This was not so much poor headline writing as poor truncation:
Beloit schools want children to read…
Well, that bolsters my faith in the Beloit school system.
Archive for the ‘reading’ Category
Headline Writing: Also an Important Skill
Posted in School, reading on 7 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Note From the Author
Posted in Books, Small Moments, reading, tagged Books, Chickens, Parenting, reading, Small Moments on 10 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pablo and Baby A. are snuggled in the big blue armchair reading a book about chickens. Chicken books are the favorite birthday present of the day. Good thing too because she received a fair number of them this past week. Her auntie keeps chickens. Baby A. has held tiny chicks in two cupped hands and [...]
Why Can’t I Finish This Book??
Posted in Books, reading, tagged Beloved, Books, monkeys, reading on 23 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just over halfway through Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved, I am stalled. I have tried to finish it before and failed. Usually, I do better listening to a difficult to read book than just sitting down to look at it. Could it be the author’s reading?
The not-finishing doesn’t make sense to me. I like the language. [...]
I Can’t Read, I Can’t Read
Posted in reading, tagged reading on 14 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few years ago, my mother and I watched in disturbed amusement as the neighbor girl played in front of my house. She was pulling a little red wagon, waving an umbrella and singing, “I can’t read, I can’t read,” at the top of her lungs.
The truth is, I am a fast and sloppy reader. [...]
Escapism
Posted in School, Small Moments, reading, tagged Joseph C. Lincoln, reading, School, Small Moments on 12 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first two weeks of the semester are over, only thirteen to go. There is sooo much to learn. A doctor I used to work for tells nursing students that school is “like trying to drink from a fire-hose.” That is exactly what it is like. This term feels like two fire-hoses. I am doing my best to keep track of assignments and [...]
I’m In Love With John McPhee (Again)
Posted in reading, tagged Books, John McPhee, reading on 2 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First I fell for the idea of John McPhee. I worked in a bookstore and the long shelf of his books with white covers and neat black titles attracted me. They were filed under Essays/Memoirs, which of course categorized them as serious reading and not fluff. Whenever I dusted around them or shelved more of [...]
And The First Audio-Book of Fall 2008 Is…
Posted in reading, tagged Books, reading on 24 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Founding Fish by John McPhee. More on this later.
Four Words
Posted in School, reading, tagged Books, reading, School on 12 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Four words can explain the lack of posts in the last couple of weeks: Final Exam and Anna Karenina.
I got through about 300 pages of Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and The White before throwing in the towel and moving from nineteenth-century London to nineteenth-century Russia. Excuse me while I go curl up in my chair [...]
Checking Things Off
Posted in School, reading, tagged Chemistry, School, To Do Lists on 7 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Checked off my “To Do” list today – take genetics final, mail swap package, return very overdue inter-library loan book. Also, eat yummy fried chicken dinner with onion rings and gluten-free beer. (There was no green vegetable – the kids are on vacation.)
It was a good, busy day. Tomorrow I go back to quant class. [...]
