Pointed Meanderings: helicopter parenting

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Cease and Desist

You can read about the ways some schools are handling the problem HERE.

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What I Just Finished

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sena Jeter Naslund's Adam and Eve
J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Dan Barker's Godless
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water
Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer
Michael Krasny's Spiritual Envy
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
David A. Kessler's The End of Overeating
Marlen Haushofer's The Wall
D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover
Suzanne Collins' Mockinjay
Suzanne Collins' Catching Fire
David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day
Tana French's Faithful Place
Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games
Tana French's The Likeness
P.D. James' Cover Her Face
Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (reread)
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (reread)
Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book
Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad about My Neck
Paul Harding's Tinkers
Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played with Fire
Deborah L. Rhodes' The Beauty Bias
Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd
Marilynne Robinson's Home
Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
Emily Giffin's Heart of the Matter
Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Patricia Cornwell's The Scarpetta Factor
Daniel Silva's The Defector
Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey
Jodi Picoult's The Tenth Circle
Heather Gudenkauf's The Weight of Silence
Sarah Waters' The Night Watch
Wally Lamb's The Hour I First Believed
Henry James' The Turn of the Screw
Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale
Geneen Roth's Women Food and God
Jodi Picoult's Mercy
Jodi Picoult's Salem Falls
Yann Martel's The Life of Pi
Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian
Jodi Picoult's Keeping Faith
Robert Goolrick's A Reliable Wife
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Ketteridge
Kathryn Stockett's The Help
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

Books on my Nightstand

Ammon Shea's Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna
Doris Lessing's The Grandmothers
Jennifer Weiner's Best Friends Forever
Jodi Picoult's Harvesting the Heart
Matthew Pearl's The Poe Shadow
Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet
Sophia Lee's The Recess
Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King's The Green Mile
Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair
Toni Morrison's Sula
Vivian Diller's Face It: What Women Really Feel As Their Looks Change