Reading surprising work

For yesterday's session of Literary Lunches, retired principal Ann Porter for read a book by an unlikely author: Madonna. The book was the Material Girl's Mr. Peabody's Apples, a retelling of a nearly 300 year-old-story about rumors and truth.
What followed the reading was a discussion about what's true and what's now as well as how perception has an impact on our realities.

Porter also read It's A Book by Lane Smith, a book which takes a look reading in the digital age.

Porter relayed  her views on reading and literacy, something shaped by her experience as a social studies teacher. "In order to be a good citizen you have to be able to read and think...," she said.