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Discussion/reading guides and Activities: http://www.scott.lib.mn.us/kite.html http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/kite_runner.html - I think these are similar to the questions in the back of the book. http://www.sjsu.edu/reading/KR2006.htm Bowling Green's Activities with the book - http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/infosrv/cre/runner.html

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From Reading across Rhode Island, 2005 Really good resources in this list, lots of interviews.

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NYTimes August 2007http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/education/08books.html?_r=1&_r1&oref=logiin&pagewant&oref=slogin“Summer reading programs straddle the book-club phenomenon, in which people enjoy talking about books, not critically, and academic reading, which students approach very differently,” said Barbara Fister, a librarian at Gustavus Adolphus. “I think summer books used to be more for

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About the Kite Runner and discussion questions: http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/kite_runner.html California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo – 2005http://www.preface.calpoly.edu/2005/index.html Michigan State University “One Book, One Community” – 2005http://www.onebook.msu.edu/OneBookOneCommunity-MichiganStateUniversity.html The following using the Kite Runner

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Hmmm...only in pirated copies can Afghans see this film. From the NYTimes today:"There has long been concern about angry reaction in Afghanistan to the screen adaptation of the novel, particularly a pivotal scene in which a boy is raped. In late November, Paramount Pictures, the film studio that released “The Kite Runner,” spirited the film’s four young actors out of Kabul to the United Arab

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We read this in our book group a couple years ago. Now we're considering it as a summer read for our peer educators at Rollins College. Since I read it, the movie has come out... so there's even more buzz than there used to be. I'm going to collect resources about this book and the movie and the author here.Here's the beginning of a NYT review of the book from 2003. It hints at the breadth of

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Book club book for May 2007. The Arab-Israeli conflict becomes clearer to me, with the identity crises of a husband and wife in Tel Aviv. Images too clearly drawn to read sometimes, of people being blown up and lives being torn apart. This Algerian former police officer now living in France conveys the complexity of identities: Bedouin, Palestinian, across-the-wall Arab, Israeli Arab, Israeli.

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Go to the blog for our thoughts about Morocco after spending some time there in January, 2007. My post is at the end of this, or the previous one in this blog.

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Houses, Households and Harems: Reflections of Morocco Walking through the narrow alleyways in the old part of Moroccan cities, the medina, what dominates are the high walls around you, except in the marketplaces, with their tiny shops, shallow stalls shelved from floor to ceiling with goods. What is behind the walls? Author and scholar Fatima Mernissi describes her house

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December 21, 2006 Saying Yes to Mess By PENELOPE GREEN IT is a truism of American life that we’re too darn messy, or we think we are, and we feel really bad about it. Our desks and dining room tables are awash with paper; our closets are bursting with clothes and sports equipment and old files; our laundry areas boil; our basements and garages seethe. And so do our partners — or our

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State of Siege, by Juan Goytisolopublished in 1995, English translation by Helen Lane, 2002, City Lights BooksMe and The MajorAn Interview With Spanish novelist Juan Goytisoloby Ben Ehrenreich Fall 2002http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/178,ehrenreich,39006,21.htmlExcept for a scattering of dream fragments and apocalyptic fantasies, State of Siege, Juan Goytisolo's eighth novel to be published

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Academia Nuts book club here in Winter Park/OrlandoThe first of this academic year's readings:Marilynne Robinson's GileadBalm in 'Gilead' for Robinson's fans Kind, elderly preacher faces death and sin in author's first novel in 23 years http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/21/RVG7T9PUO31.DTL Reviewed by Olivia Boler, San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, November 21, 2004It's the

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So what now, that the day becomesred under the weight of its watch -do we wait and watch the sun deflateor light a flame and continue the debauch? Discovered while I was perusing son Kerry's poetry website, linked to his blog, Kerinth's Edda.Lots of little lovelies in there. Important for me not to forget those older repositories, poems and ideas set to 'paper' before the collective Sewers of

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This book: A trip to read.Get in the head of a 12? year old with Asperger's, or high-functioning autism.I love the logic trees, the visuals. Temple Grandin's life in a novel.This blue cover that of the U.K. edition, the original. See the publisher's website for more, starting with a reading by someone sounding just like Christopher, the narrator, the boy the book is all about. And the review

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This from Sunday, April 30th's "The Way We Eat" in the New York Times Magazine: Olde School: The thoroughly modern chef Heston Blumenthal gets a Tudor tutorial. "I had came (sic) across a manuscript of Le Viander de Taillevent. He was the chef to the Palais Royal in Paris. I think it was the 14th century.. . .And in there was this wonderful — wonderful? fascinating as opposed to wonderful; it's

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Son Kerry (Kerinth) posted this to the collective sewersofbabel.com. It gets me into the sound of online gaming talk... If WWII was an MMORPGHere's an excerpt from the post on 4 Guys from Viewpoint...to get you to click on the link and read on:(On the linked page you'll see the usernames in different colors, making it a bit easier to follow.)*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.**Eisenhower has

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Our book club is reading The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, an historical novel, set in the age of the Medici in Italy. The first chapter is one of the most arresting I've read; it grabbed me, sucked me in. I read in the British Council's Arts online site http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth32that she is known as a detective writer, and this is her first historical novel. She has

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Our book club is reading The Known World by Edward P. Jones. He was one of four authors in last February's Winter with the Writers at Rollins College. I've seen the video of that hour-long interview with our writer in residence, Connie May Fowler.Here are a few more interviews with Jones or critical reviews, culled from the many websites on the internet. Some are written reviews, others

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The word of the week is "processing."My tutor staff meeting this week was devoted to understanding more about how to help students with learning disabilities. I've found that understanding our own learning strengths and challenges makes us better able to help someone with a different learning profile. So this meeting was a vehicle to learn more about our own learning styles first, then to look

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Cleaning out my kitchen cabinets looking for things I haven't used in a year or two or five, finding boxes I packed from Mom's (Baba's) house in SC especially for Kerry and Alex when they set up their own working kitchens. Realizing how Baba would love knowing that Kerry in Sarasota is using her things in his new abode. Warm fuzzies inside. Yay.

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Son Kerry and friends have a dot-com website called the Sewers of Babel. Perhaps the name came from the online journal The Tower of Babel? The contributors, mostly all New College of Florida students and alums, gather news and literature from all over the world. I love the index on the right side of the screen, giving the reader the ability to search for types of posts by each of contributor;

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The almost-monthly book club I joined a year ago is discussing Alexander McCall Smith's book The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, the first in his series about Precious Ramotswe, from Botwana, Southern Africa, where Charlie and I met in 1972. I read it several years ago, and in this rereading, I tried to time-travel to that year and a half I spent so far from home.http://www.randomhouse.com/

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After reading so much of Kerry's blog (now a .com at www.sewersofbabel.com; I have to figure out how to post that on this page) and Brooke's (www.rivervision.com) and Andy Rock's new one (yourdadsblog.blogspot.com), I decided to create my own. Not sure what I'll do with it yet, but at least I can post on Andy's, as he has set his to allow posts only from members, which I did, too. Gardening

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