#also I spent half my morning updating my classroom library wishlist

[daemonmatthias]

Had a student today randomly message me asking for book recommendations because all the suggested summer reading books "look boring". Clearly, nothing in the world makes an English teacher happier, so I asked a few questions and recommended her the Sunshine Girl trilogy (McKensie), the author Lois Duncan, and The Night Circus (Morgenstern).

And then I sat there... tried to talk myself out of it, failed miserably, and made a Google form that asks simplified versions of the questions on my book rec service's profile.

But then! I wanted to test it. I'd never used the "email me about new submissions" feature and wanted to be 100% sure that it was working before I posted it to everyone because no way in hell am I actively monitoring that form. So I messaged a student that frequently exchanged book recs with me before the closure and she volunteered to test the form. 1. It worked; 2. Obviously, I sent her the appropriate recommendations in exchange for her time. I suggested for her the Caraval trilogy (Garber), the Great Library series (Caine) and Spinning Silver (Novik).

And I posted it to Google classroom with a fun/catchy little announcement post.

Within the hour I got an email saying I had a new submission!! This student likes a lot of horror and requested something she could get lost in, so I recommended Gideon the Ninth (Muir), Circle of Stones (Fisher), and Abarat (Barker).

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