When I Should Be Studying

Reasons For Reading This Book: Jackie Oshry from The Toast and The Readheads has recommended this book multiple times. What really interested me from what she said about Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton was that Paris wrote it in the way she thinks and speaks. This may not sound different from any other memoir, but it is. Paris Hilton has ADHD and writes the book in the way her brain processes and expresses things. This is of particular interest to me because I also have ADHD. As someone who has had to learn to edit myself to prevent my ADHD from showing in my writing, I was curious to read what it is like for Paris to just write with little editing of the tangents, run-on sentences and jumping from story to story. I am a little too young to have really experienced Paris Hilton in her hay-day, but I did have general knowledge on her and her family but mostly just about recent events prior to reading her memoir. Content of This Book: Some may know her as an heiress, party girl, self

Reasons for Reading This Book: I was at the library looking in the stacks for a different book I was about to check out when I found the teaching/learning/studying section. As someone who loved school and has a mom who was a teacher and a sister who is about to start her first year of teaching, I started looking at the titles in this section. I have always been curious about school systems, types of learning and other topics related to education. The title Learning America by Luma Mufleh stood out to me on the shelf. I read the summary and knew that I would like it so I put it on my to read list and went back and picked it up a couple of weeks later. I was intrigued by this book because it intertwined two different topics, the American education system and refugees’. The summary peaked my interest and I couldn’t wait to start reading it.   Content of This Book: One evening Luma Mufleh, a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan- finds herself in a pickup soccer game w