Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Welcome 2011

Having been on hiatus from school for the last two weeks, I was able to read several fabulous books that I want to write about over the next few weeks. I read the amazing new novel, Room, as well as A Short History of Women, and Pat Conroy's latest, My Reading Life. I am halfway through Freedom, a massive and excellent novel by Jonathan Franzen. The seniors are reading some wonderful plays this quarter including Death of a Salesman,Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Waiting for Godot. It should be a whirlwind quarter. My plan is to write weekly, so new posts should abound. As my hero Kurt Vonnegut would say, "And so it goes...."