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Dec. 2024 update
Dec. 2024 update!
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three pieces of news
Three interesting things in the news!
1. The Outsiders is now a Broadway musical!
2. A recent article in the New York Times about Robert Cormier, "His Book Was Repeatedly Banned. Fighting For It Shaped His Life" (by Brian Raftery, The New York Times, May 1, 2024), reports that The Chocolate War has been challenged for, among issues, "negativism."
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Dec. 2023
I've kept this blog active for 15 years now!
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Is Where the Wild Things Are the greatest children's book ever?
Imogen Carter, writing for the BBC, argues that Where the Wild Things Are is the greatest children's book ever:
"Of course, far from only appealing to children, after initially sending shockwaves around the literary establishment, over the decades the book has beguiled almost everyone who has encountered it, young and old, from world leaders to ( Read more... ) -
Dec. 2022
The updates continue!
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June 2022
"Okay?"
"Okay."
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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December 2021
"Most promises featuring the word 'always' are unkeepable," writes John Green in The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Dutton, 2021). Quite likely LiveJournal won't always be here to keep my promise to always keep these blogs active . . . but here's to as close to always as possible.
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June 2021
Posting every six months (or so) will ensure that this journal remains active and available. Hello from June 2021!
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back after a long hiatus
I take seriously my commitment to keep these blogs available in perpetuity.
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December 2015 update
Keeping the class blogs up, as promised.