Mon 16 Mar 2009
I decided it will be just fine if I read “Twilight” as long as I also read James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” which I discovered sitting on the shelf in our living room today, begging to be read. I dug right in and pretty much immediately needed to take a nap.
I’ll let you know how this goes. Throw in college basketball and I think March might turn out to be more exciting than I thought.
March 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Twilight will make your March very exciting:)
March 16th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
I bet they would never do this in seventh grade public school lit today…but our teacher gave us a choice…over the course of the year (24 weeks) six weeks of The Odyssey and 18 weeks of each part of Ulysses a week at a time, or 12 books in two-week intervals. I chose the 12 books and I’m glad I did (Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, The Invisible Man, etc. But he adjusted the list for every student.) His name was Robert Hitt…all 75-years old of him. I’ll never forget that. When you finished a book, he would just do an oral test and ask you three random questions, but if you missed two of them, you failed the book/Ulysses chapter! One corect was a “C” He would Twitter from his grave if you lived long enough for Harry Potter and Twightlight, et al. lol
March 17th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Stick with it–Ulysses gets way more enjoyable with Chapter 4–Leopold Bloom is much more fun (and funnier) that Daedelus.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:40 am
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