1) Purchase request submitted through my local public library (and a reminder to all that you, too, can submit library purchase suggestions! A library loan is not a lost sale!).
2) Your description of writing a paper about Tom Wolfe in the style of Tom Wolfe cracked me up. I'm in the middle of reading the journals I kept in high school, a…
1) Purchase request submitted through my local public library (and a reminder to all that you, too, can submit library purchase suggestions! A library loan is not a lost sale!).
2) Your description of writing a paper about Tom Wolfe in the style of Tom Wolfe cracked me up. I'm in the middle of reading the journals I kept in high school, and while for the most part they are as terrible as you might imagine, I'm also reminded of several such exercises/stunts I pulled, most of which were equally unappreciated by my teachers. (Our AP English teacher had the habit not only of assigning five paragraph themes but also of correcting you, should you make the grave mistake of varying the construction of the opening of your middle three paragraphs, of crossing out whatever you'd done and replacing it with "First, Second, Third." We did not get along.)
All authors love library requests. They are vital for keeping books around and publishers particularly love to see them. I had a number of other survival strategies when bored by what I was being asked to do in school. Unfortunately, some of them were things like sleeping or, senior year, declaring that I would do no homework at home. If I couldn't do it during school hours, it didn't get done. In a lot of ways I was behaving like a lazy, maybe spoiled kid, but I now recognize someone who was fighting disengagement with the limited tools at my disposal at the time.
1) Purchase request submitted through my local public library (and a reminder to all that you, too, can submit library purchase suggestions! A library loan is not a lost sale!).
2) Your description of writing a paper about Tom Wolfe in the style of Tom Wolfe cracked me up. I'm in the middle of reading the journals I kept in high school, and while for the most part they are as terrible as you might imagine, I'm also reminded of several such exercises/stunts I pulled, most of which were equally unappreciated by my teachers. (Our AP English teacher had the habit not only of assigning five paragraph themes but also of correcting you, should you make the grave mistake of varying the construction of the opening of your middle three paragraphs, of crossing out whatever you'd done and replacing it with "First, Second, Third." We did not get along.)
All authors love library requests. They are vital for keeping books around and publishers particularly love to see them. I had a number of other survival strategies when bored by what I was being asked to do in school. Unfortunately, some of them were things like sleeping or, senior year, declaring that I would do no homework at home. If I couldn't do it during school hours, it didn't get done. In a lot of ways I was behaving like a lazy, maybe spoiled kid, but I now recognize someone who was fighting disengagement with the limited tools at my disposal at the time.