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Dave Schaafsma is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs the Program in English Education. He teaches courses in English teaching methods, and literature. He's the author or co-editor of six books and is in the process of writing more, but I am not here on Goodreads to promote my writing; this is a reading site.
I guess I should say that I almost never accept friend requests from folks who do not review or almost never review. Nothing personal, but that is what "following" is for. I mean, you don't have to be my friend to like my reviews or comment on them, but if you never share any of your thoughts via reviews of books you've read, then it feels like a kinda one-sided friendship, right?
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Dave Schaafsma is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs the Program in English Education. He teaches courses in English teaching methods, and literature. He's the author or co-editor of six books and is in the process of writing more, but I am not here on Goodreads to promote my writing; this is a reading site.
I guess I should say that I almost never accept friend requests from folks who do not review or almost never review. Nothing personal, but that is what "following" is for. I mean, you don't have to be my friend to like my reviews or comment on them, but if you never share any of your thoughts via reviews of books you've read, then it feels like a kinda one-sided friendship, right?
I can also say that once in a while I clear out my friends list if I can see we never connect in any way. Again, nothing personal. Happy reading!
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Dave Schaafsma Jon, I am going to answer this question, but I am going to look through my books first... I love this kind of question, and will take it seriously...
Dave Schaafsma Hi, Marianne. It's an honor to hera from you! I found Charlotte Diary in Pictures" through my library system here in the western suburbs of Chicago. A…moreHi, Marianne. It's an honor to hera from you! I found Charlotte Diary in Pictures" through my library system here in the western suburbs of Chicago. A lot of the books I read are things I find in my Goodreads feed that people are reading and love. A few people had just read and loved her book, Life or Theatre? and I tried to get it, but no one in the Chicago area could find it for me. Yet. Will look again.
So I did see her Diary listed and I thought it was fabulous. My interest in it stemmed initially from the idea of a diary or journal in pictures; I am a kind of student of what people are calling now graphic memoirs, or comics memoirs, and someone named this as an early example of that, and I agree it is.
My interest in the Holocaust I think began with reading American postwar Jewish authors such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Malamud, Roth, who led me to survivor literature, studies of the camps. I'm agnostic now, but when I first was teaching English in 1975 I taught Rabbi Chaim Potok's The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev to my Dutch Reformed high school students, and we looked at Life Magazine's pictorial of Hasidic life in Brooklyn to help us understand what I understood to be extreme religious devotion by the ultra-orthodox Jews there. I was, after all, teaching ultra-orthodox Christians who were also struggling, as Asher Lev was, with how to live IN the world and yet not OF the world.
I would love to read Aftershocks and am going to read it, as soon as possible, so I can have the honor of talking with you about it. Again, I am thrilled you contacted me; I will read it
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Self-care comes in many ways, and you generally learn, as you get older, or most of us do, how to psychically survive. Grief is part of life, and it's hard, but part of life, and you go through it. Reading and writing are for many of us a kind of balm, but maybe also forms of inspiration, a way to sort of right the ship in a storm. Important work, and not just escape. And we are in a storm now in Read more of this blog post »
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Dave Schaafsma said: "12/14/24: Rereading for Fall 2024 Detective fiction class. Timely coincidental focus on immigration issues/fears/reprisals. Set in Sweden, nordic noir. I've read the whole series, and seen the BBC series featuring Kenneth Brannagh, and one of the Swe 12/14/24: Rereading for Fall 2024 Detective fiction class. Timely coincidental focus on immigration issues/fears/reprisals. Set in Sweden, nordic noir. I've read the whole series, and seen the BBC series featuring Kenneth Brannagh, and one of the Swedish series, based on the books, and both are excellent, highly recommend.
Original review, 10/29/20: After reading several of the more sensational Jo Nesbo thriller type mysteries, I decided to check this series out. Kurt Wallender features some of the usual detective cliches; he's older, dumped by his wife, eating poorly and gaining weight, binge-drinking. To humanize him further he's estranged from his daughter Linda and his father is slipping into dementia. And his partner is dying of cancer.
