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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
Detective Fiction, Fall 2024
Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930)
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (1939)
Films: Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston (director), Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
The Big Sleep (1946), Howard Hawks (director), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
4 short stories: Edgar Allen Poe, “”Murders at the Rue Morgue” (1841)
Arthur Conan Doyle, “Silver Blaze” (1892)
Agatha Christie,”Witness for the Prosecution” (19Read more of this blog post »
Published on September 01, 2024 15:51
Dave Schaafsma said: "10/10/23: Reread for my ghosts/liminal spaces fall 23 class; ghosts, you ask? Well, that's a question, isn't it? The incident late in the story at the well? The foster family's recently deceased son is a kind of ever-present "ghost" in this story, or 10/10/23: Reread for my ghosts/liminal spaces fall 23 class; ghosts, you ask? Well, that's a question, isn't it? The incident late in the story at the well? The foster family's recently deceased son is a kind of ever-present "ghost" in this story, or ghost, depending on your point-of-view. I LOVE this book, and showed excerpts from the beautiful and moving 2023 Academy-Award-nominated film based on the story, The Quiet Girl (available now on Hulu), as well.
One of the things I am paying attention to in this second read is the mention of "secrets," which I had not paid much attention to in my first reading, but other reviews I read later speculate on what is going on with that. In short, I think there are secrets throughout this story, though some are worth speculating about.
Foster (2010, but republished in 2022, as a wider group of people across the planet, including me, were introduced to her work through the Man Booker Shortlisted Small Things Like These [2021]) is a book about an economically disadvantaged girl from a growing Irish family who is fostered for a summer by a middle-class couple--her mother is a cousin to the host woman--we come to learn later in the story had recently lost their son, to drowning.
A personal reflection: When I was 9 and my sister N was 7 my father drove us to the farm of his childhood friend an hour or so from our house. At the time no one knew when or even if we were going back home. We knew very little about it, but we knew our mother was very sick; I think my parents thought she would die. We were in the same sense as this quiet girl being “fostered” on a farm. A trip to a research hospital was lucky, the cause of my mother's pain was identified and corrected and in the early fall we returned home.
So this is a weird way to talk about this book, maybe, but I’ll admit I was influenced in the reading of this book by my son’s photography project (I know!) about Liminal Spaces, and we have been taking lots of photographs together, talking about what is in the lines between light and darkness, as in noir art--possibility, sure, but also fear of the unknown, mystery, magic. So since I was in that mindset I thought the whole book was about liminal spaces, in various ways, for this girl who is, after all, growing up, in the liminal space between childhood and adolescence, comparing the state of her family to a family less precarious than her own.
Here’s some examples of what I mean:
“It is a hot day, bright, with patches of shade and greenish, sudden light on the road.”
“In places there is bare, blue sky. In places the blue is chalked over with clouds. . .”
“I picture myself lying in a dark bedroom with other girls, saying things we won’t repeat when the morning comes.” (whispering in the shadows)
“It’s something I am used to, this way men have of not talking. . .”
“There’s a moment when neither one of us knows what to say. . .”
“There’s a moment of dark, in the hallway; when I hesitate, she hesitates with me.”
“I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.”
“The presence of a black and white cat. . .”
“. . . the woman’s shadow stretches, almost reaching my chair.”
“. . . everything changes into something else, turns into some version of what it was before.”
“He looks happy but some part of me feels sorry for him.”
“. . . we can see everything and yet we can’t see.”
“. . . the wind blows hard and soft and hard again. . “
“. . . things I don’t fully understand. . .”
In-between-ness!
There’s ominous signs of things to come, fear, worries. There are times in which the story is eerie. We learn over time that the foster parents lost their child to an accidental drowning, so the spectre of this tragic event hovers over the girl's time at the farm, climaxing at one key turning point in the story that calls forth Irish myth, in some ways. There’s a black dog, the black sea. . . she's early on wearing the boy’s clothes. . . is something beckoning in the well where the boy had drowned?
“I keep waiting for something to happen.”
This is a marvelous short book y’all should read right now!
“My heart does not so much feel that it is in my chest as in my hands, and that I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside of me.”
