So, I just started All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. I can already tell that it will break my heart.
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So, I just started All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. I can already tell that it will break my heart.
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Hey, you!
Yes, you.
It’s hard because it’s hard, not because there’s something wrong with you.
Micro History
I had to read Cod my freshman year of High School and my brain nearly leaked out of my ears to escape. So. Dry.
I had to read Cod my freshman year of High School and my brain nearly leaked out of my ears to escape. So. Dry.
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Red by Jacky Colliss Harvey
The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig
Coal by Barbara Freese
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Rain by Cynthia Barnett
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
And a Bottle of Rum by Wayne Curtis
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter
Uncommon Grounds by Mark Pendergrast
Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
Spice by Jack Turner
Color by Victoria Finlay
Rabid by Bill Wasik
The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
At Home by Bill Bryson
Don’t even get me STARTED on microhistories.
I love this genre.
How have I only read two of these?
I’ve read Cod, and Consider the Fork, and At Home, and I need to read the rest of these right now. I can also recommend the following:
Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion by Linda Stratmann
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
This is seriously a huge portion of my amazon kindle library
^^I can’t tell if that’s a pun re: salted cod or not.
But also too mark kurlansky starts out super cool and then it’s like GOD I’M RUNNING THROUGH MUD MUST FINISH TO SPITE EVERYBODy
100% a pun XD
Yeah I mean as I recall some of it wasn’t TERRIBLE but eventually I was like “I get it, I get why I should care, but I’m not going into environmental policy I’m sorry about your fish and their impact”
I’m going to recommend Scurvy by Stephen R. Brown because it will fuck your shit up
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The Disappearing Spoon is genius and the author replied to my tweet about it and this is probably my favourite genre of books.
I’ve been reading this to my group of fifth graders. Honestly, I was a little worried when I chose it because it is about a group of 8 boys and my group is mostly girls. I really wanted to use this for my unit because it is so close to Halloween and the writing is so well done (with great vocabulary) and the chapters are short and easy to get through a coupe in a period. Honestly, for how worried I was, my kids LOVE it. Every week, they ask me to bring it back for next week. And it’s so perfect for my lesson because each chapter contains such good foreshadow, vocabulary words, imagery, and personification; it can be adapted to many many different kinds of lessons to change it up each week. I only have six 30 min. lessons and I worry that I may not be able to finish it with them before the lessons are over.
Stories for all
A school librarian introduces me before I give an assembly. “Girls, you’re in for a real treat. You will love Shannon Hale’s books. Boys, I expect you to behave anyway.”
I’m being interviewed for a newspaper article/blog post/pod cast, etc. They ask, “I’m sure you’ve heard about the crisis in boys’ reading. Boys just aren’t reading as much as girls are. So why don’t you write books for boys?”
Or, “Why do you write strong female characters?” (and never asked “Why do you write strong male characters?”)
At book signings, a mother or grandmother says, “I would buy your books for my kids but I only have boys.”
Or, “My son reads your books too—and he actually likes them!”
Or, a dad says, “No, James, let’s get something else for you. Those are girl books.”
A book festival committee member tells me, “I pitched your name for the keynote but the rest of the committee said ‘what about the boys?’ so we chose a male author instead.”
A mom has me sign some of my books for each of her daughters. Her 10-year-old son lurks in the back. She has extra books that are unsigned so I ask the boy, “Would you like me to sign one to you?” The mom says, “Yeah, Isaac, do you want her to put your name in a girl book?” and the sisters all giggle. Unsurprisingly, Isaac says no.
These sorts of scenarios haven’t happened just once. They have been my norm for the past twelve years. I’ve heard these and many more like them countless times in every state I’ve visited.
In our culture, there are widespread assumptions:
1. Boys aren’t going to like a book that stars a girl. (And so definitely won’t like a book that stars a girl + is written by a woman + is about a PRINCESS, the most girlie of girls).
2. Men’s stories are universal; women’s stories are only for girls.
But the truth is that none of that is truth. In my position, not only have I witnessed hundreds examples of adults teaching boys to be ashamed of and avoid girls’ stories, I’ve also witnessed that boys can and do love stories about girls just as much as about boys, if we let them. For example, I’ve heard this same thing over and over again from teachers who taught Princess Academy: “When I told the class we were going to read PRINCESS ACADEMY the girls went ‘Yay!’ and the boys went 'Boo!’ But after we’d read it the boys liked it as much or even more than the girls.”
Most four-year-old boys will read THE PRINCESS IN BLACK without a worry in the world. Most fourth grade boys won’t touch PRINCESS ACADEMY—at least if others are watching. There are exceptions, of course. I’ve noticed that boys who are homeschooled are generally immune. My public-school-attending 11-year-old son’s favorite author is Lisa McMann. He’s currently enjoying Kekla Magoon’s female-led SHADOWS OF SHERWOOD as much as he enjoyed the last book he read: Louis Sachar’s boy-heavy HOLES. But generally in the early elementary years, boys learn to be ashamed to show interest in anything to do with girls. We’ve made them ashamed.
I want to be clear; if there’s a boy who only ever wants to read about other boys, I think that’s fine. But I’ve learned that most kids are less interested in the gender of the main character and more interested in the kind of book—action, humor, fantasy, mystery, etc. In adults’ well-meant and honest desire to help boys find books they’ll love, we often only offer them books about boys. We don’t give them a chance.
Whenever I speak up about this, I am accused of trolling for boy readers when they aren’t my “due.” So let me also be clear: I have a wonderful career. I have amazing readers. I am speaking up not because I’m disgruntled or demand that more boys read my books but because my particular career has put me in a position to observe the gender bias that so many of us have inherited from the previous generations and often unknowingly lug around. I’ve been witnessing and cataloging widespread gender bias and sexism for over a decade. How could I face my kids if I didn’t speak up?
And here’s what I’ve witnessed: “great books for boys” lists, books chosen for read alouds, and assigned reading in high schools and colleges, etc. are overwhelmingly about boys and written by men. Peers (and often adults) mock and shame boys who do read books about girls. Even informed adults tend to qualify recommendations that boys hear very clearly. “Even though this stars a girl, boys will like it too!”
This leads to generations of boys denied the opportunity of learning a profound empathy for girls that can come from reading novels. Leads to a culture where boys feel perfectly fine mocking and booing things many girls like and adults don’t even correct them because “boys will be boys.” Leads to boys and girls believing “girlie” is the gravest insult, that girls are less significant, not worth your time. Leads to girls believing they must work/learn/live “like a man” in order to be successful. Leads to boys growing into men who believe women are there to support their story, expect them to satisfy men’s desires and have none of their own.
The more I talk about this topic, the more I’m amazed at how many people haven’t really thought about it or considered the widespread effect gendered reading causes. I was overwhelmed by the response to a blog post I wrote earlier this year. To carry on this conversation, I’m working with Bloomsbury Children’s Books to create #StoriesForAll. Each day this week we’ll feature new essays on this topic from authors, parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and readers. On twitter, instagram, and tumblr, join us with the #StoriesForAll hashtag to share experiences, photos, book recommendations. Discuss: How deep is the assumption that there are boy books and girl books? Does it matter? What have you witnessed with regards to gendered reading? What damage does gendered reading cause to both girls and boys? What can each of us do to undo the damage and start making a change?
I yearn for that change. For our girls and for our boys.
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Shannon Hale is the New York Times bestselling author of over 20 books, including the Ever After High trilogy and the Newbery Honor winner Princess Academy. She co-wrote The Princess in Black series and Rapunzel’s Revenge with her husband, author Dean Hale. They have four children.
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