HalJreads

Hi im Halle, I love reading . My favorite genre is fantasy, Romantasy and History.

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The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)

The Raven Scholar (The Eternal Path, #1)

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The Jasad Crown (The Scorched Throne, #2)

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The Manningtree Witches

A.K. Blakemore

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves. England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices. Rebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the handsome young clerk John Edes. But then a newcomer, Matthew Hopkins, arrives. A mysterious, pious figure dressed from head to toe in black, he takes over the Thorn Inn and begins to ask questions about what the women on the margins of this diminished community are up to. Dangerous rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants have begun to hang over women like Rebecca--and the future is as frightening as it is thrilling. Brimming with contemporary energy and resonance, The Manningtree Witches plunges its readers into the fever and menace of the English witch trials, where suspicion, mistrust, and betrayal run amok as a nation's arrogant male institutions start to realize that the very people they've suppressed for so long may be about to rise up and claim their freedom.

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The Faerie Morgana

Louisa Morgan

In this atmospheric and bewitching novel, Louisa Morgan reimagines the story of Morgan Le Fay, one of the most enigmatic and powerful women in Arthurian legend. To the other priestesses of the Nine, a powerful council at the Lady’s Temple, Morgana is haughty and arrogant as she performs feats of magic no human should be capable of. Rumors start that she must be a fearsome fae. To King Arthur, Morgana is a trusted and devoted advisor, but his court is wary of her and her prodigious talent at divination. But his wife sees Morgana as a rival and a malevolent witch. To Braithe, Morgana’s faithful acolyte, she is simply the most powerful priestess Camelot has seen. Morgana doesn’t know why she’s so different from everyone else, and she doesn’t much care. But when she aids Arthur to ascend the throne before his time, she sets off a series of events that will change everything Morgana believes about her power.

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What's Your Reading Identity?

Every school year, I try to make a love of reading visible in my classroom. I don’t assign reading outside of class as homework like reading logs, but I try to engage with it in a way that might make students choose it on their own.

By prepubescent ages, students usually have pretty set opinions about reading. A lot of it comes from feeling like they’re not good readers, that reading isn’t interesting, or that they would rather be doing literally anything else.

And I haven’t done this yet, but I like to do a check-in at the end of the year to see if those opinions shift, which will happen soon.

But I also want to know from all of you:

When did you become a reader? Were you always a reader as far back as you can remember? If it happened later, what changed it for you, a book, a phase, a moment?

For me, I can't remember a time I didn't have my nose in a book, outside of when life may have gotten a bit hectic. But, reading has always been an escape for me, a space for joy and wonder.

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