Tag Archives: school

Dinosaurs, Bestsellers and Nebula Awards

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Cora

First of all, Outlaw Love is a top three e-book bestseller and a top ten book (i.e. print and e-book combined) bestseller in the western category at Amazon Germany. For more, read this post at the Pegasus Pulp blog. Because … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Film | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

A Rather Romance-Heavy Linkdump

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Cora

I had a dreadful day at school today with some of my fifth-graders acting up so badly that I had to get the headmaster involved. The class was always okay before, but we got new students and two of them … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Book pimpage, a bold student and Cora is out of touch with romance reader tastes

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Cora

First of all, happy book release day to Elke Marion Weiß whose debut crime novel Triangel is published today. Elke was one of my teachers at university. In other news, today I had an eighth-grader ask me whether I had … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

No blog tonight, dear – I’ve got a headache

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Cora

Yes, I’ve really got a headache, thanks to the continuing high air pressure, which does not agree with me at all. And the very noisy and very energetic fifth-graders I had to teach yesterday afternoon didn’t help either. One of … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal, Work | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The Perils of Omniscient Narration

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Cora

Discovering halfway through a short story that your omniscient narrator has problems taking your heroine completely seriously is certainly a new writing challenge. On the other hand, she is ever so slightly hysterical. Of course, I probably shouldn’t write omniscient … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Report Day Links

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Cora

Today is report day, i.e. the students get their report cards, which also means a long weekend, because school doesn’t start up again until next Wednesday. And since today was the last day before the reports and the last session … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

School is out linkdump – and a riff on endings

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Cora

Today was the last day of school before the winter holiday and therefore the last day of school for this year. I watched The Sarah Jane Adventures with my fifth graders, who thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Lots of discussion both about … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Links, TV | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Science Fiction, Politics and an Apology to Václav Havel

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Cora

Yesterday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died aged 69, mourned by collective mass crying in his own country and largely unlamented elsewhere. We can only hope that this will improve the situation of the people of North Korea. There’s been … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, General | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Call me Popeye – Kids, character identification and self-insertion into movies

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Cora

Today, I watched a film with my afternoon class, one of those Scary Movie No. Whatever horror film parodies (the students wanted to watch it – shrug – and since it’s a parody it’s acceptable), and I noticed a very … Continue reading →

Posted in Work | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

More gender discussion, this time grammatical

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Cora

Aliette de Bodard, Keyan Bowes and Juliette Wade all respond to this study about how grammatical gender supposedly influences perception. I must confess that when I first read the National Public Radio article (since the actual study doesn’t seem to … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Work | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments