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Kathy Leonard Czepiel
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A Violet Season
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2012
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4 editions
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INTUITION
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2014
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Blüten im Staub
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Blüten im Staub
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Reading Controversial Books
Well into our fall semester, I asked my students to decide what they wanted to study for our last reading. Anything in the textbook was fair game. One of my classes chose an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me. Most of my students are white, and if you’ve read Coates’s bestseller, you know how challenging it can be for white readers. I figured we were going to have to do a lot
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Classics and the Western Canon
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Week 8 — “The Cult of the Phoenix” & “The South” & The Book as a Whole
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Thomas wrote: "I have similar feelings. I admire the subtle way that Borges builds his puzzles the same way I enjoy a good detective story. But they d
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Interesting--I see the connection. As I was reading "The Secret Miracle," I was struck by that line: "He did not work for posterity, nor even for God,
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Week 6 — “Death and the Compass” & “The Secret Miracle”
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Oh, wow, yes, I hadn't thought of Bierce! I liked this story because it seemed to understand how my mind works as well, and the way it played with tim
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Week 5 — “Funes, His Memory” & “The Shape of the Sword” & “The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero”
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I enjoyed "The Form of the Sword" more than many of the pieces here, but again, I felt as if were being rushed through. Borges seems more interested i
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Week 2 — “Pierre Menard, Author of The “Quixote”” & “The Circular Ruins”
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It's another version of the story from the Library of Babel. Only a single character is different. :)
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4th Read of 2024 — Please vote for the book you want to read next with the group. The fourth read starts August 28. Votes are weighted (details in the comments)
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Classics and the Western Canon
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