nknowles Reading

At this site, I'll post regarding my own reading.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Welcome Scott Elliott

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Welcome to the next installment of the Roundhouse Reading Series, generously funded by Union County Cultural Coalition, Cook Memorial L...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Dear Jennifer Boyden

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Dear Jennifer Boyden, Where have you been all my life? I don't think I really saw poetry until now, or at least what poetry can do ...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Jo Walton's Among Others

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Jo Walton's Among Others tells the story of Mori Phelps, a Welsh 15-year-old who has survived a traumatic experience caused by magi...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness

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In her article “Is Gender Necessary?” Ursula K. Le Guin mentions that her novel Left Hand of Darkness arose from 1960s feminism and her ...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

The Windup Girl

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 Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl is an important book because of its vision of global warming and of food insecurity arising from f...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

A Princess of Mars

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 My 10-year-old daughter and I read Edgar Rice Burroughs's  A Princes of Mars out loud and enjoyed the adventure.  Because I was r...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Connie Willis, My Hero

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Connie Willis is my hero. Wow! I listened to her novel All Clear as an audiobook and was astounded by her storytelling and also by the det...
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I teach English and writing at Eastern Oregon University. I have a daughter, two pushy dogs, and two cats.
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