Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

 

 So, these change pretty frequently, but it's interesting to me to see what lists these books are on, because they're sometimes very specific and I dunno, I just like looking so now if you chose to click on this you're looking too. Let's go!  This is just in the order that they appear on Amazon.  First, Serial Killers With Cookies. That's... pretty straightforward. Someone gets kidnapped, there are serial killers, and there is murder. All right. Second, Spahn .   Okay, again, pretty straightforward. It's horror, in the Kindle store, and it is very much Literature & Fiction that is also horror. All right. Maybe one day this will be interesting.  Third, Iscariot .   Oh man, we've got some discrepancy in genre! I tend to classify this book more as Horror, just because like, they're in Hell, but Fantasy Adventure works too. Also, yes, Teen and Young Adult, that's what I write the most of.  Fourth, The Crucifixion of Craig Knox .  Yeah, it tak...

 

 So, I'm an English teacher, I have to do a lot of reading about teaching and pedagogy and all that shit, and the thing is, the real thing is, the thing that really hits me most of the time is not what is the point because I fucking know I'm having these juniors and seniors read A Clockwork Orange for my own pure amusement (and I will say, one of my juniors used nadsat correctly just, like, casually, so that was really fun), but why does there need to be a point.  I know, see, that school is supposed to be there to get you into college. That is, at least, what every damn public school in the US is trying to do, despite the fact that not everyone wants or needs to go to college. And let me tell you that the school I teach at is especially tiny and full of people who especially are not going to college. That is fine. These kids like and know machinery and farming and that is all right. They're not the kids I'm worried about. It's the kids that are genuinely bright and...

 

 

 So, as I think I may have alluded to at point or another in the past, I absolutely love a good Excel spreadsheet. I love it not for the usual, you know, calculations aspect, but because I love a good list and nothing makes as good of a list as an Excel spreadsheet. I have several spreadsheets, my favorite of which are the 'book wall' spreadsheet (just a list of the book wall), 'books 2021' (more detailed info on the books I've read in 2021), and 'creative income' (what's selling? when? buy my books).  So, another thing about me is that I absolutely do not have the patience for a bullet journal. I like my regular journal, and my regular separate to-do list. I have a bullet journal in a thousand notebooks across the apartment; it's like when people try to tell me 'have a lesson plan book' but in reality I do have every aspect to a lesson plan book, it's just in various notebooks and word documents Julie. But I've always been interested...