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and the song-birds just going it
Jan. 29th, 2021 08:39 am1. One day this week, there were about a million robins (plus some other birds I couldn't really identify because I don't see well and also don't know what birds look like LOL) in the yard after a rain, so Fiona and I sat on the front steps and watched them. They were so loud, and they were making so many different kinds of calls, and it was beautiful. I have to admit that I've never really paid much attention to bird calls. I mean, I know what the mourning dove and the woodpecker and the hawk sound like because they are so distinctive, but that's about it. The author I study, Ouida, is always rhapsodizing about bird song, and I've never really gotten it before, but faced with such sheer volume of bird music, I finally got it.
2. I submitted a piece about fostering connection in online classes to a conference that has decided to do an e-publication instead of a virtual conference this year. I had excellent luck with article submissions last year, and I hope it will carry over to this one. *crosses fingers*
3.
Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels by Nicola Diane Thompson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is fantastic. Thompson writes about the gendered expectations of the reading public as revealed by reviews of their work in the periodical press with Charles Reade, Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge as extended examples. For instance, she argues that Trollope's fall from favor by the end of the 19th century is attributable to his focus on character, the domestic setting of his novels, and his prolific writing (all seen as traits of women writers).
I really like Thompson's writing style; she is very accessible with little jargon.
This book made me want to read a Geraldine Jewsbury novel and read more about her life. She was one of the most important woman reviewers of the 19th century. I've read some of Jewsbury's reviews (of Ouida, naturally) but none of her other work.
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4.
Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is just too old. So much has changed technologically in the last eleven years that the majority of this book is outdated. Warnock spends a lot of time talking about how to deal with issues that current learning management systems just solve automatically for instructors. His ideas about online pedagogy are solid, and if someone has never taught online before, I think she'd find some good information here, but I wouldn't recommend this particular book because it's so outdated. For someone who's been teaching online for over a decade, there's nothing new for me here.
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2. I submitted a piece about fostering connection in online classes to a conference that has decided to do an e-publication instead of a virtual conference this year. I had excellent luck with article submissions last year, and I hope it will carry over to this one. *crosses fingers*
3.
Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels by Nicola Diane ThompsonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is fantastic. Thompson writes about the gendered expectations of the reading public as revealed by reviews of their work in the periodical press with Charles Reade, Emily Bronte, Anthony Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge as extended examples. For instance, she argues that Trollope's fall from favor by the end of the 19th century is attributable to his focus on character, the domestic setting of his novels, and his prolific writing (all seen as traits of women writers).
I really like Thompson's writing style; she is very accessible with little jargon.
This book made me want to read a Geraldine Jewsbury novel and read more about her life. She was one of the most important woman reviewers of the 19th century. I've read some of Jewsbury's reviews (of Ouida, naturally) but none of her other work.
View all my reviews
4.
Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott WarnockMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is just too old. So much has changed technologically in the last eleven years that the majority of this book is outdated. Warnock spends a lot of time talking about how to deal with issues that current learning management systems just solve automatically for instructors. His ideas about online pedagogy are solid, and if someone has never taught online before, I think she'd find some good information here, but I wouldn't recommend this particular book because it's so outdated. For someone who's been teaching online for over a decade, there's nothing new for me here.
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