Archive for the ‘Reading level: Grown up’ Category
Monday, February 27th, 2006
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| Author: | Mark Costello |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | For grown-ups
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| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | For grown-ups
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| Genre: | Fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2003 |
Authors of novels like to think that they create civilizations using words alone. And so do computer programmers.
In The Big If, secret service people guarding the Vice President of the United States do the same. Could it be that everyone does this to survive. (Except maybe not everyone is self-aware enough to know they are doing it.) |
The recursion is dizzying. This involving novel draws us in to all three worlds:
- The video game eco-system being developed by a computer software company
- The terrifying and possibly self-igniting "scenarios" that a team of government security agents must build in order to do their jobs.
- The world of real estate agents, families, politicians, insurance adjusters, a world built of words that is surprising in its realism.
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Saturday, January 15th, 2005
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| Author: | Louise Erdrich |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | For grown-ups
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| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | For grown-ups
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| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2001 |
Woman is mistaken for a priest, and ends up adopting his identity and ministering to an Indian reservation in the early twentieth century. It's interesting to learn the background of some of the characters we met in Love Medicine. |
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Posted in Conceptual: for grown ups, Culture, Dealing with bullies, Death is a central theme, Female protagonist, Fiction, Gifted, History, Reading level: Grown up | Comments Closed