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| The cover makes it clear that this volume picks up right after the last one, the defeat of Kawaii at the hands of Komi over the affections of The Boy. So Komi feels bad for her, naturally, but Kawaii nevertheless tries again via a video summarizing h The cover makes it clear that this volume picks up right after the last one, the defeat of Kawaii at the hands of Komi over the affections of The Boy. So Komi feels bad for her, naturally, but Kawaii nevertheless tries again via a video summarizing her gifts. Result: Spectacular Fail. The rest of the issue was for me pretty forgettable but pleasant enough. ...more | |
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**Dave Schaafsma**rated a book really liked it  Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker |
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| I first read Fatale: Death Chases Me, Volume One (2012) by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips on 7/2014, and it was then to me an interesting experiment, but ultimately a miss, too over-the-top. Stick to what you do best, boys, I thought: Crime comix. But I first read Fatale: Death Chases Me, Volume One (2012) by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips on 7/2014, and it was then to me an interesting experiment, but ultimately a miss, too over-the-top. Stick to what you do best, boys, I thought: Crime comix. But this fall, 2o24, I am teaching a detective fiction class where we are reading a lot of work featuring femme fatales such as Brigid O’Shaunessy in Maltese Falcon, and I have read over the decade a wider range of noir, pulp, gutter trash, and I get the attraction of a crime fiction/Lovecraftian chthulu mash-up. Besides, I have read Brubaker and Phillips’s Kill or Be Killed, featuring a (possible) demon (it’s ambiguous), which I loved, so I was better prepared to revisit this title.*I liked the framing page featuring a chthulu holding a gat(ling gun, neophytes!). Fun, funny.*I like the woman herself, who we learn has, let’s say, been around the block a few. . . centuries. And the fact that she has “impacted” a range of males. Josephine’s her name, and destruction is her game, but I like how Brubaker builds in some regrets she has and the observation; “Why are men such damned fools?” And we nod, seeing these guys. . . at one point one guy says it feels like he, a happily married man, is “infected” with desire for Jo. Nice excuse, an infidelity virus made me do it, honey!And of course a convoluted rollercoaster of a pulpy plot: The funeral of novelist Domini Raines, lovesick Nicolas Lash’s godfather, who finds a lost manuscript with a photograph tucked into of a woman looking exactly like Jo, from like 50 years ago! Lash, hanging with Jo, gets involved in a plane crash, loses a leg, but he still “just needs to see her.” But there’s more: cult activity, mob activity, a guy called The Bishop who is a demon mobster! And we see Jo across time and across various locations, all in noirishly mysterious and foggy locations. This is topnotch fare. I still like others from Brubaker and Phillips a bit more than this title, so will rate it 4 stars just to distinguish it from other Brubakers for my own purposes, but many will see this as five stars just for the sheer joyous invention of it. Quite the ride. ...more | |
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**Dave Schaafsma**rated a book really liked it  Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape by Sam Nakahira |
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| I was glad to get to know the artist Ruth Asawa and her work in this short graphic biography that I could see both young adults and adults learning from. Ruth's family was "disrupted" (scattered, lives devastated) by the terrible Internment horror th I was glad to get to know the artist Ruth Asawa and her work in this short graphic biography that I could see both young adults and adults learning from. Ruth's family was "disrupted" (scattered, lives devastated) by the terrible Internment horror this country perpetrated in vengeance on Japanese-American families in response to Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor.Asawa always wanted to be an artist; she never wanted to be a farmer as her parents had been and expected her to do. Still, she was influenced by her family--as so many artists have been--to do something more "practical," so enrolled in an art education program in Minnesota until the director of the program refused--to protect her, he told her--to place her in student teaching because of the virulent anti-Japanese racism at the time. So sometimes things work out for the best, and without options in MInnesota she decided to follow her most desired path to get a degree in Art at Black Mountain College, where she worked with such geniuses as Josef Albers, Buckminister Fuller, and Merce Cunningham, and later Imogene Cunningham. She became a great artist, following a path she had always been interested in, focused on design, shape, space.Here's some of her art, if you want to check it out. She's best known for her work with wire sculptures, shaping them, as you see on the cover of the book, but here's more if you are interested.https://www.google.com/search?q=ruth+...I like that double entendre of the title, too. ...more | |
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| **Dave Schaafsma**rated a book really liked it Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker |
