Dawn Reader
A blog about books--about writing--about readers and reading--about teaching.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Dreaming of WordPerfect
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Just before I woke up this morning, I was inhabiting a dream about WordPerfect, the first word-processing program I really ever used. I ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Frankenstein Sundae, 234
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Mary Shelley meets some other famous women in the late 1820s. Frances (Fanny) Trollope The Trollope name surely rings some of recog...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
A Jack London Anniversary Is Approaching
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Writer Jack London died on November 22, 1916--yes, it will be a hundred years ago--and already the tributes are appearing. A couple of ...
Monday, June 13, 2016
Sunday Sundries, 106
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1. AOTW: We're heading east on Rt. 82 in Aurora, getting ready to turn right into Mickey D's parking lot (Diet Coke Time!), when ...
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Cicada Visit
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cicada that wants inside Last night--not long after Joyce and I got home from (another) visit to Szalay's farm market down in the Cu...
Friday, June 10, 2016
Remembering Paul Zindel
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I don't remember reading about the death of Paul Zindel (1936-2003), a writer who--during the earlier years of my middle-school teach...
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Wordbirds
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For Mitch Wilson, fellow doggerelist— With gratitude for 8 th grade, for Grease , for countless Facebook “Likes,” for enduring frie...
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