{"id":22101,"date":"2022-10-30T10:39:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22101"},"modified":"2022-10-30T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:40:53","slug":"reading-report-10-30-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22101","title":{"rendered":"Reading Report: 10\/30\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the Bus with Rosa Parks<\/em> by Rita Dove<\/strong>: I started this book of poetry back in 2021<\/a>, but got distracted from it repeatedly. Last month I decided that enough was enough. I deliberately sat down and read it, cover to cover, over the course of a few days. My favorites were “Black on a Saturday Night,” “Incarnation in Phoenix,” “Best Western Motor Lodge, AAA Approved,” “The Peach Orchard,” “Against Self-Pity,” and the one I liked the best: “The Pond, Porch-View: Six P.M., Early Spring.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher<\/em> by Bruce Coville<\/strong>: How often is a book title so perfectly self-explanatory? Here is a sweet little book for anyone who ever wished they could hatch and raise a dragon (ooh, me me me!). I would have read this story as a child if I could have, but it hadn’t been published yet. Better late than never.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry Potter \u00e0 L’\u00c9cole Des Sorciers<\/em> by J.K. Rowling<\/strong>: This is the first book I ever read entirely in French. Reading in French is difficult, but I’ve gotten better at it. I know the language well enough to distinguish the parts of speech, and I can make reasonable guesses about the general nature of the words (e.g., “this is a verb of motion,” “this is an adjective having something to do with darkness,” etc.). That allowed me to continue reading even when I couldn’t guess the precise meanings of words, but it made reading a strange experience. So much detail was lost on me, and the images that the words created in my mind were drab. But was I was rewarded with great moments of victoriousness every time I managed to translate a knotty sentence without resorting to the dictionary (I didn’t want to get bogged down in definition hunting!). The big payoff was that I learned a lot of new words. My favorites: chuchoter<\/em> (to whisper), jumeau<\/em> (twin), and the tricky au-dessus<\/em>\/au-dessous<\/em> pair (above\/below).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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