Dexter gets a lot of grief because of the ending, which I actually thought was just fine….most endings are terrible or overly sentimental anyway. It also gets a lot of grief because the last couple of seasons could not begin to measure up to its one perfect season with Trinity. But otherwise, I always found it a show that never promised much, but generally delivered. The book is oddly pitch perfect in this same way. It has a clear sense of scope. It could be […]
I loved this book
I picked this one up a few years ago and almost immediately had my copy stolen by a student who graduated with it in her possession. As a teacher, I tend to write that off as a good cause. Then I recently rebought it and started it reading it after seeing Dunkirk in the theater. It shares a few facile similarities….RAF…flying….British, but the stories are very different. We start with a narrator who is clearly being held by Nazis introduce herself and begin to talk […]
I don’t generally root for the bad guy…
..but maybe when you mess with the bull you get the horns, or some dumb stuff like that. I have a hard time being on the side of someone who does something that’s not even all that honorable or whatever making choices that piss off of the big bad boss and now they’re on the run. This novel is more or less just a novella, especially given that most of Jo Nesbo’s novels are 500 pages. It feels thin, and almost, and this wouldn’t surprise, […]
A Bevy of Education/Teaching Books Part 1
Every year as August starts to roll around and I get antsy about the upcoming school year, I read and in some reread various teaching texts to help me begin to think through my next school year. This year it’s in overdrive because I changed districts, schools, and courseload. All but one of my class this coming year will be brand new to me, and there’s a new pacing chart and new statewide curriculum to work through. Book 1 Learning in the Fast Lane – Suzy […]
On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves Or lose our ventures.
The reviews for this book tend to focus on how sad it is. And it is a sad book, but I don’t find it to be a dreary one. The world of this future is not a hellish landscape, although it can be bleak, but instead has a changed focus. This novel is the story of a girl named Fan who leaves her enclave of B-More, an agricultural and fish-farming conglomerate on the east coast in the middle-distant future. She leaves because her companion, her […]
Whew boy
So I recently received a subscription to “Open Letter” books as a gift. Their premise is translating and publishing a variety of texts from locally well-known writers and helping bring them to the English speaking reading world. This book was initially published in the mid-1960s, and has not been translated into English before, as far as I can tell. The whole book is the product of a narrator writing a book, but also resisting the idea of writing a book. It’s incredibly fractured as a […]
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