I might add "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Awakening."
I will definitely do a poetry unit; Herrick, Herbert, Donne, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson, Rossetti, Yeats, Whitman, Millay, at first cull.
Hmm. Maybe "The Once and Future King."
Who died and made you Elvis?
Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strix - Jul 05, 2006 12:50:08 pm PDT #5522 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ginger - Jul 05, 2006 12:59:21 pm PDT #5523 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think I will teach the following novels: Haunting of Hill House, The Great Gatsby, The House of Mirth, and The House of the Spirits.
I wouldn't pick The House of Mirth, but that's because my reaction to The House of Mirth was, "For God's sake, Lily, pull up your socks."
You could do a discussion of novels to film with your selection.
Sheryl - Jul 05, 2006 1:00:18 pm PDT #5524 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
G and I still split the bill when we go out to dinner, unless it's for a birthday or Valentine's day.
Hayden - Jul 05, 2006 1:01:09 pm PDT #5525 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
It's a short story by Charlotte Gilman. Creepy as hell. I love it too.
Yeah, that's right. My copy was a paperback called The Yellow Wallpaper and other stories, now that I think about it. Sort of like The Turn of the Screw, which always is a novel in my memory, but in reality is fairly short.
Trudy Booth - Jul 05, 2006 1:04:44 pm PDT #5526 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
That's kind of nuts. He may have been sick for awhile; they hadn't filed an appeal yet.
I don't think its THAT nuts.
He's richer than God. He's about to go to jail. He's reasonably old. And he's a big fat crooked liar.
If he could do it he quite possibly would.
JZ - Jul 05, 2006 1:38:31 pm PDT #5527 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
No sex in Bridge to Terabinthia, IIRC, but yes to the death.
This may be a horribly dorky suggestion, but what about Northanger Abbey? It's gothic *and* romantic *and* snarky as hell, and when I first read it at 19 I was completely awed by the fact that the author had started it at 17 and finished it when she was just my age. Really, Jane Austen's writing career started with teenagerly mockery of the badfic. Possibly that may hook some of them in?
Jars - Jul 05, 2006 1:43:12 pm PDT #5528 of 10002
So, a friend of mine just won a round the owrld trip worth 20,000 pounds. We were celebrating. I had beer and some Greek thing. But, holiday! Holy crap!
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2006 1:49:29 pm PDT #5529 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So, a friend of mine just won a round the owrld trip worth 20,000 pounds.
Jaysus. Is he going alone? Uh, is it a he?
Jars - Jul 05, 2006 1:52:06 pm PDT #5530 of 10002
She, actually, and she gets to bring three people. So far, it's her boyfriend, her best friend, and her sister. I repeat, HOLY CRAP. The worst part is how I completely would have deleted the email. It was an online uni competition, so the only way they had to contact her was email. Which was from someone she didn't know and said "congratulations". I'm fairly fucking sure i'd have deleted that.
eta non drunken typing. Ish
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2006 1:58:30 pm PDT #5531 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
THREE PEOPLE? That's a really cool prize. Mondo cool.
Makes me almost want to read my spam.