I have several students this year who are voracious readers. These kids read a couple of hundred pages a day and power through 4 or 5 novels a week. Do they stop to think about what they've read? Probably not very often, and so I try to engage them in conversation about their reading, even beyond our class assignments. The other day, a student was telling me about a series of books she had recently discovered and that she was enjoying very much. "You know what?" she said. "I've decided that I really like old-fashioned books."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Like books published in 1988," she explained, "there's just something quaint about them."
That's ridiculous. Also, there is nothing quaint from 1988. At all.
ReplyDeleteI don't even consider 1956 old for books. Maybe the 30's and 20's, for instance, the Great Gatsby. What "old" books are there from 1988 anyway?