Herald by N.F. HouckA friend of the Indiana SCL advisor wrote this book, so he had copies for sale at state convention and I bought one. I started it Monday night during my trip to Chicago for the AP workshop, and just finished. It was quite good; she's taken various stories from Greek mythology and woven them into one linear narrative, told as the ( Read more... )

Looks like I'm the first to put Mike Stackpole's new Cartomancy on hold at the Indy library...so I'll get it as soon as the library gets it in, yay!

From fernwithy:

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.
3. Post in your own journal.Hokay... (whoa, I h'aspirated...oh dear! too much Catullus ( Read more... )

One of my Spanish colleagues had a suggestion for my monuments project: Kleenex boxes. I already let the kids decorate a kleenex box in anything related to Latin for extra credit; the project would be to decorate it appropriate to a specific monument. Or perhaps, have them decorate the kleenex box to look like a model of the monument ( Read more... )

OOoooh, Oxford Latin Dictionary Sale! Seriously, I look things up in this tome constantly. Anyway it's amusing to find it on sale (about the same price I got it for when I got it on sale some time ago, actually) because today we had, for our 1/2 day staff development thingy, a speaker on "cultural competency" among whose activities was one in which ( Read more... )

Want to make a Latin teacher squeal with glee? Find her a copy of Rodolfo Lanciani's The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome. *hugs eBay and squeals with glee* It just arrived, and it is such an awesome reference for all the monuments and everything. Minor stuff, too, that the kids always have trouble finding in the library on research projects. ( Read more... )

I want a cat named Penwiper!

...Guess what I've been reading? :-) (Or rather, rereading via audiocassettes in my car. Same difference.)

There is now potential for an electronic edition of the Oxford Latin Dictionary. Squee ( Read more... )

Finally finished reading HP&HBP last night (I was, as it turned out, able to pick it up on its release date at the library, amazingly enough, though I was at that time still trying to get through rereading OotP so as to start HBP with fresher memories of the previous year...so I didn't get to HBP right away), and now I can finally go back and read ( Read more... )

Usually, if I have a not-yet-published book on hold at the library, it'll be a month or two before they actually acquire the book and its status changes from "On order" to "In transit" to "On hold" for me in my local branch ( Read more... )