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| I first read Fatale: Death Chases Me, Volume One (2012) by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips on 7/2014, and it was then to me an interesting experiment, but ultimately a miss, too over-the-top. Stick to what you do best, boys, I thought: Crime comix. But I first read Fatale: Death Chases Me, Volume One (2012) by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips on 7/2014, and it was then to me an interesting experiment, but ultimately a miss, too over-the-top. Stick to what you do best, boys, I thought: Crime comix. But this fall, 2o24, I am teaching a detective fiction class where we are reading a lot of work featuring femme fatales such as Brigid O’Shaunessy in Maltese Falcon, and I have read over the decade a wider range of noir, pulp, gutter trash, and I get the attraction of a crime fiction/Lovecraftian chthulu mash-up. Besides, I have read Brubaker and Phillips’s Kill or Be Killed, featuring a (possible) demon (it’s ambiguous), which I loved, so I was better prepared to revisit this title.*I liked the framing page featuring a chthulu holding a gat(ling gun, neophytes!). Fun, funny.*I like the woman herself, who we learn has, let’s say, been around the block a few. . . centuries. And the fact that she has “impacted” a range of males. Josephine’s her name, and destruction is her game, but I like how Brubaker builds in some regrets she has and the observation; “Why are men such damned fools?” And we nod, seeing these guys. . . at one point one guy says it feels like he, a happily married man, is “infected” with desire for Jo. Nice excuse, an infidelity virus made me do it, honey!And of course a convoluted rollercoaster of a pulpy plot: The funeral of novelist Domini Raines, lovesick Nicolas Lash’s godfather, who finds a lost manuscript with a photograph tucked into of a woman looking exactly like Jo, from like 50 years ago! Lash, hanging with Jo, gets involved in a plane crash, loses a leg, but he still “just needs to see her.” But there’s more: cult activity, mob activity, a guy called The Bishop who is a demon mobster! And we see Jo across time and across various locations, all in noirishly mysterious and foggy locations. This is topnotch fare. I still like others from Brubaker and Phillips a bit more than this title, so will rate it 4 stars just to distinguish it from other Brubakers for my own purposes, but many will see this as five stars just for the sheer joyous invention of it. Quite the ride. ...more | |
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| A study camp competition for Tadano initiated by Komi's roommate Kawaii. Makes no real sense as Komi even tells her that Tadano likes her not because she is more intelligent or even prettier than anyone else. But nevertheless they compete in study ca A study camp competition for Tadano initiated by Komi's roommate Kawaii. Makes no real sense as Komi even tells her that Tadano likes her not because she is more intelligent or even prettier than anyone else. But nevertheless they compete in study camp quizzes and so on. There's a bried moment in the inevitable end I like where Komi is sitting on the beach next to Kawaii and the latter is crying, and Komi is not sure, having asserted her dominance and asserted her deeper connection to Tadano, how to navigate the situation. After all, she's not a mean girl. . .But otherwise, there's not much here to push things forward. ...more | |
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**Dave Schaafsma**rated a book it was ok [![古見さんは、コミュ症です。 27 [Komi-san wa Komyushō Desu. 27] by Tomohito Oda](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1666845467l/61415760._SY75_.jpg) ](/book/show/61415760-27-komi-san-wa-komyush-desu-27) 古見さんは、コミュ症です。 27 [Komi-san wa Komyushō Desu. 27] by Tomohito Oda |
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| Eh. Some game-playing, where the characters all become ganme icons for much of it, I feel out of that realm and its attempt at adorable cuteness. Lotsa talk about kissing at one point.I like the bit about Naruse and Ase again who seem to be dating. I Eh. Some game-playing, where the characters all become ganme icons for much of it, I feel out of that realm and its attempt at adorable cuteness. Lotsa talk about kissing at one point.I like the bit about Naruse and Ase again who seem to be dating. I like the soccer match and the socially awkward guy who can't talk to girls. I like Manbagi as a character quite a bit here, and generally. ...more | |
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**Dave Schaafsma**rated a book really liked it  Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 28 by Tomohito Oda |
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| How can I quit a series that lost its steam for me a long time ago? Well, I just ordered three volumes, not having read anything from the series in a while. And some of the same strengths and weaknesses remain: Weak: The constant parade of new charac How can I quit a series that lost its steam for me a long time ago? Well, I just ordered three volumes, not having read anything from the series in a while. And some of the same strengths and weaknesses remain: Weak: The constant parade of new characters is unwise; Okay: the progression to a first kiss by the socially anxious couple is either still cute or infuriating depending on how patient you are (over 28 volumes??!). Yet I remain amused, having been socially awkward myself as a teen and having similar kids. Tadaano does ask for a hug, so there's that!The opening sequence is cringingly embarrassingly funny, though, with Komi's Da asking Tadano, his daughter's boyr frined, after all, to go to the sauna with him, so he can tell about his firts kiss so they can be embarrassed to see each other naked in the shower. Then Tadano asks Komi's Dad how to kiss a girl. . . . yikes.Anyway, the whole sauna sequence works well as fresh cringe joke. The rest is a series of challenges or battles, all forgettable. Cute dress-up contests, eh. But you see I gave it four stars, up from 3.5 cuz I actually smiled a bit here and there. ...more | |
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