Yes, I also was mad that part of the campaign for our new(is) Central Library was "we don't say sssh any more." I mean, reading is a quiet activity, right?

Mine is there but dormant. I didn't know how much to worry about fake accounts in my name so I didn't just delete it but I haven't checked in over there in a loooong time.

It’s wonderful in any setting. 🙂

Oh, for sure. But I love the class discussions.

Yes, though he’s not actually a personal favorite! I regularly assign both Tess and Jude the Obscure.

When I do retire, if anyone wants me to come do book club discussions of Victorian doorstoppers just hmu. Reasonable rates (free)! 🙃

Just finished 1927 in Woolf’s diaries. She cut her hair short! They bought a car! Oh, and she also published To the Lighthouse and started writing Orlando. 🙃

I’m so sorry.

And banning screens brings us slap up against accommodations. Yes, you can allow exceptions but then you are forcing disclosure, which we have long been instructed is bad practice (which seems right to me).

Also the refrain of comments like "now we don't just say 'go write your essay' and slap a grade on it with no attention to process" is kind of insulting in the assumptions it makes about how people taught pre-AI. Discussion-based and processed based pedagogy is not new?!

It’s really good so far. I’ve found his recent ones hit or Miss for me but IMHO when he’s good he’s just really really good.

Ian McEwan's What We Can Know.

Good lord.

Yes, I mean of course I do understand that! 🙃

Ha, fair!

I have read some of the books and enjoyed them! I thought the show was fine but I agree: a series would have let them develop the characters, which is the best part of the books.

My grandmother used to say that young people look at old people and don't realize they have done all the things the young person thinks are cool and sexy. 😉