November--What are you reading?

[Pielorinho]

And it's not just language (syntax, vocabulary, even shades of meaning) but it is also culture, technology level, and other hidden assumptions implicit in the text.

Definitely true. Hey, Eric! Sometime I might see if I can pick your brain regarding your experiences as a children's librarian: my professors in the children's lit section of my program leave something to be desired, and I'd really be interested in hearing any wisdom you have on conducting lessons with books.

Today I did a readaloud with my second-grade class (where I'm observing) on The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish, one of Neil Gaiman's charmingly weird children's books. The lesson was about how to use dialog to advance a story, although I used much simpler words for it. I think it went well, and designing a lesson plan around it certainly helped me read the book in greater depth.

Daniel

 

[WargamerX]

Feast of Crows in coming out next week?!?

Where did you find that out?????

I guess I'll be re-reading the other books...

 

[ShrinkyLink]

'The Deed of Paksenarrion' by Elizabeth Moon.

I love Paks.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Tribunal, a Roman first person narration. Pretty good so far.

 

[Starman]

Well, I finished my reread of A Storm of Swords reread a few days ago, so I'm reading V for Vendetta while I wait for AFfC. It is excellent!

 

[Pants]

A Feast for Crows. Yes. Finally, after 5 frelling years, I have it. 7, if you count the time I waited between CoK and aSoS.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Just started reading Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow today.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Just picked up Running From The Deity by Alan Dean Foster a Pip & Flinx novel.

 

[amethal]

Just started reading Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow today.

That's the book that started me on Scott Turow.

I found it very hard to get into it, since its more or less written in the present tense.

Since then I've found all his other books hard to get into as well because they all turn out to be about something completely different to what I thought they were about.

My favourite one is probably Pleading Guilty.

EDIT - and Footfall is getting a lot better now the aliens have turned up properly. I think I might skip all the little Earth based side stories, although I don't normally.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I'm about 40 pages from the end, but so far I'd have to say The Stars My Destination is an amazing book. God this needs to be a movie!! It would be like a SciFi version of Payback. Gully Foyle is just a great character. If you enjoy classic Sci-Fi I can't reccomend this enough. It's short but with enough meat to be a wonderful read.