Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 25, 2016
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suggested summer reading man: in "ulysses", the new oprah's book club selection, author james joyce uses innovative narrative techniques to tell the story of leopold bloom. bloom has just 24 hours to find & defuse the bomb hidden somewhere in dublin by the elusive criminal mastermind & illegal organ dealer known only as - the brain! thrill as bloom, his beautiful wife, molly, and their hip sidekick, steve, track down the brain in a fast-paced pub crawl that culminates in a pulse-pounding fight in an abandoned distillery! woman: i have to read "silas marner," "last of the mohicans," "the pearl," "a separate peace" and "the old man and the sea" for my intro-duction to hatefully dull literature class. screenplay in embryo dude: i'm reading this, but i can't really recommend it. great big jumbo giant pop-up book baby: this was good until the author dragged the rhomboid in. then it just fell apart. shapes
My yardstick for the literacy of English teachers is this. We read “Heart of Darkness” at Beserkely in the 1960’s. Yes, that place, then. And with all the talk about colonialism and oppression in those days, we did not hear ONE WORD about the genocide in the Congo at the time of the novel. Not one.