ProfessorPangloss
Amateur Kentuckian
As an English teacher, I've enjoyed reading everyone's posts of "I sat down with X book, Y tobacco, and Z alcoholic beverage and had a great / average / transcendent evening." One of the most enjoyable things about my nursery job last summer was that when it *really* rained (ie. drove off the customers), I could hunker down on the clock in our little shack with a pipe and some Hunter S. Thompson. I also read John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor that way, which is tons of fun if you like a challenging, ribald, and plot-twisting novel at least somewhat about tobacco and early America.
The irony of teaching English is that I generally, for at least 9 months a year, spend my "free" time at night reading poorly-written student work and making comments that go unrecognized and wasted. So right now, in my free-r time, I read as much as I can.
Ok, I'll start. No book shaming here. If you want to read the Twilight series and knock off a stogie, you're a free human being.
I'm reading All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg. It's the memoir by Pulitzer prize winner of his very hard young life in rural Alabama in the sixties and seventies. Great Southern prose styling, descriptions, and characters. I'm about halfway through and recommend it highly.
who's next?
The irony of teaching English is that I generally, for at least 9 months a year, spend my "free" time at night reading poorly-written student work and making comments that go unrecognized and wasted. So right now, in my free-r time, I read as much as I can.
Ok, I'll start. No book shaming here. If you want to read the Twilight series and knock off a stogie, you're a free human being.
I'm reading All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg. It's the memoir by Pulitzer prize winner of his very hard young life in rural Alabama in the sixties and seventies. Great Southern prose styling, descriptions, and characters. I'm about halfway through and recommend it highly.
who's next?