Dave Schaafsma
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Beautiful artwork and funny and insightful story about the function of art in a community. A sort of marginal hipster artist who is not very likable gets invited to a community biennial event, to help them create art and he is the Real Artist, though ...more | |
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Ask the Parrot, #23 of the 24 Parker novels from Richard Stark/Donald Westlake, is the continuation of the story begun in Nobody Runs Forever, to be concluded in Dirty Money, the last of 24 Parker novels Stark wrote. It begins where that last book en ...more | |
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"We're all waiting in this camp. Waiting. Waiting for something better." Oh, what a difference to read a crucially important, necessary story when a talented storyteller tells it! Victoria Jamieson is perhaps best known for her book Roller Girl, thou ...more |
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Duckworth (2019) is a pretty funny picture book by clinical psychologist and writer Michael Sussman, illustrated gorgeously by Júlia Sardà. The design, the illustration, that's the highlight of this one. Sussman does a version of what he did on anoth ...more | |
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So I am on record as having become sick of zombies (somehow appropriate, yes?) and read the first three volumes in, what, 2013 and gave this first volume two stars. The universe seems to have converged on me in two ways to give this another go: I hav ...more | |
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Here's what the publisher says about this book: "Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin waged a brutal war against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodomor, the terror-famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians during the fall and winter of 1932-33. ...more |
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Not gonna lie: I picked this up because of the title, and it did not disappoint. But it's odd. But I like odd in a picture book. It's about sibling rivalry, especially the one that gets mentioned in many baby books about newborns being resented by th ...more | |
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“Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves. ”
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“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.”
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nytimes.com / 2022 / 09 / 12 / books / kate-beaton-ducks-canada-oil.html?unlocked_article_code=gT0YdCu1dfrsJo_hLSA1jK0-cpHozTywKGSfeOH2zdsuWpNuUUbLUgr8AH_3enqzXB4ZVQnO2iJYOzqaE4KdkovE2M-GutNsCmEzHEtVzrVNfvw64_pzz--Fh_lmPWdHXRy5wSyJVJANUqOF1H7BCdmPqKRN-ySUHBKin32GWcZJxLPQ2qtShzB_NSt2oe87cH0wAKc7ckgDFN4D5OttzQyqgQj-NQFoWwNlntl68mDdNx0_jh7h1UWO1gjWGLXj48qKO-taoQ3JOb5vUd5ICSX94vJd-XTgz6XM6NhBpi_U13KvSLaSbYATUIfL9bGuIsAnluF1q7DydBZgXZgzlSyGNSc&smid=share-url
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Do the dream! You get to read a lot, for sure! :) Good luck with your reading (and reviews!).
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I am reading your reviews for quite some years now, so it was a very pleasant surprise to receive your friend invite; thank you very much!
I am looking forward to interesting discussions and comic book findings,
Michael
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And to you, too, Hanneke!
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Picture Book" And I can help you by compiling--soon--my/our favorites, but A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals
by Lucy Ruth Cummins was our top favorite. I finally found for Ida, Always, because the lion book was out of the running. I liked Klaasen's Hat book, but the kids liked it less.
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Thanks for accepting my request, and glad to now know what you are also reading. And thanks for all the wishes! I hope you also have a terrific weekend.
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Best wishes from Majenta
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So nice of you to say! I wish you the same, a terrific summer! Keep reading and reviewing. You make me happy!
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Well, the Young Adult Literature course is a typical one for the preparation of English teachers in a lot of universities and colleges. I have been teaching it for maybe 15 years, but haven't been reading that much of it lately. Mostly comics. Will next year, maybe. Oh! And this summer I will teach a course on Young Adult Graphic Novels, just to try something different.
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well, I am glad to help you in any way I can. Let's talk!
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(I don't think he's a prof, but he's a learned reader and an interesting writer.)
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Well, I read a lot, like many on Goodreads, but I have recently taken to recording and writing reviews of EVERYTHING, kind of like an autobiography through reading. I don't know why, exactly. I just am enjoying it. Not many people read my reviews, so I just write for myself, mainly, but am glad to connect to you and anyone through books!
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Well, I am getting older, an English major who became an English prof, so the books I have read.. they'll accumulate. Honestly, I am sure there are many more unrated. Things in areas I have read I just haven't thought of. But that's not bragging. Just saying that if you read your whole life, you will have read a lot of books! I still have a passion for reading, no question! Glad to begin to get to know you!
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Well, Jonathan, Gravity's Rainbow is one difficult book with so much richness in it. The most difficult book we read (started) in that Postwar American Fiction class, for sure (though Lolita might have been a match for sheer complexity). In Slow Learner you get how he was getting started, trying out ideas he would elaborate on for the rest of his career, so in that sense it is worth it to check it out..
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"I'm good. Not teaching in this second summer session, so reading and writing a bit more… you?
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I only just saw this now! Hi!
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Jane wrote: "Hi David!"
Hi, Jane! Do I know you? Either way, hi! :) Welcome to my Goodreads world!
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(Just a random thought, as I'm currently on, and there's not a 6:30 am review for me to read for a change. sadness.)