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An Imaginary Curriculum: Which it’s Part the First of Kate’s Wild and Crazy Summer Reading Thoughts

• June 2, 2011,
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• Author: Kate
• Categories: An Imaginary Curriculum: Summer Reading, Bookish Treasures, The Floating Saloon
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  Tags: Arthur I. Miller, Books in the Pie-Cooling Cupboard, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gaby Wood, Jorge Luis Borges, Lawrence Wechsler, Marina Warner, Meditations on School and Stuff, Morris Museum, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Steve Martin, Summer Reading, Times I Reference Freud's Essay on the Uncanny, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens

A couple of days a week I work at my favorite bookstore, and last week I started one of my favorite projects: building the summer reads table for kids and teens. This got me thinking about all the research reading I’ve done over the last couple of years, the things I’ve learned since that weren’t part of my middle and high school education–discoveries of history, science, math, information theory, literature that I was lead to by people and projects I’ve [...]