What I'm reading *

I've always read. While growing up, reading was a refuge when I found life too unpleasant or stressful. Consequently I've bought a lot of books over time as well.

 
Now that I'm no longer in the rich corporate phase of my life I've rediscovered the library. Dayton's library may be maligned by some but is still a great resource. One type of book I like to read is gay fiction and I was surprised to see a lot of it in the Dayton library's catalog. Plus you can even ask them to buy particular titles, and they will!

Below you can see the five most recent books either that I'm reading or that I've acquired. You can search my books, or you can see all my books. Also my classes page has links back to this page for the books for each class.

Class: ENG486

Date
ISBN
 Title Author
Class
2004-04-15 0867092947 Authors' Insights: Turning Teenagers into Reade... Gallo, Donald R., editor ENG486
  For my ENG486 class we had to find resources on the author of our optional book (mine was Todd Strasser's The Wave). I found mostly web resources, but I did find an article in this book by Strasser about teaching kids to write fiction. The full title of the book is Authors' Insights: Turning Teenagers into Readers & Writers, and Strasser's article is "Nineteen Different Answers and One Black Eye."

I haven't read the whole article yet, but Strasser's key point seems to be that only people who desire to write fiction can learn how to write fiction. Makes sense to me.
2004-04-14 1573226122 Lord of the Flies Golding, William ENG486
  One of the required books for ENG486. I read it a long time ago in junior high, and I guess teachers are still making kids read it, which is why we're reading it now, to come up with tons of great ways to interest kids in it.
2004-03-29 0435085220 Opening Texts Andrasick, Kathleen Dudden ENG486
  I haven't read much of this book yet, but Andrasick talks about mixing the New Criticism and Reader Response approaches to literary analysis. Some of her strategies are covered by other authors such as Nanci Atwell.
2004-03-29 0689832362 Parallel Journeys Ayer, Eleanor with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck ENG486
  Very interesting memoir about the Holocaust, told from two perspectives, that of a young German Jewish woman and a young German Hitler's Youth boy
2004-03-29 0440993717 The Wave Strasser, Todd ENG486
  An optional book for ENG486 (the other choices were Ironman and Speak), The Wave is based on a true story about a classroom experiment in 1969 that turned out unexpectedly. A history teacher wanted to teach his students about the rise to power of the Nazis. I think the book's more interesting for the idea than for the writing. It might go well with other World War II/Holocaust-themed books.

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