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  1. I have the ability to view an issue from multiple perspectives and see the pros and cons of each side Strong research, planning, and editing skills Good at close reading and analysis Good at breaking big concepts down into manageable chunks (years of teaching will do this….)
  2. I’ve been thinking about long Covid lately. I’ve had Covid one time (last September) and thankfully did not have any lingering symptoms. However, I have had lingering symptoms after other (often unidentified) viruses. These have included arthritis, fatigue, post-exertional malaise, chronic hives, brain fog…. Do we know how common this phenomenon is in general? I’m also wondering if symptoms that we’ve blamed on immune system “overreactions” in the past (this is what I always blamed my symptoms on) are actually long-lasting viral infections that go undetected. Anyway, perhaps all of these long Covid studies will give us better insight into the long-term behavior of viruses in general.
  3. I haven’t read anything by Anne yet; she’s languishing in my TBR pile at the moment. Maybe this summer….
  4. Currently reading Shakespeare’s Othello, and watching the play as I go - there’s a free version from the 90s on YouTube with Ian McKellen as Iago. He’s excellent in the role. It’s fascinating reading this book after Dante’s Inferno - sooooo many parallels. I’m also reading Mariner, Malcolm Guite’s biography of Coleridge. He includes many excerpts from Coleridge’s letters that give a lot of insight into his poetry. I’m enjoying this one and reading it slowly. I’m also working through a collection of Yeats’ poetry and some of his essays. It’s interesting to read Yeats after studying Blake - you can see Blake’s influence popping up in his work.
  5. I finished reading Dante’s Inferno. Wow, what a poem!! Haunting and funny and beautiful. It’s a true microcosm of medieval Christian thought. So much fun. Now I want to read the rest of the Divine Comedy.
  6. Some still mask regularly at my dd’s large high school. They are a minority, but I don’t get the impression that it’s considered abnormal.
  7. There is a very good modern version of Hamlet played by Andrew Scott that can be watched for free on YouTube:
  8. I finished Mansfield’s short stories. Other than The Garden Party I hadn’t read any of her work. She focuses a lot on the idea that we have multiple “selves” and that these selves often have competing desires. Many interesting stories and characters. Also reread Gawain and the Green Knight with my 10th graders. The temptation scenes with the lady make them sooooo uncomfortable! I’m currently slogging through Ulysses… so many allusions and I only catch a small fraction of them. Some chapters are easy to track and others are very muddy. I have a separate text with notes but there are so many and it’s cumbersome drudgery to read that way. I have SO much reading to do in February. I must finish: -Ulysses - for my class -Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse - for my class - Malcolm Guite’s Mariner - biography of Samuel Coleridge - for book club. Malcolm is a new favorite - I joined an online discussion with him a couple weeks ago and he charmed me! - Dante’s Inferno - for work - Animal Farm - for work I’m sure I’m missing something….. Hopefully I’ll get it all done!
  9. I read Jekyll & Hyde this week. It was actually my first time reading it! Short and fun with some interesting ideas about human nature to ponder. Still working through Mansfield - read a short story today called Psychology that will resonate with anyone who has left things unsaid and regretted it.
  10. I finished 12 Years a Slave. Such a brutal narrative. I’ve heard the movie is well done but might give myself a break before watching. Currently partway through Mansfield’s short stories. I’m enjoying some of them and others not as much. I need to start Ulysses this week and am slightly dreading it 😂
  11. Thanks - this sounds right up my alley!
  12. Strange and Norrell is one of my top five books of all time!! It’s so well written Clarke’s prose is gorgeous but also so witty.
  13. Anxiety flashes?? Just great 😂
  14. This made me snort 😂 What a fun concept! Looking forward to your review.
  15. Last week I reread Lewis’ Screwtape Letters. Always fun (and sometimes convicting). Just finished the Routledge History of English for an essay I have to write on how the English language changed from Middle English to Early Modern English. Riveting stuff. 😂 I’m partway into Dante’s Divine Comedy - teaching this to a class of 16 year olds soon. Reading Baxter’s A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy alongside which is proving very helpful for coming up with discussion questions and context. Next up: Katherine Mansfield’s short stories (for school) and Northup’s 12 Years a Slave (for a seminar I’m co-teaching).
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