So, a kinda dumpy sad sack guy, lost, mid-forties, and not Sherlock (nor even Columbo) as a detective. He doesn't have a clue to what is going on, and just works hard to see something he missed. But the book is well-written and Wallender is warm and approachable and sort of bleakly sad to match the bleak midwinter Swedish landscape. He's not tall and lean and sexy and rough like Harry Hole (who is also a drunk and has complicated relationships with women and self-care), but Wallender is more based in the real world, as is the story.
This tale is pretty much a straightforward police procedural that tacks back and forth between the crime-solving and his personal life. Well, I guess there is something sensational about the initial crime itself, the double murder of a remote, rural, older couple, which Wallender says is the worst thing he has ever seen. The last thing the woman says is "foreigner," which gets leaked to the press and sets off a wave of anti-immigrant violence (the book was published in 1990). But why kill an older couple?!
There aren't a lot of twists and turns in the plot. Oh, there are dead ends, of course, but nothing here is really surprising. Nothing wild like Nesbo's Snowman or Lizbeth Salander. But I liked this because it felt more real and something I could identify with and touches on real world refugee complications in contrast to all the serial killer horror/fantasies of Nesbo (which I have acknowledged in my reviews as well done, almost every time. And not that I don't like Harry! I do!).
One thing in particular I like is that Wallender works in a team, and he is not just a lone wolf as is generally the case in most detective stories, especially in the US. Maybe something about the myth of American rugged individualism, sort of something I associate with capitalism, whereas Sweden, a more socialist system, advocates for and models a teamwork, or collaborative approach. Which is in fact how crime mainly gets solved in the real world in most countries, of course.
Dave Schaafsma said: "11/9/24: Rereading for Fall 2024 Ghosts class
Update 11/28/23: I just reread this book with my ghosts class, and liked it even better the second time.
8/25/23 I saw again Peter Weir's film based on this book, and liked it very much, filled with sort o
11/9/24: Rereading for Fall 2024 Ghosts class
Update 11/28/23: I just reread this book with my ghosts class, and liked it even better the second time.
8/25/23 I saw again Peter Weir's film based on this book, and liked it very much, filled with sort of romanticized langorous, ethereal girls in white, like swans. An unknowable mystery. Then things seems to slowly fall apart. . . . but no, I have not seen the 2018 tv series yet. Would like to see at least some of it for a contemporary reading of the story.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) was published by Australian author and artist Joan Lindsay at the age of 70, her most celebrated achievement, its reputation enhanced by Peter Weir’s (1975) adapted film. Lindsay went to a private girls’ school, and she sets her novel on Valentine’s Day, 1900, when a group of twenty girls and two governesses from the Appleyard College for Girls have a picnic at Hanging Rock.
The novel, that Lindsay says was in part inspired by Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, involves the mysterious disappearance of four girls and one of the governesses as they climbed to get a closer look at the peak. The story, that opens on Valentine’s Day, has undercurrents of eroticism and the supernatural. Some of it is homo-erotic, some of it is hetero-erotic--there are subtle suggestions of intense connections and crushes between and among the girls, and two young men who watch the girls cross a stream to make their ascent are also part of the story.
“At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a dark slit between two rocks where maidenhair fern trembled like green lace.”
“Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-grimed bricks, she knew no more of Nature than a scarecrow rigid on a broomstick above a field of waving corn. She who had lived so close to the little forest on the Bendigo Road had never felt the short wiry grass underfoot.”
Hanging Rock operates (as peaks will sometimes seem) as a kind of phallic/sapphic symbol in this undercurrent of desire, though you can see this in photographs of the Rock (well, see below for the wikipedia page, but none of these work as well as the peaks Weir chooses for his Hanging Rock images). The final image is almost too on the. . . nose? peak? as a symbolic image in conjunction with the Headmistress and her eighteen whalebone corset stays.
As a book that seems to me consistent at times with the late sixties when it was written, we see in every paragraph the natural world--and Hanging Rock possibly the same for a “million” years--juxtaposed with the frilly layers of clothing the girls wear almost as a defense against the naked, pulsing world the school protects them from. Our being cut off from nature seems part of the point of the books:
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”--Wordsworth
“Insulated from natural contacts with earth, air and sunlight, by corsets pressing on the solar plexus, by voluminous petticoats, cotton stockings and kid boots, the drowsy well-fed girls lounging in the shade were no more a part of their environment than figures in a photograph album, arbitrarily posed against a backcloth of cork rocks and cardboard trees.”
