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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'Feed']]>
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to: Feed (Paperback)byM.T. Anderson
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'The Norton Book of Composition Studies']]>
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The Norton Book of Composition Studies (Paperback)
bySusan Miller bookshelves: to-read
This was a free giveaway at the MWCA conference! It has some stuff I've already read in 340 and 363 (Bruffee, Hartwell--our WC founder, Emig, Fulkerson, Flower & Hayes, etc.) but it has ALL KINDS OF STUFF I haven't read too! So exciting!
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'Teaching Composition: Background Readings']]>
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Teaching Composition: Background Readings (Bedford/St. Martin's Professional Resources)
byT.R. Johnson bookshelves: to-read
I got this at MWCA too! Ahhhhh!
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'Slow Man']]>
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to: Slow Man (Paperback)byJ.M. Coetzee bookshelves: writing
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy']]>
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to: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Paperback)byDouglas Adams
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'Bread Givers']]>
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Bread Givers (Paperback)
byAnzia Yezierska bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74130321
to: The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Art of...)byCharles Baxter bookshelves: writing
Baxter draws on more than 40 literary works to explain the art of subtext. Never veering into the self-help flavored category of books on writing, he dissects effective stories and shows us how they work.
Baxter writes with a compelling religious fervor. He says the writer must believe her story; she can't be "agnostic about it" (96). He talks about character development in terms of the soul.
My favorite chapter is "Creating A Scene." Characters need to makes scenes. They can't be well behaved all the time. For a writer to avoid this, "betrays a feeling of shame about the inner life and the sort of resonance that the inner life can create in fiction--a shame that has not been successfully overcome, as it must be--spiritually and dramatically" (115).
While reading Baxter, I felt I had to stop periodically and work on the story I'm writing for my fiction class. Every once in a while, something he said would make a light bulb go off and I would have to write. The immediate effect this book had on my writing places it at the very top of the list of books I've read about writing.
I got off to a rough start reading this Baxter, because there are a few of those standard material-generating exercises at the beginning, and I generally find those unhelpful. But ultimately, it's nothing like those other writing books.
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods']]>
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Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
byMartin Sanchez-Jankowski bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'Bucking the Sarge']]>
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Bucking the Sarge (Readers Circle)
byChristopher Paul Curtis bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Caitie added 'In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong']]>
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In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong (Paperback)
byAmin Maalouf bookshelves: to-read
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