Summer Resting by Dr. Gretchen Rumohr

7/13/2022

Gretchen Rumohr is Chief Curator of YA Wednesday. She serves as a professor of English and department chair at Aquinas College, where she teaches writing and language arts methods. She is also a Co-Director of the UNLV Summit on the Research and Teaching of Young Adult Literature. She lives with her four girls and a five-pound Yorkshire Terrier in west Michigan.

Summer Resting by Dr. Gretchen Rumohr

After a few weeks of work and travel in June, after yardwork and laundry and emptying the dishwasher night and day, I am taking a week or two OFF. Off, I tell you! My girls and I are headed this very moment to Manistee, where we will enjoy lake time, campfires, and hobo pies. And then we will head to Cadillac to see brother (and fellow YA Wednesday contributor) Luke Rumohr for a few days of boating, hot tubbing, and discount store shopping. We will soak in all of the things we love about Michigan summers, staying up late and sleeping late and barbecuing things on the sunny deck. And we will rest. Do you think I have everything I need in my trunk? I sure hope I do, because I don’t have another inch to spare.

Wait! I forgot! There are just three more things I need to add…

The next week or two, I will enjoy my family, enjoy the weather, enjoy Michigan beautiful, and of course READ! This is what is on my list–and why.

I know I’m behind the times because I haven’t yet read In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner. In my defense, I let my father borrow my copy first (which he devoured immediately)--now it’s my turn! As with The Serpent King, I look forward to Zentner’s rich prose, realistic and heartbreaking storytelling, strong sense of place (especially rural place, as Chea Parton’s Literacy in Place has explored).

But yet! I am AHEAD of the times because I have my hands on Twin Cities by Jose Pimienta and it is a gorgeous book. Flipping the pages, I note realistic urban landscapes of Calexico–a border town–and a boy-girl twin dynamic as each twin decides whether to attend school in Mexico or in the U.S.--and contends with changes in their relationship as they grow.

And The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson will be my perfect beach read. After all, it takes place in the summer, celebrates friendship, and keeps us in suspense with its thrilling murder mystery. I’m ready for it!

So–what is on your “resting” reading list? Whatever is in your TBR pile, happy reading!

Dr. Steve Bickmore
Creator and Curator

Dr. Bickmore is a Professor of English Education at UNLV. He is a scholar of Young Adult Literature and past editor of The ALAN Review and a past president of ALAN. He is a available for speaking engagements at schools, conferences, book festivals, and parent organizations. More information can be found on the Contact page and the About page.

Dr. Gretchen Rumohr
Co-Curator

Gretchen Rumohr is a professor of English and writing program administrator at Aquinas College, where she teaches writing and language arts methods. She is also a Co-Director of the UNLV Summit on the Research and Teaching of Young Adult Literature. She lives with her four girls and a five-pound Yorkshire Terrier in west Michigan.

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Evangile is a native of Kigali, Rwanda. He is a college student that Steve meet while working in Rwanda as a missionary. In fact, Evangile was one of the first people who translated his English into Kinyarwanda.

Steve recruited him to help promote Dr. Bickmore's YA Wednesday on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media while Steve is doing his mission work.

He helps Dr. Bickmore promote his academic books and sometimes send out emails in his behalf.

You will notice that while he speaks fluent English, it often does look like an "American" version of English. That is because it isn't. His English is heavily influence by British English and different versions of Eastern and Central African English that is prominent in his home country of Rwanda.

Welcome Evangile into the YA Wednesday community as he learns about Young Adult Literature and all of the wild slang of American English vs the slang and language of the English he has mastered in his beautiful country of Rwanda.

While in Rwanda, Steve has learned that it is a poor English speaker who can only master one dialect and/or set of idioms in this complicated language.

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