December 3, 2009
Activities
Authored by Kathryn Stockett in 2009, this is a 1960′s look at the relationship between upper-crust white home owners in Mississippi and their domestic help. The Atlanta Journal Constitution praises Stockett’s “…attention to historical detail, dialect and characterization as she creates a beautiful portrait of a fragmenting world.” I found its subject matter biting and [...]
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December 3, 2009
Books I am Reading
A book by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day. The book Never Let Me Go is gripping account of the lives of some English school friends and their pre-ordained fate. As a sometimes teacher of British Education this makes me look back anew on the changes in England’s schooling during the last [...]
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