Rebekah Buchanan

Rebekah Buchanan

Teacher, writer, researcher

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My Lists of 2018

I love lists. They might be one of my favorite things to create. Lists of things I need to do for the day/week/month/year. Lists of things I’ve completed. Checking off each box once it’s done is a wonderful sense of accomplishment. Since it’s the new year, it’s all about lists. People are reflecting on what they’ve done the past year. They are thinking about what they want to do in the year to come.

I’ve kept a few lists for 2018. My Apple Watch refuses to tell me how many total steps I took or miles I walked (fix that Apple), so I can’t report on that. But, I can tell you how many books I read and how many films I saw in the theatre. And, even though I’m still adding to it, I can tell you about my Rover travel so far. So, without further ado, here are my lists:

Rover List for 2018

  • 61 Days Teaching
  • 33 Schools Visited
  • 2 Fagforums (Teacher Workshop Days)
  • 2 Prisons visited
  • 19 Planes
  • 14 Trains
  • 2 Ferries (to get to schools)
  • Countless number of busses
  • 53 Days in Hotels
  • 1 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

Other Travel for 2018

  • 3 new countries
  • 4 flights
  • 2 trains

71 Books Read in 2018 (in order of reading them) (Some I’ve read before but most are new)

  1. The Parker Inheritance—Varian Johnson
  2. The Great Shelby Holmes Meets Her Match—Elizabeth Eulberg
  3. Ramona Blue—Julie Murphy
  4. A Wrinkle in Time—Madeline L’Engle
  5. The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band—Michelle Cruz Gonzales
  6. Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carslie Indian School Football Team—Steve Sheinkin
  7. You Bring the Distant Near—Mitali Perkins
  8. The Incorrigible Children of Aston Place: The Mysterious Howling—Mary Rose Wood
  9. Everybody Writes—Ann Handley
  10. Midnight Without a Moon—Linda Williams Jackson
  11. Meddling Kids—Edgar Cantero
  12. The Girl in the Well is Me—Karen Rivers
  13. Reality TV—Jim Kraszewoki
  14. 13 Reasons Why—Jay Asher
  15. Book Love—Penny Kittle
  16. The Great American Foot Race—Andrew Speno
  17. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe—B.Y. Suarez
  18. Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World—Dahlia Schweitzer
  19. The Exact Location of Home—Kate Messner
  20. Jennifer Lewis: The Mother of Black Hollywood—Jennifer Lewis
  21. Breakout—Kate Messner
  22. Dinner in Camelot—Joseph Esposito
  23. When Dimple Met Rishi—Sandhya Menon
  24. Flavor and Soul: Italian America and it’s African American Edge—John Gennari
  25. Bad Girls with Perfect Faces–Lynn Weingarten
  26. Ghost—Jason Reynolds
  27. Ugly Prey—Emilie Lucchesi
  28. Long Way Down—Jason Reynolds
  29. Patina—Jason Reynolds
  30. A Visit from the Good Squad—Jennifer Egan
  31. Sunny—Jason Reynolds
  32. The Untold Journey: The life of Diana Trilling—Natalie Robins
  33. Before I let Go—Marieke Nijkamp
  34. History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s—MJ Rymsza-Pawlowska
  35. UnWind—Neal Shusterman
  36. Miles Morales: Spider-Man—Jason Reynolds
  37. Baby-Sitters Club: Dawn and the Impossible Three (#5)—Ann M. Martin, Illustrated by Gail Gallegan
  38. Nimona—Noelle Stevenson
  39. People Like Us—Dana Mele
  40. UnWholly—Neal Shusterman
  41. Where’s My Fortune Cookie—Phil Proctor
  42. Diet and the Disease of Civilization—Adrienne Rose Bitar
  43. The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place—Alan Bradley
  44. A Complete Lowlife—Ed Brubaker
  45. Counting Thyme—Melanie Conklin
  46. Moxie—Jennifer Mathieu
  47. Fierce: A History of Leopard Print—Jo Weldon
  48. UnSouled—Neal Shusterman
  49. Wildman—J.C. Geiger
  50. UnDivided—Neal Shusterman
  51. Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge—Becky Aikman
  52. The Bat—Jo Nesbo
  53. Granted–John David Anderson
  54. Lies You Never Told Me—Sarah Donaldson
  55. How to be Famous—Caitlin Moran
  56. The Woman Who Smashed Codes—Jason Fagone
  57. Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and an Undercover Adventure of a Lifetime—Ron Stallworth
  58. A Sky Full of Stars—Linda Williams Jackson
  59. That’s Not What Happened—Kody Keplinger
  60. Mexican Whiteboy—Matt de la Pena
  61. Lethal White—Robert Galbraith
  62. Monday’s Not Coming—Tiffany Jackson
  63. We Signed Away Their Lives—Kari Torjesen Malcolm
  64. This Story is a Lie—Tom Pollock
  65. Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary—Martha Brockenbrough
  66. Beastie Boys Book—Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
  67. More of Me–Kathryn Evans
  68. Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall—Tim Mohr
  69. Unearthly Things—Michelle Gagon
  70. Becoming—Michelle Obama
  71. A World Below—Wesley King

27 Movies of 2019 (that I saw in the Theatre. Norway took a chunk out of my movie viewing)

  1. Ferdinand
  2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mississippi
  3. Paddington 2
  4. I, Tonya
  5. The Post
  6. Hostiles
  7. Black Panther
  8. Peter Rabbit
  9. Game Night
  10. A Wrinkle in Time
  11. Sherlock Gnomes
  12. Ready Player One
  13. Rampage
  14. Avengers: Infinity War
  15. I Feel Pretty
  16. Solo: A Star Wars Story
  17. The Incredibles 2
  18. Jurassic World
  19. Ocean’s Eight
  20. Hotel Transylvania 3
  21. Teen Titans, Go!
  22. BlackKklansman
  23. Venom
  24. Bohemian Rhapsody
  25. Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald
  26. Once Upon a Deadpool
  27. Mary Poppins Returns

I’ll continue these lists, and maybe more, in 2019. What are you making lists of? What memories do you collect?

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