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: ENG385

Date
ISBN
 Title Author
Class
2004-03-27 0440205417 Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye Lowry, Lois ENG385
  This was not on the book list for ENG385 but instead was a book that I read for my final project for the class, which was on Lois Lowry. It's not as gripping as The Giver or Gathering Blue but is still a pleasant read. It would fit in with the theme of journeys or quests, or it could be good for an adopted kid to read.
2004-03-27 039589543X Looking Back Lowry, Lois ENG385
  I'm doing my final ENG385 project on Lois Lowry, and what project about Lois Lowry would be complete without her memoir? I haven't read this book yet, but glancing through it, I think the pictures are great and that it seems very readable for young adults as well as other readers.
2004-03-09 0440229383 Whale Talk Crutcher, Chris ENG385
  This was an optional book for ENG385 (the other choices being Many Stones and Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry). I chose this one since I saw that it was about misfits in high school. It is about that, but it touches on more issues, racism being a primary one. A very good read. (4/10/2004 I noted when reading Ironman that I learned in ENG486 that Chris Crutcher decided to include a gay character in each of his books, but thinking back I can't remember the gay character in this book.)
2004-02-24 059042792X My Brother Sam is Dead Collier, James Lincoln & Collier, Christopher ENG385
  This was one of the optional choices for ENG385 (during the war themed literature circles). I liked it because it presents a point of view from the American Revolution not very much seen, that of Americans who wanted to remain loyal to the British crown. Every war has at least two sides, and I think it's good for kids to see that opponents of the American Revolution weren't necessarily bad people (I know that makes me sound like a hopeless liberal).
2004-02-24 0598371258 Out of the Dust Hesse, Karen ENG385
  Another optional book for ENG385, this one is written from the perspective of a girl in the Dust Bowl during the Depression and is written in free verse poetry. I thought it was very good, but then I'd been exposed to a novel written in free verse style before, namely Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson.

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