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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."
I loved Poisoner's Handbook. And everything Mary Roach has ever written.
Great Plague is a great book, but probably way too long for high school students unless you were doing a whole course just on the Spanish Flu.
In the Land of Invisible Women was not the best writing ever, but the story was good enough to carry it through. And it's a quick read.
I always liked Booker T Washington but recently some Tweeps I follow have had a passionate debate about the Washington vs. WEB DuBois that has me reconsidering some of his approaches. It would be interesting to read both and use them for compare/contrast exercises.
I saw an excellent DuBois documentary (I think this one : [link] that was eye opening. I feel pretty firmly that I am a WEB DuBois kinda person (not me personally as I am in no way part of the talented 10th). I teach the Atlanta Compromise in relation to Invisible Man which always forces a reconsidering of Washington.
I think Washington's approach has been unfairly simplified. Look at the difference between DuBois, born free in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk and Harvard with the support of his community, and Washington, born a slave in the South and working to uplift the poorest blacks in the South. Washington made himself the face of the nonthreatening Negro, while secretly funding challenges to Jim Crow laws. His goal was also equality, but he was a pragmatist.
The audiobook for Candy Freak is good fun.
I went to grad school with the author. We were friends but, really, he was kind of a dick. I haven't read the book, though. I wonder if he read the audiobook?
Has anyone read Mikal Gilmore's brilliant Shot through the Heart?
Yes! I love that book! Another great one about Mormons is Jon Krakaur's Under the Banner of Heaven. We read it for book club in March of last year, our crime-themed year, and it came up in basically all of our discussions for the rest of the year.
Oh, god, the Laffertys.
twirls through the thread in Victorian Goth formalwear
Supposedly Anne Rice just announced that her next book is a Lestat novel, Prince Lestat, and is a sequel to Queen of the Damned. PLEASE let it be better than Blackwood Farm or Blood Canticle.
Yeah, it is messed up. But, fascinating.
I saw an excellent DuBois documentary (I think this one : [link]) that was eye opening. I feel pretty firmly that I am a WEB DuBois kinda person
Historical sidenote: I had W.E.B. Dubois' old suitcase in my closet for a while.
Supposedly Anne Rice just announced that her next book is a Lestat novel, Prince Lestat, and is a sequel to Queen of the Damned.
WHAT.
I am...cautiously intrigued.