[lit-ideas] Modigliani (was books)
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:31:14 -0500
Speaking of clowns. I went to see the Modigliani exhibit here at the Art
Gallery of Ontario and there was an AMAZING sketch called "Head of an
Astonished Clown" that I would love to find a replica of or even more
information about. I Googled it and found nothing. Anyone know of it?
----- Original Message -----
From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:24 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] books
Yep, you heard right. Books. I lack enthusiasm this week after cleaning
children's bedrooms during the day (a bulldozer or TNT would have been a
more
efficacious option) to concentrate on adult material on-line or in book
form,
so I have been resorting to reading a string of books my middle-school 13
yr.
old 7th grader has read and wishes to share with me. I have never read a
longer series of bleak, grim, depressing, sad books in my life! Some have
been
school assignments, some she has chosen on her own. Let's see -- there was
"Island" about a group of juvenile delinquents who have a shipwreck and end
up on an island; "Backwater" (rather well written and compelling, actually)
about a girl whose psychological soul-searching drives her on a dangerous,
painful and challenging trek up snowy mountains to find a Mountain Woman in
seclusion; "The Man Who Loved Clowns" about a girl with whose Uncle has
Down's
Syndrome and lives with her family and whose parents are horribly killed in
a
car wreck; "Nora Ryan's Story" about the great Irish famine, children
digging
for black potatoes in hopes of spots that aren't rotten, sucking on
sea-weed;
"After the Holocaust" (no need to say more about that one), "Jade Green"
which I haven't read but skimmed the last chapter of and I gather it's about
child abuse; "Tuesdays With Morrie" which I'm sure everyone here knows....
many
of them are good books, good enough to engage me, well written, thoughtful,
carrying good principles, etc. But they are all descriptive of incredibly
tragic events. Is this standard Middle School fare? Is my kid just weird
in
seeking these out? Are young teens driven to tragedy for some
incomprehensible
reason? Do teachers foster this?
Julie Krueger
wondering why her daughter isn't *really* depressed all the time!
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