Kate McDowell on Storytelling

That I in no way have time to read right now, what with all the other projects I have cooking. But I borrowed them with the idea that I would eventually look at storytellign in public libraries as one instance of the culture of children's public spaces. Lots of ways I could frame this: culture of arts experiences for children, culture of literary experiences for children, or as part of children in public. When do children get to be part of the public? Books include: Habermas (good old Habermas) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Derevenski, Children and Material Culture (coming out of archaeology) Cross, The Cute and the Cool (contemporary pop culture) Michell and Reid-Walsh, Researching Children's Popular Culture Valentine, Public Space and the Culture of Childhood (contemporary UK)

Here's what I've been/am reading at the bittersweet end of the summer: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd Memoir of a Southern Baptist preacher's wife who starts to see that the feminine and more specifically women in general are left out, excluded, even denigrated by her all-male-god religion up to this point in her life. And then she starts to radically re-envision her relationship to the church, to the divine, to the world. Parts read like a feminism primer, but she doesn't bog down too much in definitions. This book made me appreciate both the era in which I came of age (thank you 1960s/70s feminists!!!) and my own early feisty intuition (at the age of 13) that there was something deeply amiss about the use of the pronoun "He" to refer to God in the Christian tradition. And I came to that book via my new favorite book... Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert I'm not alone in loving this book, but I do truly love it. It's anoth

I'm still new enough to blogging that I haven't done any track back thingys. Here are my quiz results, thanks to http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/ Which PLAIN Jane Are You? Theatre Jane If life were a giant Technicolor musical at all times, you'd be pretty psyched. You take the phrase "all the world's a stage" pretty literally. Take This Quiz More Quizzes