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Sep. 12th, 2019 09:57 pm• What are you reading?
Back to Children of Blood and Bone, for SF book club. I don't understand how Zelie keeps on acting like John Bender when the consequences for mouthing off are not a year of detentions, but torture or death for her or someone she cares about.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, for classics book club. I would love to read an essay comparing and contrasting this boy and his tiger to Calvin & Hobbes. When and how does Hobbes seem like a tiger? When and how does Richard Parker seem like a friend? How does the reader decide which narrative is the truth?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Got to finish Becoming, by Michelle Obama, for Tawanda book group.
• What are you watching?
The Hate U Give from the library, and Luce in the theater. An interesting juxtaposition: both films are about teenagers, grappling with American racism, when they are at that stage of almost-adulthood where they can't bear the restraints of childhood, but their parents can't bear the fear that something terrible will happen to them.
Back to Children of Blood and Bone, for SF book club. I don't understand how Zelie keeps on acting like John Bender when the consequences for mouthing off are not a year of detentions, but torture or death for her or someone she cares about.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, for classics book club. I would love to read an essay comparing and contrasting this boy and his tiger to Calvin & Hobbes. When and how does Hobbes seem like a tiger? When and how does Richard Parker seem like a friend? How does the reader decide which narrative is the truth?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Got to finish Becoming, by Michelle Obama, for Tawanda book group.
• What are you watching?
The Hate U Give from the library, and Luce in the theater. An interesting juxtaposition: both films are about teenagers, grappling with American racism, when they are at that stage of almost-adulthood where they can't bear the restraints of childhood, but their parents can't bear the fear that something terrible will happen to them.