Projects and Warnings
Sep. 7th, 2015 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayGrandson Jason and I had temporarily, I guess, renewed our agreement to read together as a sort of end of summer preparation for the start of school. We had taken on Amelia Lost and were nearly though it when he started overnighting at his mom's. Which, once more, put an end to our reading together.
He had regained some fluency, near the end of that, and I think we can actually finish the book in one or two sessions today. Which would be good because classes start tomorrow in the city schools and we'll be waiting to see what demands will be made on his time as far as assigned outside reading from his ELA (English Language Arts) class.
I'm OK with this because, well, either way he'll be reading and we anticipate other legitimate demands on his time such as trying out for the school's modified (7th and 8th grade) soccer and basketball teams which I think teach lessons not necessarily learned in the classroom.
For myself, I'll continue my LiveJournal editing and compilation project along with some personal reading. I've decided to search out the books of Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem as well as the movies based on them. I was initially quite taken with the 2002 version of Solaris starring George Clooney and directed by Steven Soderbergh and that's probably where I'll start because an interesting and complicating aspect of this is the problem of translation, from Polish to French to English and from the book to three quite different movies.
Anyway, hopefully this is another of those things which will run its tedious and esoteric course behind the scenes, never to be mentioned on LiveJournal again. But then, who knows? At least you've been warned...
LPK
LiveJournal
9.7.2015
He had regained some fluency, near the end of that, and I think we can actually finish the book in one or two sessions today. Which would be good because classes start tomorrow in the city schools and we'll be waiting to see what demands will be made on his time as far as assigned outside reading from his ELA (English Language Arts) class.
I'm OK with this because, well, either way he'll be reading and we anticipate other legitimate demands on his time such as trying out for the school's modified (7th and 8th grade) soccer and basketball teams which I think teach lessons not necessarily learned in the classroom.
For myself, I'll continue my LiveJournal editing and compilation project along with some personal reading. I've decided to search out the books of Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem as well as the movies based on them. I was initially quite taken with the 2002 version of Solaris starring George Clooney and directed by Steven Soderbergh and that's probably where I'll start because an interesting and complicating aspect of this is the problem of translation, from Polish to French to English and from the book to three quite different movies.
Anyway, hopefully this is another of those things which will run its tedious and esoteric course behind the scenes, never to be mentioned on LiveJournal again. But then, who knows? At least you've been warned...
LPK
LiveJournal
9.7.2015
