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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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Toddson - Jun 15, 2011 12:26:41 pm PDT #15271 of 28333
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I'm hoping some of the fiction trends are running themselves into the ground. I was on a site and saw an ad for a book that starts off with "werewolf terrorists" and "a warlock cop". um, er, I don't think it's comedy

And, continuing the trend that started with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - and continued with Jane Eyre, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility, Abraham Linkcoln and Queen Victoria as vampire/demon slayers, and Shakespeare Undead - someone has done one on Tom Sawyer; can't remember if it was zombies, vampires, or what.

Polter-Cow - Jun 15, 2011 12:33:23 pm PDT #15272 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I also saw The Meowmorphosis, in which the narrator wakes up as a kitten.

Volans - Jun 15, 2011 1:02:45 pm PDT #15273 of 28333
move out and draw fire

What Jessica said! I remember reading in some education journal that grammar and math use the same part of the brain, and I thought, "Well, duh."

But I've never been able to convince either mathy types nor wordy types of that.

Edited. DYAC.

Laga - Jun 15, 2011 1:08:07 pm PDT #15274 of 28333
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

That makes sense but I can see why people would be hard to convince. Grammar feels like it comes naturally to me whereas I have to work at math. I can't look at an equation and tell something is wrong (even if I'm not sure what it is) the way I can with a sentence.

Kat - Jun 15, 2011 1:09:29 pm PDT #15275 of 28333
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I love diagramming sentences. It makes English mathy!

And it makes it visual. It's not a great skill to teach kids in a world of limited time/maximum testing though.

Speaking of which, my students, age 17 and 18 (and occasionally 19 and one is 20) are having a problem with sentence boundaries. Fully 90% of errors are sentence boundaries. How the hell do I teach that crap?

lisah - Jun 15, 2011 1:51:39 pm PDT #15276 of 28333
Punishingly Intricate

Fully 90% of errors are sentence boundaries. How the hell do I teach that crap?

Lots of reading out loud? (Signed, Can't really teach anyone anything so who am I to say?)

Connie Neil - Jun 15, 2011 1:53:32 pm PDT #15277 of 28333
brillig

What do you mean by sentence boundaries? Where one should end them, and how to avoid run-ons?

§ ita § - Jun 15, 2011 1:54:11 pm PDT #15278 of 28333
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How close is too close? I vote for at least one space.

DavidS - Jun 15, 2011 1:54:40 pm PDT #15279 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This is why you need stone-word fences.

Sophia Brooks - Jun 15, 2011 1:56:13 pm PDT #15280 of 28333
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Good fences make good neighbors.

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