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Shadow Tapestry; Rumspringa Teaching
Apr. 12th, 2009 11:23 amVampire Tapestry, by Suzy McKee Charnas
Very deliberately constructed but very readable novel. Dated but in a way that brings back the time it was written in (cusp of the 70s/80s) rather than just feeling goofy. I really need to go back and read all the Charnas I've missed. I loved Motherlines as a young adult.
(71/275)
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Delicious page turner of a literary mystery. Melodramatic but in the good way. Very evocative of its historical period (post-WW2 Barcelona). I'm excited that his next novel is coming out this summer.
(72/275)
Rumspringa, by Tom Schactman
Interesting non-fiction account of Amish youth during their "wild years" before they decide whether or not to stay in the church. Would've preferred less of the background info I already knew and more about the whole range of Amish youth experience including that of the "good kids". But I can see why he did it this way.
(73/275)
Free School Teaching, by Kristan Accles Morrison
The more I learn about free schools the more I think they are what I yearned for as a kid and even tried to make for myself within the public school system as much as I could. This was an engagingly written and in most ways a thorough book. I'm not sure a person could call it balanced though. As polemics go, it was a thoughtful one.
(74/275)
Very deliberately constructed but very readable novel. Dated but in a way that brings back the time it was written in (cusp of the 70s/80s) rather than just feeling goofy. I really need to go back and read all the Charnas I've missed. I loved Motherlines as a young adult.
(71/275)
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Delicious page turner of a literary mystery. Melodramatic but in the good way. Very evocative of its historical period (post-WW2 Barcelona). I'm excited that his next novel is coming out this summer.
(72/275)
Rumspringa, by Tom Schactman
Interesting non-fiction account of Amish youth during their "wild years" before they decide whether or not to stay in the church. Would've preferred less of the background info I already knew and more about the whole range of Amish youth experience including that of the "good kids". But I can see why he did it this way.
(73/275)
Free School Teaching, by Kristan Accles Morrison
The more I learn about free schools the more I think they are what I yearned for as a kid and even tried to make for myself within the public school system as much as I could. This was an engagingly written and in most ways a thorough book. I'm not sure a person could call it balanced though. As polemics go, it was a thoughtful one.
(74/275)
