{"id":126,"date":"2007-07-09T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2008-07-24T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T21:11:12","slug":"busy-busy-busyhot-hot-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Busy, busy, busy…Hot, hot, hot…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a crazy time of the year for me. My Science Fiction class is dashing to the finish. I give a final on Wednesday and start the Urban Fantasy class on Thursday. I’ve been grading and grading, reading and rereading. I always reread whatever I make my students read. There’s no way to remember a novel to the same degree as someone who’s just read it no matter how many times you’ve read it or how many notes you’ve taken on it. Fortunately, I enjoy rereading good books. I just finished Robert Charles Wilson’s Blind Lake<\/em> and found myself deeply moved at the end even though I’ve read it a half-dozen times by now. The class has watched all the films we’re going to watch, so I asked them to vote one off the syllabus. The loser was the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em> though several students said they wouldn’t replace any of the five films\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsomething of a first. Tomorrow the booklist will get a similar reevaluation. I fear Murakami might fall though the Bradbury would be my personal choice. I can’t say I particularly enjoyed rereading Fahrenheit 451 <\/em>no matter what Ray says it’s about these days. It’s just too ham-handed. Sarah and I did manage to play a little with a couple of expeditions to the James River to beat the heat. We went down to Texas Beach and rock-hopped out to the islands. Alas, Alice (our aged pup) is too old to make the journey these days. Here’s an old millwheel we came across.<\/p>\n

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