Comments on: Flashback July 2005 http://blogs.slj.com/teacozy/2012/07/18/flashback-july-2005/ by Elizabeth Burns Mon, 20 May 2013 23:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Liz B http://blogs.slj.com/teacozy/2012/07/18/flashback-july-2005/#comment-194999 Liz B Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:14:59 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/teacozy/?p=4640#comment-194999 Mary Ann, I adore the Norma Johnston books. Adore adore adore. Maybe I'll reread them this summer. Mary Ann, I adore the Norma Johnston books. Adore adore adore. Maybe I’ll reread them this summer.

]]> By: Mary Ann http://blogs.slj.com/teacozy/2012/07/18/flashback-july-2005/#comment-194905 Mary Ann Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:10:46 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/teacozy/?p=4640#comment-194905 Wow-it's a double-flashbook in reading about the Norma Johnston books. I had a newborn baby in late June of 2005, so I was reading a whole lot of nothing at that point and never read the initial post. THE KEEPING DAYS is one of my favorite books from childhood, one that I read again and again in middle and high school. I've never met another soul who has even heard of the books, let alone read them. When I returned to the classroom after an awful year as a school administrator, I found a lone book sitting on the shelf. It was a library discard of THE KEEPING DAYS, and I took it as a sign that I had made the right decision. I don't know why I never pursued the other series. I must track them all down to read over vacation! Wow-it’s a double-flashbook in reading about the Norma Johnston books. I had a newborn baby in late June of 2005, so I was reading a whole lot of nothing at that point and never read the initial post.

THE KEEPING DAYS is one of my favorite books from childhood, one that I read again and again in middle and high school. I’ve never met another soul who has even heard of the books, let alone read them. When I returned to the classroom after an awful year as a school administrator, I found a lone book sitting on the shelf. It was a library discard of THE KEEPING DAYS, and I took it as a sign that I had made the right decision.

I don’t know why I never pursued the other series. I must track them all down to read over vacation!

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