August was another great month for reading. I was able to slip in some extra books. Now I am in the process of writing book reviews among other things. With September, a new school year begins. The first days are long days as I help to get the year started. However, I have some extra days off during the year due to a schedule change. I am planning to devote time to some reading as well as working on a new podcast. The new podcast will be centered around my book, Read to Succeed.  Speaking of my book, I have also launched an author page on Facebook. Come join the conversation. This is what I have planned to read for September.

My September reading is another eclectic list. I will be reading a collection of essays, how to use social media as a writer, how to be a better educator, and a little history of the Wright Brothers.

Here is what is on my reading list for September 2019:

Social Media Just for Writers: How to Build Your Online Platform and Find and Engage with Your Readers by Frances Caballo

Having written a book, I am looking for ways to get more people to read it. It has been tough going so far. I am hoping to get some ideas from this book. 

Via Amazon:

You wrote your book and sold copies to family members, friends, and colleagues in the writing world. But you have goals that extend beyond a few dozen copies sold. Right? You want your book to soar and reach thousands, if not millions, of readers.

But how do you achieve your dream of selling books around the world?

With social media, you can build your platform and reach readers in locales you never imaged possible before. In this book, you’ll learn how to:

• Create a Facebook fan page and actively engage with your readers.
• Optimize your LinkedIn profile.
• Tackle Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat.
• Build and optimize Pinterest pinboards for SEO to maximize exposure of your books and blog.
• Improve your blogging.
• Excel on Twitter.
• Create images for your blog and social media posts.

The Best American Essays 2006 by Lauren Slater (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor)

I promised myself that I would read more fiction. I have found books of essays to be quite enjoyable. Where is my Norton Reader?

Via Amazon:

Edited by the author of Welcome to My Country and Prozac Diary, a new collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of the essay genre, including Adam Gopnik, Scott Turow, Marjorie Williams, Poe Ballantine, and others.

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

I have always been fascinated with aviation and awestruck by the feats of our aviation pioneers. But I have not done a lot of reading in-depth of these pioneers. It is time I started.

Via Amazon:

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot.

Orville and Wilbur Wright were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity. When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education and little money never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off, they risked being killed.

In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).

Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education by Thomas J. Tobin & Kirsten T. Behling

Universal Design for Learning is a powerful teaching and learning strategy. I am always looking for more examples to help strengthen my knowledge in this area.

Via Amazon:

Advocates for the rights of people with disabilities have worked hard to make universal design in the built environment “just part of what we do.” We no longer see curb cuts, for instance, as accommodations for people with disabilities, but perceive their usefulness every time we ride our bikes or push our strollers through crosswalks.

This is also a perfect model for Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework grounded in the neuroscience of why, what, and how people learn. Tobin and Behling show that, although it is often associated with students with disabilities, UDL can be profitably broadened toward a larger ease-of-use and general diversity framework. Captioned instructional videos, for example, benefit learners with hearing impairments but also the student who worries about waking her young children at night or those studying on a noisy team bus.

Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone is aimed at faculty members, faculty-service staff, disability support providers, student-service staff, campus leaders, and graduate students who want to strengthen the engagement, interaction, and performance of all college students. It includes resources for readers who want to become UDL experts and advocates: real-world case studies, active-learning techniques, UDL coaching skills, micro- and macro-level UDL-adoption guidance, and use-them-now resources.

That’s it for this month — I want to hear what good books YOU’VE read lately! Please share in the comments below.

If you missed previous months in 2019, you can still check them out:

January | February | March | April | May  | June | July | August

My Reviews for This Reading List

• Book Review: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Book Review: Social Media Just for Writers: How to Build Your Online Platform and Find and Engage With Your Readers
• Book Review: Book Architecture: How to Plot and Outline Without Using a Formula
• Book Review: Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education
• Book Review: The Wright Brothers

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