Really loving living in a pivotal historical moment, still. Enjoying bothering my city council and my state representatives, though, and producing primary sources.
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There’s a hard-won comfort in the novel, which I certainly needed as I was reading it.
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Okay, as usual, I let this sit too long. In my defense, I had a new job, COVID, and international travel in there, so things got dicey. A lot of good books this time, though it covers more ground than I normally do, time-wise. All title links go to bookshop.
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Edgar and I are traveling, and so we’ve prepared these posts in advance. Right now, I want to share with you something that isn’t quite a genre but which are unified by a particular set of qualities. Maybe that’s what a genre really is. I don’t have a good name for them, so I’m going to describe this as “unbureaucratic” fiction.
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Included in here is a wider variety of books than I normally read, because we have two novels that I read for the literature class I taught this past semester. Teaching literature is really different from teaching composition, and while I’d gladly do both going forward, I definitely need more practice as a literature teacher.
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