A sneak peak at my book blurbs for tomorrow. I‘m feelin‘ an outdoorsy theme.
Every day I do a quick talk on a few books my students might be interested in to help them plan for their independent reading. Tomorrow we‘ve got some bite-sized informational nonfiction, some local narrative nonfiction, some classic Jack London, and the latest volume of Lumberjanes (which some of my students are going to be super pumped about).
Long weekend life.
Reading Stephen King‘s reflections on the genre of horror while watching my laundry do a dance of its own. This is a great follow-up to Dracula (and a precursor to King‘s homage to Dracula - ‘Salem‘s Lot). King suggests, “...we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. With the endless inventiveness of humankind, we grasp the very elements which are so divisive and destructive and try to turn them into tools - to dismantle themselves.”
I‘m not generally a Thor person, I tend to think that the Asgardians feel incongruous with the rest of the Marvel universe. But this volume was awesome. Interesting characters, great dialogue, and some of the best art I‘ve seen from Marvel.
“... the world seems full of good men - even if there are monsters in it.”
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