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CT: You know where you got that shirt from, and it damn sure wasn't the men's dept

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tigerswood said:
When I see 3 pages of CT about literature.

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i do not come here for intellectual chit chat
 
wakephan09 said:
Mako, how do you choose your texts?

Sounds like your shakespeare, at least, is decided by department or school committee
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Yeah but outside of that we have autonomy. 9-basically whatever. 10 world lit. 11 American. 12 British. Our librarian is pretty good at finding money for class sets of novels that we want to teach and there’s only 4 of us so we just teach what we want and try not to step on each other’s toes. We had a lady a few years ago that taught a shitload of Ayn Rand so that freedom isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. I wasn’t sad to see her retire.
 
Doesn't have to be intellectual. Lots of intersections here between people's high school experiences, professional lives, and what they enjoy reading.

If, like a guy I spoke to today, you haven't read a book since your deployment to Bosnia in 1996, maybe today is the day. I bet you can get some good recommendations around here
 
I want a recommendation. I'm looking for a story, preferably fiction, with good character development and no story lines involving child abuse or abject tragedy. Bonus points if there's not a war as part of the plot.
Basically I'm looking for an escape that has a little more substance than a beach trash novel.
 
mako1331 said:
Yeah but outside of that we have autonomy. 9-basically whatever. 10 world lit. 11 American. 12 British. Our librarian is pretty good at finding money for class sets of novels that we want to teach and there’s only 4 of us so we just teach what we want and try not to step on each other’s toes. We had a lady a few years ago that taught a shitload of Ayn Rand so that freedom isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. I wasn’t sad to see her retire.
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Sounds great. Do you teach all four grade levels? If so, you can pretty much cover anything you want
 
wakephan09 said:
Doesn't have to be intellectual. Lots of intersections here between people's high school experiences, professional lives, and what they enjoy reading.

If, like a guy I spoke to today, you haven't read a book since your deployment to Bosnia in 1996, maybe today is the day. I bet you can get some good recommendations around here
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look i've only got two things on my mind today. 1 - getting my ear unclogged so i can hear out of. 2 - barves.
 
Unfortunately the "unfortunate childhood" is a rich literary trope.
 
lbE08 said:
I want a recommendation. I'm looking for a story, preferably fiction, with good character development and no story lines involving child abuse or abject tragedy. Bonus points if there's not a war as part of the plot.
Basically I'm looking for an escape that has a little more substance than a beach trash novel.
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ImTheCaptain said:
lots of talk about 'literature' but i don't see any Dan Brown mentioned
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I am enjoying The Secret History tho I am a philistine who can barely read or talk or write
 
TownieDeac said:
I am enjoying The Secret History tho I am a philistine who can barely read or talk or write
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It takes a depraved sort of person to really love donna tartt. I told you already but I'm designing an entire course around that novel, lol
 
I am reading a series of James Patterson books right now, it's not going to win any literary awards but I don't mind sometimes reading stuff that takes minimal brain power to get through
 
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