1. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Seeing as how it’s the school year again, my reading brain has returned to a state of near collapse. To counter this effect I am rereading The Great Gatsby, which is beautiful but does not force me inexorably toward the end, because I already know the [...]
Entries from September 2008
14 September 2008
My Own Private What?
Jeff and I spent last night watching My Own Private Idaho. Well, I watched and graded papers (ahh, the school year). The moment it started I knew I would want to watch again, just to take in the beauty. After finishing it, I wanted to watch it again in order to put the miscellaneous pieces [...]
2 September 2008
A journey back in time
Because I don’t think Jeff and I have enough books in our house, I brought another big box of books home with me the last time we went back to Pittsburgh and Ohio. Oops. A lot of them are headed into my classroom library–The Secret Garden, Farenheit 451, a bunch of VC Andrews and Joan [...]
