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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title>RSS World Literature</title> <link>http://wolds-words.com/</link> <description>World Literature</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:55:12 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>daily</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item> <title>YA novels About cancer</title> <description>The Fault in Our Stars has become something of a phenomenon, a staggeringly popular YA book that has spawned a high-profile movie (out this weekend) and somehow created a nation where young people are now familiar with the word ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/my_pre_tfios_obsession_with_ya.jpg" alt="Share" align="left" /><p>The Fault in Our Stars has become something of a phenomenon, a staggeringly popular YA book that has spawned a high-profile movie (out this weekend) and somehow created a nation where young people are now familiar with the word cannula. And infinity mazel tovs to everyone involved: It's a good book, and a good movie (I hear), and we all like a good cry now and then. But let's not act like TFIOS invented teen cancer books. Teen-with-cancer YA books have been around for a long time — and as a tween, I was obsessed with them. This is not to knock TFIOS in any way, but merely to acknowledge that it is part of an expansive tradition of terminally ill-teenager YA novels. There are a ton of these books, and I read them all. Or just about. I must have read 100 dying-teen books. Most of them were about characters with cancer, but there were a few cystic fibrosis sagas in there, maybe an early HIV/AIDS story (we're talking the early '90s here), some catastrophic accidents, and some generalized organ failure. I can still picture the exact spot at the library where these books were shelved, and the only reason I stopped reading them was that I exhausted my library's — and my school library's — supply. This is why I read many of these books multiple times. I tried to scratch the same itch with Deenie and her scoliosis, but it just wasn't severe enough. I needed the real deal! The longtime queen of the dying-teen book is Lurlene McDaniel, who has written dozens of novels in the genre. I was partial to Mother, Help Me Live , in which a leukemia-stricken Sarah discovers that she's adopted — and thus cannot get a bone-marrow transplant from anyone in her family. Her biological mom turns out to be a real pain, too, so it's fraught on several levels. I was really into McDaniel's Dawn Rochelle series, Six Months to Live, I Want to Live/So Much to Live For, and No Time to Cry — those are about two girls who both have cancer and go to cancer camp together and stuff, but then one of them dies. I tried mightily to incorporate some of the summer-camp rituals from the cancer camp in the book into my regular YMCA camp, but no one ever went for it. In the book, campers keep small boxes of the campfire ashes from the previous summer and bring them back to camp the next year. I maintain that this is a perfectly lovely tradition.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/ya-novels-about-cancer</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/ya-novels-about-cancer</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Novel Stars submission answers</title> <description>You need something to get you through the cold, dark days until you can finally Trek Into Darkness, but Star Trek novels are so much more than something to tide you over until the movie comes out. Here some reasons you should ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/houellebecqs_submission_islam_and_frances_malaise.jpg" alt="Star Michel Houellebecq's" align="left" /><p>You need something to get you through the cold, dark days until you can finally Trek Into Darkness, but Star Trek novels are so much more than something to tide you over until the movie comes out. Here some reasons you should consider picking up a Star Trek novel. 1. So, how’d that work out? If you’ve ever wondered about the aftermath of an Original Series episode, there’s probably a novel for that. If you don’t like that novel, there’s probably another one that answers the question a different way. 2. They...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/novel-stars-submission-answers</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/novel-stars-submission-answers</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:51:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Visual novels like 999</title> <description>In Jeremy's post on the 3DS's recent sales surge, one of his points really stood out to me; namely, that the original DS popularized previously unknown (or recently nonexistent) types of games for an audience still trying to wrap ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/five_visual_novels_you_must_play.jpg" alt="Five Visual Novels You Must" align="left" /><p>In Jeremy's post on the 3DS's recent sales surge, one of his points really stood out to me; namely, that the original DS popularized previously unknown (or recently nonexistent) types of games for an audience still trying to wrap their brains around the system's two screens and novel means of input. And while the genre in question hasn't yet reached the popularity of brain training, dog raising, or gentleman simulation (a la Professor Layton), without the DS, visual novels would still be one of those weird Japanese things we only hear about in whispers, riddles, and animes...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/visual-novels-like-999</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/visual-novels-like-999</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 08:54:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>New novels to read</title> <description>EXPAND Dean Haspiel's Beef With Tomato is a semi-autobiographical work that you need to read this fall. Dean Haspiel, Alternative Comics It’s almost fall somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Fall, as in cool temperatures and ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/my_graphic_novel_ss_sent_me.jpg" alt="Some new novels to read!" align="left" /><p>EXPAND Dean Haspiel's Beef With Tomato is a semi-autobiographical work that you need to read this fall. Dean Haspiel, Alternative Comics It’s almost fall somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Fall, as in cool temperatures and the beginning of a new school year. As this is being written, it’s monsoon season in the Valley and school has been in session for weeks. When we were kids somewhere else, Labor Day felt like New Year’s Day, only better, because a) frankly, we were over sweat and mosquitoes and b) it meant new clothes, new school supplies and best of all, new books. If w...