Monthly Archives: June, 2008
Summertime
Like many teachers, I am not taking the summer off from working! I just got back from a school trip which was wonderful, but was certainly work, and I have a fair amount of work for the next school year to tackle this summer. I have several books to read that I’ll be teaching for …
Rushdie
For the true voracious reader, there’s no better pleasure than discovering a new author, especially one with a sizeable back catalogue to dig into, and especially one who’s still writing! This past week, I read The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie and made just such a discovery. He reminds me of my favorite …
Quick Heartbreak
One of the links over there in my side bar is Paper Cuts, the blog of the book section of the New York Times, which I read regularly and always enjoy. There are a pair of threads recently that I’ve especially liked, one on poems of consolation for the lonely or heartbroken and another on …
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