Sunday, October 7, 2012

Hi Bloggers!

It's just after 9:00 p.m., and I have other work to do so I have to go soon, but I just read through your blog posts, and I am delighted to see many of you experiencing the joys of quality nonfiction. Most of my incoming AP students -- bright, curious young people -- have never really explored this genre fully, and so the surprise of discovery that I see in your posts, such as "I never really thought I'd like nonfiction, but I want to read this book!" is wonderful to see.   If I ever complete a MFA, it will be in creative nonfiction.

Posts that I've read to date are (alphabetical order and by period):  Austin, Bonilla, Bryant, Bunch, Chavarria, Chikuma, Dayan, Figueroa, Lapastora, Mehta, Mendoza, Rajan, Rexwinkle, Tawfik, Thomas, Tovar, Villagran, Wielt, Wu, Yoder, Abellanosa, Benons, Chikuma, Coleman, Elasmar, Farquhar, Kang, Khennavong, Khondaker, Lasao, Mendoza, Miller, Moore, Ngo, Nguyen, Osorio, Reece, and Remulla.

[PS:  I am able to see drafts of work in progress:  Duy, Gardea, Jaime, Parker and Nwabuzor.]

If the rest of you post later tonight, I'll see it soon!  Keep reading, and bring your books tomorrow and on Wednesday.  And Ridhi, get another book.  That one was too easy.  I'm glad you read it, and I'll bet you'll be able to use something from it someday in an essay...but really, shall I bring you another one?  I have some good ones here in the Fletcher library.

Kids, I recommend everyone check out Byliner.com.  Short, high quality nonfiction!  And fiction too, for that matter.  I read some great Amy Tan and Margaret Atwood this summer that I got from Byliner.

I'm going to download Every Love Story is a Ghost Story RIGHT NOW.  I must read this immediately.

Hope you had a lovely weekend.  How are you doing on this week's puzzle??  I haven't sat down to draw it yet.

Next week's challenge: Draw a regular hexagon, and connect every pair of vertices except one. The pair you don't connect are not on opposite sides of the hexagon, but along a shorter diagonal. How many triangles of any size are in this figure?




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