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/new-novels-to-read</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/new-novels-to-read</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>New novels</title> <description>With the launch of a new all-canon supported universe, Star Wars novels (along with other mediums) are now able to explore significant moments in the history of a galaxy far, far away in a new, definitive fashion. With four ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/simegen_top_page.jpg" alt="3 New Novels in 2011" align="left" /><p>With the launch of a new all-canon supported universe, Star Wars novels (along with other mediums) are now able to explore significant moments in the history of a galaxy far, far away in a new, definitive fashion. With four novels released in the last year, Del Rey’s Star Wars stories have revealed hidden backstories, displayed seminal moments, and helped establish the new history of characters like the Emperor, Luke Skywalker, and Kanan Jarrus in a way never before possible. With the fifth novel, the Star Wars: The Clone Wars -based Star Wars: Dark Disciple due in stores on July 7, 2015, now is a good time to look at the first year of new-era novels and what major moments you may have missed if you’re not up-to-date. Be...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/new-novels</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/new-novels</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Young Adult novels in Verse</title> <description>Audacity by Melanie Crowder (available now): A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women’s labor rights in the early 20th century in New York. All We Have Is Now by Lisa ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/of_the_young_adult_novels.png" alt="Of the young adult novels" align="left" /><p>Audacity by Melanie Crowder (available now): A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women’s labor rights in the early 20th century in New York. All We Have Is Now by Lisa Schroeder (July 28): Since she ran away from home Emerson has been living on the streets of Portland, relying on her wits and her friend Vince to get by, but as a meteor approaches North America they meet Carl, who tells them he has been granting people’s wishes–so what will they do if this is their last day on Earth, and, more important, what will they do if it is not? One by Sarah Crossan (September 15): Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery, which they have never before considered. Skys...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/young-adult-novels-in-verse</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/young-adult-novels-in-verse</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:44:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Visual novels with action and romance</title> <description>PS Vita game slated for fall; physical release coming to N. America Aksys Games announced on Tuesday that it will release the romance visual novel Norn9: Var Commons in Europe and North America this fall. The PlayStation Vita ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/visual_novel_recommendations_the_geek_clinic.jpg" alt="My second favorite VN by the" align="left" /><p>PS Vita game slated for fall; physical release coming to N. America Aksys Games announced on Tuesday that it will release the romance visual novel Norn9: Var Commons in Europe and North America this fall. 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Was I kind to my students and colleagues ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/lowell_middle_school_eighth_graders_create.jpg" alt="Lowell Middle School" align="left" /><p>I like to go on a morning run (jog, sometimes trot) the last morning of the school week, which is typically Friday mornings, to reflect on my week of teaching. Did I do a “good” job? Was I kind to my students and colleagues? Did I make time for my family? Did I drink enough water? I usually replay instances where I was in such a rush that I didn’t say “good morning” to a colleague or when I forgot to return to a student who had a question. I always make a promise to drink more water and to leave school before rush hour. After ov...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/utopian-novels-middle-school</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/utopian-novels-middle-school</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>New novels by James Patterson</title> <description>His new novel, “Private Vegas, ” blasts off with a flashy marketing scheme that offers one copy of the book for $294, 038. “Too much, ” you say? Don’t worry, you’ll get more than Patterson’s breathless prose. The ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/passion_for_page_turners_at_melton.jpg" alt="Ads By Google" align="left" /><p>His new novel, “Private Vegas, ” blasts off with a flashy marketing scheme that offers one copy of the book for $294, 038. “Too much, ” you say? Don’t worry, you’ll get more than Patterson’s breathless prose. The buyer of this special copy of “Private Vegas” will also enjoy: • A first-class flight to an undisclosed location. • Two nights stay in a luxurious hotel. • 14k gold-plated binoculars inside a fine-leather case engraved with Patterson’s initials. • A five-course dinner with Patterson. • The whole Alex Cross boo...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/new-novels-by-james-patterson</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/new-novels-by-james-patterson</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:43:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Short novels for kids</title> <description>Reading aloud from novels is one of my favorite things to do. I enjoy reading picture books, as well, but there is nothing like a good children’s novel, shared out loud. I tend to think it pays off to be careful about what ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/reading_lists_grades_3_5pragmaticmom_pragmaticmom.jpg" alt="Novels in Verse for Kids:" align="left" /><p>Reading aloud from novels is one of my favorite things to do. I enjoy reading picture books, as well, but there is nothing like a good children’s novel, shared out loud. I tend to think it pays off to be careful about what those very first novels are, though. A cumbersome, boring, or otherwise unpleasant first experience with longer narrative can really take the wind out of your sails, and who needs that? If you’re just getting started reading aloud from novel-length books with your kids, you’ll enjoy it more if you ease in with book that have short chapters, fantastic characters, and easy-to-follow plot lines. Just...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Novels]]></category> <link>http://wolds-words.com/Novels/short-novels-for-kids</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">http://wolds-words.com/Novels/short-novels-for-kids</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:53:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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