Monday, November 9, 2009

Fútbol

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Novel: Exposure by Mal Peet
Novel: Renaldo by James McCreath
Film: El portero (2000)
Film: Atlético San Pancho (2001)
Film: Goal! (2005)
Nonfiction: The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt, Chapters 8, 10, 13, 15, 18
Poetry: Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
Wikipedia: History of association football

Thursday, November 5, 2009

What the creature read

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Novel: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Epic Poem: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Novel: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Biographies: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (aka Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives) by Plutarch
Novel: Confessions of the Creature by Gary Inbinder
Nonfiction: The Romantic Frankenstein by Anneli Elsäßer, Chapter 4: "Knowledge"
Wikipedia: Frankenstein's monster

What Precious Read

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Novel: Push by Sapphire
Film: Precious (2009)
Poem: "The Tyger" by William Blake
Fiction: "The Life of Lucy Fern" by Moira Crane
Novel: Pat King's Family by Karen McFall
Biography: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
Picture book: Wanted Dead Or Alive: The True Story Of Harriet Tubman by Ann Mcgovern
Biography: Malcolm X by Arnold Adoff
Short story collection: A Piece of Mine by J. California Cooper
Novel: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Poetry: Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
Picture book: The Black BC's by Lucille Clifton
Picture book: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Picture book: The Story of a Little Mouse Trapped in a Book by Monique Felix
Picture book: The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring by Lucille Clifton
Picture book: Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats
Wikipedia: Literacy in the United States

Monday, November 2, 2009

Male, Colored and Gay

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Novel: God Says No by James Hannaham
Short story: "Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes
Film: Brother to Brother (2004)
Collection: Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent edited by Thomas H.Wirth
DVD: The Closet: Platinum Edition, Vol. 1 (2008)
Article: "Revelations" by Kelefa Sanneh
Article: "Caushun: Say it loud: I'm gay...and I'm proud" by Jane Czyzselska
Website: http://thecolorofcourage.com/
Website: http://www.gmad.org/
Wikipedia: LGBT topics and Afro-Americans in the Americas

Searching for Heaven

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Novel: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Novel: The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album
Novel: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Film: What Dreams May Come (1998)
Film: Defending Your Life (1991)
Film: After Life (ワンダフルライフ) (1998)
Play: Everyman
Short story:"Safe Passage" by Ramona Ausubel
Poetry: Paradiso Sphere Nine by Dante degli Alighieri
Wikipedia: Kingdom of God