I Got To Tell It!!!!!

So people, I got something to tell, and I must tell it NOW.

Here it is......

I got fire shut up in my bones.....

and the fire was caused by Toni Morrison and.......

this awesome novel: Song of Solomon!!!!

I did a sigh as soon as I got that out.

I have read Song of Solomon so many times, and every time that I read it, the urgency that I feel is unreal: I think about it, and I think about, and I think about, and I see something new every single time, and then I have more to think about, and I think about, and I think about........

I am so blessed that I teach Advanced Placement (AP) English, and I get to teach whatever novel that I want  to, and you know that I start every year with Song of Solomon. The discussions that this novel generates is enough to make me need to run around the school at least five times just to squelch some of the excitement that is "shut up in my bones."

Last week, one of my students asked me a question about breastfeeding in relationship to one of the main characters in Song of Solomon who was breastfeed until he was "old enough to talk, stand up, and wear knickers." This lead into a discussion about the woman on the cover of Time Magazine who was breastfeeding her child who was "old enough to talk, stand up, and wear knickers."

I mean, I have a whole classroom full of people to discuss one of my favorite novels with for at least three weeks or until every last one of us get sick and tired.

And every single time I read and discuss this novel, I am given something new to think about....Oh, how BLESSED I am...

Now, I am on chapter four of Song of Solomon, and it's literally like "fire shut up in my bones." As I am reading it and writing this blog, my heart is racing, and I almost want to cry tears of joy that Toni Morrison wrote this incredible book that has taken my love for reading and teaching to a whole 'nother level.

Wow, if you have not read it yet, you MUST......

Please read this novel.....OK

And if you have read it before, Please read it again......

My heart is on fire........

I got to go; Song of Solomon is calling my name!!!!

By the way listen to Toni Morrison talk about Song of Solomon...

"Ain't she amazing?" or in my teacher voice "Isn't she amazing?"

I just had to tell it.........