That annual ritual, the arrival of the Summer Reading List, is upon us.
On that subject, here’s is a copy of a letter to the editor by bookstore owner Sarah Pishko, of Prince Books in Norfolk, VA, which reminds school administrators and teachers that summer is the time to read with pleasure and without vexation. She relates the story of her son who “…was assigned “Mrs. Dalloway” for the summer before his 12th-grade AP English course. Yes, it was AP English, but yes, it was summer reading. I stumbled upon his journal: “Why am I reading about a woman looking at herself in her dresser mirror?” Why indeed is a 17-year-old boy reading Virginia Woolf during the summer?”
School librarians, if you’d like to share your summer reading lists (or abbreviated versions of same), add a comment to this story.
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