Rebecca's Reading Rants and Raves

  Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington My rating: 3 of 5 stars  (3.5) This is a book that is very much "of its time" as one might ex...

  Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan D. Blum My rating: 4 of 5 stars Another excellent ...

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney My rating: 4 of 5 stars 3.75 I started this book in August and then I put it down. Peter and Ivan did not im...

Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop by Jesse Stommel My rating: 4 of 5 stars Jesse Stommel is (and has been) one of the most...

  Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It by Joshua R. Eyler My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a great pr...

  Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera My rating: 4 of 5 stars A timely read, the book offers a "hero's journey...

  Elsewhere: A Memoir by Richard Russo My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked this up randomly as someone had offloaded a bunch of Russo's ...