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Three Cups of Tea

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Steven Dalager

For once I’m on the book band wagon. Duluth’s One Book read this spring is Three Cups, and there have been discussion groups at LSC (one of which I’ve attended), plus Greg Mortenson himself is speaking here in a week … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Notes From Underground: Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Steven Dalager

Jane Maher’s biography of Shaughnessy is my second sabbatical read (one academic book of the month club), and I finished it right on schedule yesterday (thank heavens for leap day!). Back when I was planning my sabbatical over a year … Continue reading →

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The Sun Also Rises

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Steven Dalager

Reading along with my daughter and her AP English class, I picked up another that I have missed.  Twenty six years ago as a high school senior, I read For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms and … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Notes From Underground: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Steven Dalager

I first read Paulo Freire 17 years ago in graduate school. What I remember was that Pedagogy was challenging and difficult to apply to an American context, but it also transformed how I saw my relationship to students and clarified … Continue reading →

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Leatherheads of the North

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Steven Dalager

Leatherheads is a little piece of local history by Chuck Frederick of the local News Tribune. I saw a promotion at Barnes and Noble a couple of weeks ago, and I had a gift card burning a hole in my … Continue reading →

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Forever Lily

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Steven Dalager

  My friend Kathy Fahrion, a great recommender of books, placed this in my hands one day last fall, saying I had to read it. Forever Lilly is Beth Nonte Russell’s memoir of an adoption trip to China, and Kathy, … Continue reading →

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The Kite Runner

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Steven Dalager

As usual, I’m several years behind the book club curve, but I finally got around to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner over break. It’s a definite must read in these times. The well drawn characters of Baba and Hassan, and … Continue reading →

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Heart of Darkness

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Steven Dalager

Catching up with the classics, and with my daughter and her AP English class, I read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness over break, too. What can I say, except perhaps, “Oh! The horror!” I remember reading Moby Dick a few … Continue reading →

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Deathly Hallows Anyone?

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Steven Dalager

True story.� My seventeen-year-old daughter couldn’t wait for our pre-ordered copy from Amazon on Saturday.� She bought one just after Midnight early Saturday morning, came home and had it ready by 8:17 a.m.� She was possibly the first to finish … Continue reading →

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Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Steven Dalager

Theology isn’t normally on my reading list, but David Carlson recommended�Marcus Borg�to me after we’d discussed the role of creeds in mainline denominations one night (referenced by Borg in his discussion of the Council of Nicea). To summarize, Meeting Jesus … Continue reading →

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