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Por el roble, el fresno y el espino: Otras voces

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By Sun and Candlelight. Con la cabeza en las nubes. Homeschool, sweet homeschool. Paideia Clásica en Familia. Reflexiones de una madre homeschooler. Enviar por correo electrónico. Suscribirse a: Entradas (Atom). Plantilla Simple. Con la tecnología de Blogger.

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Magnificent Octopus: The joules of men

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Monday, June 22, 2015. The joules of men. I started reading The Windup Girl. Some time ago, by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's slow going and fairly demanding reading, but in a rewarding way. There are no infodumps here; the reader has to figure out the terminology and the society and the politics as they go. It's rich world-building. (In this way this book is reminiscent of the work of China Miéville. These authors give their readers a lot of credit.). What's a dung lord? But of course it makes all kinds of sense.

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Magnificent Octopus: 08/2015

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Thursday, August 27, 2015. Great Canadian novelist, environmental activist, inventor, poet. Margaret Atwood is also a brewmaster. A colleague stumbled across some NooBroo at a local dépanneur, and picked up a bottle for me. I couldn't be more chuffed (any chuffier? Beau's All Natural teamed up with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson to create MaddAddamites NooBroo. Inspired by Atwood's novel MaddAddam. No, I don't think it can wait that long. Atwood's new novel comes out at the end of September.). I began...

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Seasonal Soundings: Thoughts as I climb the precipice of Gone with the Wind

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Thoughts as I climb the precipice of Gone with the Wind. With my rather slow start of Gone with the Wind. Should be considered my first. Sometimes when I read, a skim over short sections of prose to get the idea being described. In Gone with the Wind. I cannot skim. The prose is too rich and thick. Even if I wanted to skim, I don't want to miss Mitchell's one shot at word beauty in her only known book. Being from Virginia, I did enjoy this:. One new word for me - folderol.

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Seasonal Soundings: Intentional Reading

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Friday, February 27, 2015. For a number of years now, I've embraced the word intentional. Until I realized the word was what drove me in my activities, I just did my daily tasks with intention and never thought anything about it. After homeschooling for twenty years and moving into a traditional classroom as a middle/upper school teacher, I recognized the need to embrace that word intentional. A helpful list of things can be found here. Such as the Harry Potter. Books, the Hunger Games. British naval boo...

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Magnificent Octopus: Art heightens life

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Thursday, August 06, 2015. Art heightens life. She gives deeper joy, she consumes more swiftly. She engraves adventures of the spirit and the mind in the faces of her votaries; let them lead outwardly a life of the most cloistered calm, she will in the end produce in them a fastidiousness, and over-refinement, a nervous fever and exhaustion, such as a career of extravagant passions and pleasures can hardly show. 8212; from Death in Venice. Posted by Isabella Kratynski. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Magnificent Octopus: Grade 6 is so over

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Sunday, June 21, 2015. Grade 6 is so over. Two more days of school (sigh), but prom was Friday night. Posted by Isabella Kratynski. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Only poetry could win the vote. The joules of men. Grade 6 is so over. Things Im doing instead of blogging. The rat, the cats, and the snake. Book Catapult, The. Common Reader, A. Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits. Elegant Variation, The. Indextrious Reader, The. Literary Saloon, The. Mookse and the Gripes, The.

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Magnificent Octopus: Index I–Q

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The Star of Kazan. 8212; Read September 10, 2005. Three Egyptian Short Stories. 8212; Read March 3, 2011. 8212; Read December 17, 2010. The Art of Stillness. 8212; Read December 22, 2014. The Best of Everything. 8212; Read September 9, 2010. Excerpt. The Turn of the Screw. 8212; Read September 26, 2006. The Children of Men. 8212; Read January 27, 2007. Review copy. 8212; Read June 8, 2013. 1. 8212; Read September 17, 2006. 8212; Read September 25, 2005. 8212; Read October 2003. 8212; Read April 26, 2010.

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Magnificent Octopus: Only poetry could win the vote

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Only poetry could win the vote. We would go off on our own. We just wanted to speak French in peace. We wanted to whisper dirty things to our loved ones in French. There was a certain kind of love that could only be expressed in this way. There was no difference between the expressions I like you. And I love you. In French. You could never declare love like that in English. How could you explain that in a political platform? Mdash; from The Girl Who Was Saturday Night.