houston Chronicle–READING IT FROM COVER TO COVER IS MY TRADITIONAL SUNDAY TREAT!

That is certainly enough to get me off to a good start. I read a chapter or two from one, then switch to another, interspersed with chores and daily activities; I know this seems like a scattered way to read, but it works for me.

THANKS FOR FOLLOWING MY BIG GAME READATHON ADVENTURES

RAE

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    Rae Longest

    Reblogged this on blogging807.

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    Carole

    I hope that your readathon has gone well! I am a football fan so I am watching the game while doing some blog hopping. Happy reading!

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    Deb Nance at Readerbuzz

    I’m eager to hear more about The City We Became. At first glance, I thought it was a nonfiction book about the creation of NYC!

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    1. Rae Longest Avatar
      Rae Longest

      LOL

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