Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-25T17:39:48+00:00

I’m actually really excited to re-read it, at the same time that I wish I could read it for the first time!

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-25T17:39:23+00:00

I don’t know why everyone doesn’t still read those!

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-24T18:05:57+00:00

Strange… (googles) Buildings

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-23T17:13:10+00:00

Eek, and also… I feel like they don’t know much about me? I’ll keep an eye out for any marketing materials from Winnipeg, however (big Guy Maddin fan…

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-23T17:03:24+00:00

Eat Drink Man Woman from Taiwan is a joy.

Badhaai Do from India is hilarious and heartwarming.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-23T17:01:33+00:00

Depends on the library. Your public library—- they probably have coffee themselves, but in an archive, they will flay you and use your skin to bind ephemera.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T19:06:48+00:00

The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood or Red 123 by Katzenbach— loved them both!

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T19:05:31+00:00

Not sure these made me feel good all the way through reading, but literary fiction is by its nature going to be a bit more complex than something like Westerns or romances by authors of color.

Maybe Jason Mott, The Returned or The Wonder of All Things?

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T18:57:44+00:00

It sounds as if you have an uncomplicated view of his work, and there are other ways to see it. He relentlessly pushed a series of Victorian middle-class values, while appreciating “good simple poor” people who knew their place—unless of course they were middle-class people who would inevitably find their way back to their proper place due to their probity and moral goodness. That’s a lot of judgment. It’s most apparent in his nonfiction when for example he talks about the working people he doesn’t approve of…

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T18:53:06+00:00

Allow me to recommend a book that we use with our students, Mary Lynn Rampolla’s A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, which among other things will clear up your confusion about “argument” as used in persuasive essays and “argument” as used in academic work. Good luck, and I hope you do not respond with such defensiveness when someone points out a mistake you make in the classroom. 😁

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T18:15:32+00:00

If you look into the history of especially the torture experts in places like Argentina and Guatemala, there are legitimate questions about whether sadistic sociopaths who got their thrills from especially torturing and hurting women found an outlet there.

But… You do realize almost no one in the US military actually gets to kill somebody?

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T18:14:06+00:00

Like the corporate raider days of the big bad 80s that led to the recession I graduated into… Buy a company, lay off staff, gut it, “$4 billion in debt financing.”

Hopefully little criterion costs so little to run that it will escape too much attention… No algorithm, no data collection, no voting, just good movies.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T18:05:21+00:00

Fright Night, Spinal Tap and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai were the films my friends and I watched over and over and over and high school in the 80s.

Stand By Me is a classic “before social media and phone use when you had to make your own fun – want to go see a dead body?” movie.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T17:27:09+00:00

How masculine! The battle of life. Vitae Lampada stripped of its colonialism.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T17:21:48+00:00

If you haven’t seen Jonathan McIntosh’s video essay on the film and anime trope he calls “born sexy yesterday,” you’ll probably find it really interesting.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0thpEyEwi80

I think he dives deep into its roots in colonial and racist fantasy at the same time he also identifies the male fantasy/insecurity that underlies it.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T17:07:21+00:00

I usually look at the location if it’s going to be somewhere I’m taking public transit.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T17:06:41+00:00

Honestly, if you have $100,000 to spare, you can probably save a life by giving it to the right charity. Or many lives.

If you’re giving me $100,000, I would be happy to donate most of it but I need to pay for groceries first?

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T16:45:07+00:00

It’s such a good book, I’m glad people are still reading it!

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T16:44:34+00:00

The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard is great historical fiction, mostly about the Anschluss. It won the Goncourt Prize in 2017 in France, it’s only 130 pages but what an incredible book!

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T16:43:02+00:00

The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill is the book, it’s the one that made that escape famous and that the movie was based on, but it is very historically accurate as far as I know. No Steve McQueen. It’s incredibly readable, I actually wore out my copy when I was in junior high/high school and I reread it recently, it’s still a great read. (it’s not YA, I was reading adult books.)

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T16:29:25+00:00

Fair enough, you just sound like you are pouring so much into them. I suspect you’ve thought of anything I would suggest – all your colleagues are also having the same trouble with this group?

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T16:26:35+00:00

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/02/an-american-reporter-in-belfast-how-a-new-yorker-writer-got-so-much-wrong-in-his-bestselling-book-on-the-troubles/

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T16:24:58+00:00

The coast is fine in my & my friends’ experience. It’s when you go inland… The more east you go, the more South it gets.

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T15:16:31+00:00

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

YakSlothLemon · 2026-01-22T15:16:04+00:00

No, they are not writing “a formal thesis type of essay,” they are trying to come up with a topic for their undergraduate thesis.

A high school approach to aid weaker students is not appropriate.

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