The supernatural elements are few and sparely shared--the coachman’s watch has stopped at 12 when they get to the picnic grounds, and hey, so has the watch of one of the governesses! How strange! The uncanny is present in this tale, as the house (maybe I should say this is a spoiler alert for a book fifty years old?) and the Appleyard (such a wholesome name, with healthy fruit!) College itself slowly crumbles (and yes, there is a touch of the gothic in this tale, The Fall of the House of Usher is referenced here). What gets referred to as the “College Mystery” expands--as one expects--as parents remove their girls from the school, as employees quit, and as a steady stream of dire (but not improbable) events happen. The story tacks back and forth between the two men who are involved in the search and the college (and I know what you're already thinking, amateur sleuths, but most of what happens operates in the unknown, sorry).
Lindsay wrote the book as historical fiction with a documentary feel to it, with pseudo-documents from the case, but thousands of people (embracing fake news) asked her until her death if the novel was based on actual events. She was coy about it, refusing to answer directly. I was reminded of tales related to alien abduction (one theory that has attached itself to the story), the Bermuda Triangle, The Loch Ness Monster and there's a reference to a ship mystery, The Mary Celeste, in the very last line. Lindsay actually wrote a last chapter that explained much of the mystery away, but her editors wisely talked her out of it. There have been many subsequent publications trying to “get at the truth” of what happened there at the Rock.
And yes, because I using this book for a course on liminal spaces and ghosts--there is a ghost, and appearances of the dead in dreams, and there are other metaphorical ghosts to consider as the tale proceeds. The missing girls themselves "haunt" the school and the living.
Odd that the author Joan Lindsay would barely survive a car crash less than two years after the publication of her book . . . the revenge of the novel? Mysterious and strange: mwah ha ha!
I thought it was terrific and highly recommend it.
Ps: Two good student observations: 1) one student mentions the resemblance in this book to The Ice Castle, which we also had read, where a girl wanders off into the natural world as the Appleyard girls do, and 2) a connection between these ineffable girls and Jefferey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides. We can/will never know these girls!
Hanging Rock, Australia, Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging...
Trailer for Peter Weir film (1975):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWqCH...
A statue of Miranda at Hanging Rock, Victoria (right! a statue of a lost fictional character to further encourage the notion that there were actually girls lost there!):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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Dave Schaafsma made a comment onhis reviewofKilling and Dying: Stories  "_Cail wrote: "Great review! This is a good reminder to revisit this book, been years since I’ve read this one."_yeah, a good one. I need to go back and _Cail wrote: "Great review! This is a good reminder to revisit this book, been years since I’ve read this one."_yeah, a good one. I need to go back and read his earlier stuff, too. ...more" |
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**Dave Schaafsma**rated a book it was ok  Tangier Love Story: Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, and Me (Kindle Single) by Carol Ardman |
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| I just completed rereading Paul Bowles’s masterpiece, The Sheltering Sky, and this Audible suggestion popped up, and I had a couple hours in a car, so I listened to it. I think Bowles himself might not have loved having it published, but maybe he wou I just completed rereading Paul Bowles’s masterpiece, The Sheltering Sky, and this Audible suggestion popped up, and I had a couple hours in a car, so I listened to it. I think Bowles himself might not have loved having it published, but maybe he wouldn’t have cared. It’s the story of a young woman in her early twenties, Carol Ardman, recently divorced from her to-be-famous composer husband, who had like many young people, read some of the work of Jane Bowles, and against the advice of her family flew to Tangier to try to meet her. She had vague notions herself of being a writer.Imagine her confusion when she discovers Jane is in a hospital in Spain from a stroke, never to return again, and Paul is more than willing to meet with her. In the wild ex-pat world of Morocco--sex, drugs, (the Bowles were bi-sexual and had many lovers, and loved each other to the end)--the young and admittedly naive Ardman didn’t find Jane but did have a relationship--asexual--with the four decades older Paul, who was also seeing a steady male lover. At one point Carol travels into the Sahara by herself, as Kit frm The Sheltering Sky did, with very different results, thanks god. But you can see how one might imagine she is playing some kind of role first as a kind of stand-in for Jane, and then as