I have survived the dicking and the fucking and the parceling out of Reconciliation's naked body

[lunabee34]

1.

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This translation is incredibly explicit--fair warning if you want to teach it.



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The students were quite good about the whole thing. Most of them thought the play was funny, there was participation in class discussion, and I even overheard a few of them saying they might want to write their papers about the play. No one spontaneously combusted or threatened to get me fired, so success!

2. Additional bookses

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I enjoyed this for McPhee's stories about writing for the New Yorker and for the background on how he wrote his nonfiction books.



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Seaweed, a Cornish Idyll by Edith Ellis

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is such a strange and wonderful book.

I didn't realize any Victorian novels blatantly discussed polyamory, but here we go.

Additional themes include the intersection of masculinity, desire, sex, and sexuality; traditional views of women vs seeing them as erotic beings; and marriage.

I really enjoyed this one.



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3. A rec

blood, love, and rhetoric by sourpastels
Stranger Things
Steve/Eddie
Glorious slow burn

Comments

[amejisuto]

Yay! So glad you didn't spontaneously combust! LOL!

[lunabee34]

Me too! LOL

[thistleingrey]

Glad no one spontaneously combusted, and glad your students could handle it like the adults they are!

[lunabee34]

I was proud of them!

[trobadora]

So glad the students liked it!

[lunabee34]

They did! I was pleasantly surprised.

[jesse_the_k]

No attacks of giggles from students in the back?

I'm duly impressed by their deportment.

[lunabee34]

There was laughing but they still did the analysis work. I'll take it.

[kore]

Yay mature students and not getting fired!

[lunabee34]

Win/win!

[spikedluv]

I'm glad teaching the book went well. *bg*

[lunabee34]

Me too!

[minoanmiss]

I'm glad you survived Lysistrata, bwee

[lunabee34]

Now all I need is the T-shirt. LOL

[minoanmiss]

I mean, I can make one for you!

[lunabee34]

Ha! That would be hilarious.

But seriously, you don't need to do that. I know you are super busy right now. <3

[archersangel]

glad everyone made it through lysistrata without combustion or threats.

[lunabee34]

Heeee. Me, too!

[scintilla10]

Hurray that teaching Lysistrata went relatively smoothly! :)

And hurray for a Steve/Eddie rec! *bookmarking for later*

[lunabee34]

I've got a couple more recs coming up in my next post!

[china_shop]

No one spontaneously combusted or threatened to get me fired, so success!

Hee! This should be a metric in performance reviews. :D

(YAY!)

[lunabee34]

It should be a slot on my annual evaluation.