I have to chose two books in Immortal bird, What to look for in winter, Why be happy when you could be normal?, The great Northern express.
Being a sucker for travel writing, I will go with The Great Northern express. Have been reading lately a lot on children with problems growing. Will rest that feeling for a while. My Dyslexia is Philip Schultz's life with dyslexia. Immortal Bird is a double blow with a child having to surmount great challenges twice. I will be on the lookout for Why be happy when you could be normal?.
I have chosen What to expect in Winter. It seems a bit related to Fiction ruined my family.
Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Organic poetry
In the foreword of On Poetry and Craft, Ted's views on how to revise poetry makes one look at a poem like an organic whole.
Carolyn Kizer refers to her poem The Great Blue heron revised by Roethke.
Poets Roethke admired - Louise Bogan, Leonie Adams, Ruth pitter
In The Heron, I like
The wide wings flap but once to lift him up, at once taking away the power from the heron described till now.
Carolyn Kizer refers to her poem The Great Blue heron revised by Roethke.
Poets Roethke admired - Louise Bogan, Leonie Adams, Ruth pitter
In The Heron, I like
The wide wings flap but once to lift him up, at once taking away the power from the heron described till now.
The Animal Connection
Cutmarks
Locard's exchange
Thermoluminescence dating
Grammar from lexicon
Bates Goodman paper.
expressive language at 200 words and grammar at 400.
Theory of mind
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Another breed - Lhasa Apso from a colleague.
Cutmarks
Locard's exchange
Thermoluminescence dating
Grammar from lexicon
Bates Goodman paper.
expressive language at 200 words and grammar at 400.
Theory of mind
*********
Another breed - Lhasa Apso from a colleague.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Twenty first amendment
A while ago I learnt that one of the restaurants could not serve alcohol as they didnt have the license. I wondered if it was an industrial area and the law didnt want workers intoxicating themselves. From Beverage control law, I figure, maybe that municipality has already used up its number of licenses in other restaurants.
Author Jay wexler in The Odd clause, explains the twenty first amendment and Original package doctrine in its relation.
Author Jay wexler in The Odd clause, explains the twenty first amendment and Original package doctrine in its relation.
How kids eat cupcakes
Today I learnt of Madhubani art.
A plate with two soft
white bread rounds
what sweet is this?
Something exotic like
rasmalai
A white chocolate cupcake
cut in two
with the colourful topping
devoured by the kid.
He made dragon with cups. I mistook it for a caterpillar.
A plate with two soft
white bread rounds
what sweet is this?
Something exotic like
rasmalai
A white chocolate cupcake
cut in two
with the colourful topping
devoured by the kid.
He made dragon with cups. I mistook it for a caterpillar.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Opposite of dyslexia
The Anti Romantic Child
Astrophil and Stella
Nutting by Wordsworth.
The book is filled with Wordsworth's lines of poetry. For every instance, the author finds a way of introducing us to lines of WW. Its like old Indian movies which had characters go into singing verses. Enter son. He too quotes lines from poems. While searching for one of the stories 'Time of wonder' on the net, I came across hyperlexia and just brushed it off as a smart word engineered by a parent for their child's babbliness. Having just read 'My Dyslexia' by Philip schultz, I wasnt ready for another special needs.
Little did I realise that the book I was reading was on it. The readers realise that the kid has been playing back what he is been told, at the same time as the mom. Once she is informed with the reasons as to why her son is unable to do certain things because of his condition, readers too are eased into the situation at hand.
This book is so different from the ones that I have read recently on the subject of parents and their experiences with a special needs child. Author Gilman's search all the way through to help her son in interacting with his peers is out there for the reader to a close detail of how she had instructions everyday for her kid to suit his structured brain which like rituals yet modifying it everyday to introduce him to the dynamic of real life. She acknowledges the effort of all the teachers, therapists and other parents who understood her kids needs. Its this element that is different from the other books.
Towards the end, the author talks about how hyperlexia is viewed as opposite of dyslexia. This chimes with dyslexics having a creative edge in My Dyslexia. This is like the opposites in Unbreakable movie.
At many points, she finds that her professional English professor life and her personal life meet due to the presence of poetry in both as a bedrock for her son's growth as well as her own.
The author never betrays a sense of 'why me or why my child', she's long won that battle. She gets positive enforcement from everyone around that her child brings joy into their life added with the confidence that they think she can care well for her child. All that emailing to convince people when she might be seen as not helping the case by chosing to put her son off medication. Of why ADD drugs were not the best course for her child. Congress involved in capping drugs.
I went into this case thinking that there is no media coverage like the autism-vaccine thing. A law helps make a conscious choice of sticking to cognitive therapy and shun medication.
Reading too soon
Out of sync child
Swinger of birches
Astrophil and Stella
Nutting by Wordsworth.
The book is filled with Wordsworth's lines of poetry. For every instance, the author finds a way of introducing us to lines of WW. Its like old Indian movies which had characters go into singing verses. Enter son. He too quotes lines from poems. While searching for one of the stories 'Time of wonder' on the net, I came across hyperlexia and just brushed it off as a smart word engineered by a parent for their child's babbliness. Having just read 'My Dyslexia' by Philip schultz, I wasnt ready for another special needs.
Little did I realise that the book I was reading was on it. The readers realise that the kid has been playing back what he is been told, at the same time as the mom. Once she is informed with the reasons as to why her son is unable to do certain things because of his condition, readers too are eased into the situation at hand.
This book is so different from the ones that I have read recently on the subject of parents and their experiences with a special needs child. Author Gilman's search all the way through to help her son in interacting with his peers is out there for the reader to a close detail of how she had instructions everyday for her kid to suit his structured brain which like rituals yet modifying it everyday to introduce him to the dynamic of real life. She acknowledges the effort of all the teachers, therapists and other parents who understood her kids needs. Its this element that is different from the other books.
Towards the end, the author talks about how hyperlexia is viewed as opposite of dyslexia. This chimes with dyslexics having a creative edge in My Dyslexia. This is like the opposites in Unbreakable movie.
At many points, she finds that her professional English professor life and her personal life meet due to the presence of poetry in both as a bedrock for her son's growth as well as her own.
The author never betrays a sense of 'why me or why my child', she's long won that battle. She gets positive enforcement from everyone around that her child brings joy into their life added with the confidence that they think she can care well for her child. All that emailing to convince people when she might be seen as not helping the case by chosing to put her son off medication. Of why ADD drugs were not the best course for her child. Congress involved in capping drugs.
I went into this case thinking that there is no media coverage like the autism-vaccine thing. A law helps make a conscious choice of sticking to cognitive therapy and shun medication.
Reading too soon
Out of sync child
Swinger of birches
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