the fictional Kit?! But Ardman would vigorously deny that, I'll bet.It’s a coming-of-age story, finally, as Carol has this amazing adventure, mentored maybe sweetly by the Famous Author Bowles, a love relationship that last a few years from afar. She returns home finally at her parents’s insistence, and pretty soon after that marries, more conventionally. She is the coauthor, with Loren Fishman, MD, of four self-help books for people with medical issues--back pain, mainly--and lives in Chicago. So this is one of a kind of sub-genre of memoir, where the young woman describes an--albeit sexless--affair she had with a much older and more famous and more experienced man-of-the-world, a kind of guru, ala Joyce Maynard’s year with J.D. Salinger. I'm reminded of Alison by Lizzy Stewart about a young woman mentored by and havib=ng a relationship with an older famous artist. Oh, there are lots of stories like this, and they are usually interesting and revealing about power imbalances in relationships. It also reminded me a bit of music groupie stories, told with no regret. It was the age, my age, I did it and looking back it was important to me. Adlard says she was really in love with Bowles and that the relationship changed her life. I listened to it all, with an eye to its sweetness for a young woman in that time and place. No judge, as my kids would say. You don’t learn much about Bowles, really, nor much about the time or place, nor even about Carol, actually, but it passed the time for an hour or so and I actually liked it in a sort of voyeuristic way as someone who also would have liked to have hung out with Bowles in 1970, around the time when I also would have been reading Jane’s and Paul’s work! ...more | |
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| I read this in the early seventies during my despair about the insanity and futility of the Viet Nam War. Bowles published it in 1949, writing it at the end of WWII, when tens of millions of humans had been killed, Hiroshima, the camps. Bowles had mo I read this in the early seventies during my despair about the insanity and futility of the Viet Nam War. Bowles published it in 1949, writing it at the end of WWII, when tens of millions of humans had been killed, Hiroshima, the camps. Bowles had moved to Tangier, Morocco in 1947, where he lived out the remainder of his life as composer and author. The Sheltering Sky is a novel of despair and alienation about the state of the world, that resonated wiith my disaffected leftist westerners, artists, writers, those wanting to escape "civilization" somehow.In the novel, as the blurb says, Bowles examines the ways in which three (decidedly ugly) Americans (mis)apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. Ultimately, it is rich with understanding and compassion een for these people as they encounter the "emptiness and cruelty of the desert." This was a very popular book in the late sixties and early seventies. I didn't expect it would nourish and replenish me like "Ode to Joy" but the writing/tone seduced me, though it is very much a horror story in many respects. A central woman character facing (among many other things) no good choices in men, lost in the desert. No idea how to relate to the Moroccan/Arabic culture/the desert, any of it. A powerful indictment of elitist, ethnocentric traveling for traveling's sake. Perfect post-war work, and not a rant or screed, but a work that strives to understand these characters so we might confront their tendencies in ourselves. Echoes for me of all sorts of post-colonial, ex-pat lost generation stories such as The Sun Also Rises (with all these people behaving badly), The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Conrad's "the horror, the horror" Heart of Darkness. ...more | |
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**Dave Schaafsma**rated a book really liked it  The Walking Dead, Vol. 24: Life and Death by Robert Kirkman |
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| Volume 4 opens with plans for a fair--yay! welcome back to the old normality!--but we are already well-trained in Walking Dead dystopian world. We know Carl is gone, hanging with Lydia and the Whisperers, and we know this is a bad thing as we have he Volume 4 opens with plans for a fair--yay! welcome back to the old normality!--but we are already well-trained in Walking Dead dystopian world. We know Carl is gone, hanging with Lydia and the Whisperers, and we know this is a bad thing as we have heard Lydia’s account of sexual assault there. We also see that someone has--accidentally or deliberately--left Negan’s cage open, though when Rick comes to feed him, Negan is IN the unlocked cage, in usually surprising Negan fashion. So we are on edge, of course.The anti-capital punishment Rick remains adamant, that we do not kill our enemies in a civilized society:“We’re more than our emotions. We’re better than our rage and anger. We’re civilized. If we ever lose that, that’s when things will fall apart.” Ah, Rick, the romantic. When were we ever a civilized society?Then the next image is killer Gregory hanging from a tree.Rick goes to Whisper-ville to take Carl back home, and Lydia’s mom, Alpha, sends