Posted in books, translation, tagged Dutch, poetry, Tellegen, translation on September 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Which, in Dutch, means “lost in translation.”
While in Amsterdam I checked out a number of bookstores hunting down the impossible: a discovery. The art of discovering something uncommon (or at least uncommon in one culture that might be totally popular in another) carries a certain cache “That proves you were there/That you heard of [...]
Posted in YA, essay, grad skool, tagged essay, grad school, hamlet, shakespeare, YA on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
As I mentioned, when I was originally putting my application package together I had finished the spit and polish on my critical essay and went back to check and make sure I didn’t screw up the page length requirement. It seems a small thing, but I really didn’t want to look like a dingledork [...]
Posted in grad skool, the man behind the curtain, tagged , essay, grad school, personal on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
This is it, the one I finally settled on. The edit was a bloodbath — it was twice and long and four times as meandering as it needed to be originally. I think if I hadn’t been on a short deadline (of my own design) I’d have written at least 20 different versions, [...]
Posted in grad skool, the man behind the curtain, tagged blogging, creative writing, essay, grad school, kidlit, personal on September 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
adjective capable or worthy of being accepted.
Which is to say, I got into grad school.
I started putting this blog together at around a month ago just after I applied. I had a September 1st deadline for a January start and I honestly didn’t expect to hear anything before the middle of October. In [...]
Posted in observations, review on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I just finished up my most recent batch of books to review and was thinking “Hmm, what should I read next?” when a ginormous padded mailer came from the nice UPS man filled with my next batch of books.
Wow. So many trees, giving up their lives so valiantly in the name of books that [...]
Posted in books, opinion, review on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
This collection of shorter humorous pieces — I hesitate to use the word story as so many are written only to hit a punchline — are either the first inklings of a major force in humor or the short, brilliant sparks of beer-infused talent at the cusp of spiraling into oblivion.
Personally, I’m hoping for the [...]
Posted in observations, opinion on September 17, 2007 | No Comments »
My blog subscriptions are a funny collection of who I am, what interests me. I’m sure everyone’s collection of interests has a few odd pieces.
One of the places I visit regularly is Seth Godin’s blog entitled, uh, Seth’s Blog. Seth is marketing guru, a guy who is constantly looking at and rethinking the [...]
Posted in boys v. girls, observations on September 15, 2007 | No Comments »
It was one of those things that came up in a conversation late at night while we were drifting off to sleep. I talked about how, in the bookstore, the adults who are shopping are 90% female. In fact, I said, you didn’t really notice that the clientelle was all women until you’d [...]
Posted in comments, observations, opinion on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Historian and author Marc Aronson has a blog at School Library Journal called Nonfiction Matters. In his posts he regularly addresses the issues surrounding nonfiction and history as it’s presented in children’s books.
In a recent post he discussed the idea that a book be something more than just a book, that interactive media should [...]
Posted in coinage, nsfk on September 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Everyone’s acronym crazy these days, and text messaging seems to be a fact of life, so why not join in the fun! NSFK now means Not Safe For Kids which I’m throwing out there for use however and whichever way it works you all.
Actually, I was surprised it hasn’t already come up. We’ve got tonnes [...]
Posted in grad skool, observations, review on September 7, 2007 | No Comments »
When I was working up application materials I had a critical essay I needed to include. I really liked this book I picked up on my vacation and felt — aside from the essay — that I had something to say about the possible uses of historical non-fiction for teens.
When I was just about [...]
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