Blogging Elsewhere

The theme at YA Outside The Lines is NaNoWriMo. My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters and Swoon At Your Own Risk are both NaNo novels!

Here's a link to my post: http://yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com/2017/11/i-believe-sydney-salter.html

Blogging Elsewhere

Hello! I'm over at YA Outside The Lines writing about why I write:

http://yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com/2017/02/i-dont-know-but-i-cant-not-write-sydney.html#comment-form

2017 Reading Project: Expanding My Worldview

For the past few years, I've focused about half the books I read into what I call Reading Projects. Sometimes I read to prepare for a trip - so that I understand the history and culture of the place I'm visiting. I have a lifelong project to read a biography about each American president. Right now I'm finishing up a series of books about the 1920s. Just for fun - and to catch a few classics I had missed along the way. I'm old enough to appreciate them more now :)

A few months ago my 17-year-old daughter came home from school, insisting that I watch the TED talk her English teacher had shown in class: The Danger of A Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Not only did the talk inspire me as a writer, it inspired me as a reader.





My 2017 reading project will be to read at least 12 books from non-European cultures. I also plan to include some history for context. I write a brief note about all the books I read on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/SydneySalter), but I plan to blog about my 2017 Reading Project.

I am so excited to learn more about people all around the world!

Blogging Elsewhere

I'm over at YA Outside The Lines today: http://yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com/2017/01/probably-not-worst-by-sydney-salter.html

The topic is the worst.