So far I’ve read the first three sections of this book, and if I didn’t have to get up and go to work tomorrow I would stay up late and read more. It’s inspiring. It took me two and half hours to read the first 45 pages because I kept stopping to take notes and jot down ideas about things I’d like to teach and do in my English classes in the fall. While I don’t agree with absolutely everything that hooks postulates, what I’ve read so far has really enabled me to generate my own ideas about the way I want to conduct my classes in the fall and exactly what I want my students to get out their freshman English class. And I do feel that a lot of what she has to say can really be used to great benefit in the college classroom.

I’m all excited about school starting now. I can’t wait to start teaching again in the fall.