Drawing for Product Designers (Portfolio Skills: Product Design) by Kevin Henry- research/reference bought for Faculty Grant
Library Books for me:
Library Books for Hiro:
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
This was my bedtime read aloud to Hiro for the month. It had great excerpts of recommendation by
Katherine Applegate of The One and Only Ivan fame. And illustrated by I Want My Hat Back's Jon
Klassen. It’s a story about a boy and
his pet Fox. They are separated and the
book goes back and fourth from the view point of the boy and the fox, which
makes for an interesting format.
Hiro was not into it as much, the funny parts were not ha-ha
funny but, “oh I get it,” amusing. The
author used the word loping, loped too much and it was a hard book to read
aloud. Not sure why, but the words were
not easy to read out loud.
Another confusing part of the narrative was that there is a
war on. We are not sure what country the
story takes place in, though because of the association with baseball, I am
assuming it takes place in the US. It is
not clear if the story takes place in the far away past, or is it supposed to
be the dystopic future. These things are
not clear because 50% of the book is told through the fox’s p.o.v., but the boy’s
narration is not any better. One great
character that I as an adult gravitated to was Vola, the one legged ex-military
EMT, with her marionettes.
If I had to rate this book I’d probably give it a 6/7 out of
10
We have a shop tech, Zach, at Pratt that is a reader, in that he is never without a book. Lately he has been reading A Hologram for the King, and I tell him that I could never get through his first book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- (which was given to be by a co-worker in 2000 when I left my job as a welder at a set building company to teach.)
Zach lists off all the books by Eggers and tells me this one is a quick read, and that I should try reading him again- as he as greatly improved 16 years later .
This novel, written in all dialogue between a kidnapper and his handful of kidnapped- an astronaut, congressman, ex teacher, even his mother is indeed a one day read. It's good, but frustrating. Similar to having conversations with the Verizon customer service agent, or the annoying injustice you feel while watching the news. This shows how back-asswards living in the United states can be, and how one man tries to make sense of it all.
Now I'm on to his semi-fictionalized biography of a Sudanese Lost Boy titled What is the What...just as frustratingly good.
