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Reading While Nursing 8 (Early October)
Jyothsna. If Wishes Were Aeroplanes . Notion Press, 2019. If Wishes Were Aeroplanes reimagines Jane Austin'e Persuasion in a contemporary Indian setting. It features a feminist heroine, a university lecturer of English literature in a women's college in Delhi, India, and narrates the journey in which she was torn away from, and returns to, her first love over a span of fifteen years.
Reading While Nursing 7
The Year of Magical Thinking , by Joan Didion I read Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking because I was looking for something to read to give to a friend who just lost her husband. He passed away in an accident, and I do not know what to do to console my friend seeing her losing weight and facing everyone in the farewell event. The book consists only of Didion's monologue, which records how she thinks and suffers after having lost her husband to a sudden heart arrest. It was until the end that we knew that she also lost her daughter eighteen months afterwards. What she reveals in the book is heart-breaking. Some readers complained that she is narcissistic because there is no one else in the narrative but herself, her thoughts, her anxiety, and her calmness. I would think, however, that of course she has to be narcissistic. The dead have left, the living are alone to figure out what has happened. Of course, one has to focus on him-/her-self, and no surrogate can...
Reading While Nursing 6
El Deafo , by Cece Bell A friend mentioned this graphic novel to me, when I told her that my daughter has microtia in one of the ears. The heroine in El Deafo loses her hearing at the age of four after having been infected with meningitis. The ups and downs in her social life from kindergarten to elementary school in the book show what a world with little sound is like, and what anyone with hearing need is special and different at the same time just like all other people. I like the point she makes that when people with normal hearing ability try to "help" those with hearing need and to be over-cautious of the difference between them, they usually fail to see how they are all the same and how people with need "wish" to be treated. This is an important reminder to me, who tend to be very imposing in many cases in good or bad ways. My friend also bought my daughter another picture book, Rebekah's Superpower . The author wrote this book for her daughter, who has ...
Reading While Nursing 6 Poetry
The New Yorker April 6, 2020 Jose Antonio Rodriguez. "Shelter". 48-49. "In that illusion of shelter, though perhaps They were closer to poetry's pursuit, that edge of oblivion Where words begin becoming insufficient [...]"
Reading While Nursing 5 Journals
The New Yorker (Jan 20, 2020) Menand. Louis. "How Affirmative Action Has Evolved". 62-68. The New Yorker (Mar 23, 2020) Dyer, Geoff. “Existential Inconvenience: Life in the Shadow of Coronavirus”. 17-18. Gawande, Atul. “The Blight: How Our Economy Has Created an Epidemic of Despair”. 59-63. (Health Insurance; suicide rate of white working class; USA problem) The New Yorker (Mar 30, 2020) Leprechaun, Jill. “Don’t Come Any Closer: What’s at Stake in Our Fables of Contagion?”. 22-25. (Literature of pandemics) Gopnik, Adam. “Abundance of Caution: Entering a Time of Containment, New York is at its best and its worst.” 38-55. (Pandemic, social class) Denby, David. “Chain Me UP: Harry Houdini and the art of escape”. 67-70. “Houdini evoked actual cruelties - slavery and imprisonment, people cast into filthy cells and tormented for years. [...] He burrowed into the unconscious of the human race, evoking types of public sadism that had been suppressed, only to r...
Online resource for kids at home
PE with Joe here Music Lesson with Lindsey here here Lunch doodles with Mo Willems here CBeebies:Andy’s Wilde Workout Animation The Land Before Time Dinosaur Train
Reading while Nursing 1
Hellman, Lillian. The Children’s Hour. (1934) (finished reading on 31/Mar/2020) Film adaptions and other information here here