Books read during Spring semester

• Kafka on the Shore, Invisible Man, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Good news, for a change, The Four Giants of Russian Literature, Dante's Divine comedy, No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life, Tripmaster Monkey, Lady Oracle, To the Lighthouse, Song of the Lark, An Artist of the Floating World, Fahrenheit 451, History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Oranges are not the only fruit, Maria W Stewart: America's First Black Female Political Writer and Speaker, The Conquest, Paradise, Little Black book of Stories, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Beloved, Einstein's Monsters, Kindred, Northanger Abby, Lydia's Story, First Love, Last Rites, The Light Fantastic, Religous Literacies, Sorrows of Young Werther, The Bondwoman's tale, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, The Stranger, The Blue Death, Epic of Gilgamesh, All I Did Was Ask, Asking the Right Questions, Equal Rites, The Plague, Elantris, Birthday Boys
  

Birthdays and Valentines

Big News, Big News. We can start with the day that Kyla and Daria turned two years of age. They had a good birthday at their Grandma and Grandpa Firl's house. They were really spoiled with presents sent to them from all over.

Kyla and Daria enjoy the attention of everybody singing to them.

They did well in blowing out their candles.














They really liked the cake!















Both the girls really got into the spirit of unwrapping their presents.











































For Valentine's Day the girls received a special treat - their very first Twinkies!

How our girls like to have fun...

More fun times! Look how high those two jump!
(Even though we try t0 get them to stop)

Happy Birthday Grandma Robertson

Happy Birthday Grandma. We Love You

Jumping fun!

Thanks for the great toys grandma and grandpa!

Reading list I

Books Read from August to mid December. The titles that we would suggest for anyone to read are marked by an asterix. Dirty Job, The Piazza Tales, Candide*, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance*, The Color of Magic, Spook, Kafka: the Torment of Man, My Freshman Year, Guards! Guards! (Discworld #9), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,Staircase of a Thousand Steps, Brave New World*, Clockwork Orange, The Amulet of Samarkand*, Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, Teaching composition as a Social Process, Diversity and Motivation, The Vocation of a Teacher, Teaching Literacies, Extras, Graceling, The Art of Literary Research, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Analyzing Prose, Specials*, Pretties*, Uglies*, Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield, The Golem's Mighty Swing, The Metamorphosis*, Maus, Cairo, TheTruth (Discworld #25)*, Academic Literacies, Performance of Self, A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, Theory and Practice for Writing Tutors, Hawthorne: a Life, Bone*, Devil in the White City, The Book of Mormon*, The Brothers Karamozov*

Christmas time is here. As always, we have been very spoiled. Here are some of the images from Christmas.