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Old 03-20-2010, 02:27 PM   #1288
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Originally Posted by Reaper16 View Post
Geez, guys. I didn't say it was bad. I said I personally didn't care for mush of it. Its good. I even said it'd be good to teach.
I'm just ****ing with you. I have a strange aesthetic now. I have books that -I- really love because I love them and find them to be challenging. Those tastes tend to be pretty high brow (David Foster Wallace, Pynchon, Rushdie, etc...). Now, though, I have books that I love because I know that my students will love them and be able to read them and be exposed to interesting ideas and be able to "get" them.

The thing is, that the second category is starting to sort of overwhelm the first, and I'm finding myself just enjoying reading YA books for their own sake.
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