Lydia, too, but on the way home they see evidence of barbarism that counters the optimism of the fair. So, what have we learned? The Whisperers have returned to their “natural” state of being animals; their madness makes it clear that people have made other choices about how to live, less humane and productive ways, but we already knew that through the guv and Negan. The shock value achieved by Gregory's hanging and the wholesale slaughter of this ending has great horror marketing value, ups the reader rating with slasher horror, visually etched by Adlard in your mind forever, but what good does it accomplish? A warning that we need to pursue empathy and goodness and productive societal functions if at all possible? That’s useful to keep in mind, if at all possible, as things turn to greater chaos perhaps in 2025, of course. To counter hat with hate has to be avoided if possible. Well, I guess I have to admit that this issue has some sharp narrative "hooks" in it, so as story I'll rate it four stars. It does what horror is meant to do: horrify. ...more | |
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| **Dave Schaafsma**likedGabrielle Danoux’s quote “Le Commandant sera oublié, l’Écrivain restera, l’argonaute émergera du cocon dans la lumière telle une larve dépassée et deviendra un papillon bleu, volant vers autant d’horizons qu’il y en aura encore.(p. 14-15)*Uitat va fi Comandorul, va rămâne Scriitorul, argonautul va ieși din cocon la lumină ca o larvă stătută și se va face fluture albastru, zburând spre câte zări o mai putea să prindă.(p. 14-15 Jean Bart, argonautul)” Adrian G. Romila Like Quote | |
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| So I am reading this in November 2024, post election, filled with dread, so this especially dark series seems appropriate reading. We are now supposedly in a stable community led by Rick, a few years post-Negan, kinda like post-pandemic, happy days a So I am reading this in November 2024, post election, filled with dread, so this especially dark series seems appropriate reading. We are now supposedly in a stable community led by Rick, a few years post-Negan, kinda like post-pandemic, happy days are here again. . . and then you fill in the blank with whatever world horror undermines the illusory sense of peace and prosperity. So the next horror scenario involves this group we call The Whisperers that wear gross skin masks so they can blend in with the walkers. In a confrontation where this group kills some of Rick's group, a girl named Lydia kills and is captured. You may recall that Carl liked to talk to the jailed Negan? Well here Carl talks to the jailed killer Lydia, who seems thankful enough to help Carl lose his virginity. I thought Sophie was Carl's girlfriend, whom Carl defended as some hicks beat up? Ah, youth! Carl is this one-eyed blacksmith. . . . so what do I know about the choices of women, but having an empty eye socket for Lydia is actually a check in some imaginary box, apparently.But all joking aside, Lydia tells Carl about multiple sexual assaults in the Whisperer community, as Lydia in a prisoner exchange returns to her group. Maverick Carl--who once tried to kill Negan--now appears to want to attack the Whisperers to rescue Lydia. Which could point to a good next volume, maybe, righteous wrath?I dunno, this issue is okay, but there is always this dark streak of horror running through the series, freaking me out (like Trump's choices for hs cabinet?), which is what you came for in a dystopian comics series. ...more | |
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The purpose of this group is to read one short story a week. There is a link to each story in the discussion's opening post. You can drop in and out a The purpose of this group is to read one short story a week. There is a link to each story in the discussion's opening post. You can drop in and out at any point. ...more
Chicago Writers — 109 members — last activity Feb 02, 2017 05:12PM
This is a place for Chicago Writers Association members to discuss their current and upcoming titles, announce events and reviews, and connect with ot This is a place for Chicago Writers Association members to discuss their current and upcoming titles, announce events and reviews, and connect with other local writers. ...more
Pulp Fiction — 1873 members — last activity Nov 17, 2024 02:52PM
Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
George Orwell Matters! — 418 members — last activity 16 hours, 38 min ago
A niche for the readers of Eric Arthur Blair's writings, among the groups for literature and fiction lovers. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903–21 Januar A niche for the readers of Eric Arthur Blair's writings, among the groups for literature and fiction lovers. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903–21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist and critic as well as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published towards the end of his life. ...more
100-books-read boys club — 7 members — last activity Dec 31, 2018 04:20AM
Not a massive number? Sure. But still my favourite 100-bragging number.
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