Rohan Maitzen

My hack is to insert post-its and make notes on them then remove them when the book has to go back. Not the same but better than nothing!

Yes! Someone even took my undergrad Oxford editions of Pope and Dryden. 😂

I have been gradually putting my grad school criticism and theory books out on our department's "free books" shelf and it has felt very freeing! I'm keeping only ones I still dip into.

*stalled

I have also stalked out on Flights a couple of times. But Plow (for me) was outstanding.

Putting aside The Empusium for now. I loved Drive Your Plow so much! but I can't seem to get any traction with this one. Is it because I haven't read Mann?

"Look, now there's a cat on your cat puzzle!" - Fred, thinking she's pretty funny.

Just put it on hold at @kingsbookstore.bsky.social 😁

Listening now!

Aha, maybe it was you! It looks so good.

Who was it on here that I recall raving about Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall? Maybe @ds228.bsky.social ? (Just wondering about picking it up: it looks interesting!)

It was pretty relentlessly grim.

I guess Task was good but it was so violent and also I felt like I’d basically seen it before - different details but actually quite formulaic.

I got more comments (usually) by then but it varied a lot by prof.

I hope so since actually it doesn't taste great tonight. 😕

I definitely had MLA interviews in hotel rooms. It was odd.

I skimmed to the end of Giles Blunt’s Bad Juliet. It was just ok, for me; I think it would have been way better if he’d modeled it on My Cousin Rachel and really exploited the question of whether her story was true.

Which end is up? 😆❤️😂

Amazing: a call with an appointment for an ultrasound of my shoulder that I've been waiting for for a year.

As I said to them, it's not just intrusive: its presence is antithetical to our educational objectives. We should refuse to renew licenses that subvert our academic mission.

Sadly we don’t have these options!

I think we should all be telling them that this is not acceptable.

I got this reply when I wrote to our IT folks about it complaining that none of the fixes is found online appeared to be available to me.

I wonder.

“On We Go”: Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express Engine 721 doesn’t take it personally. She is made of wood and metal, and her temperament is stoic. Besides, she recognizes something kindred in Mado Pelletier’s iron conviction and uns…

The Paris Express is fine, but once again I find myself wishing Emma Donoghue would write fewer novels. Maybe then we'd finally get a really great one from her.

In upper-level classes I try now to prioritize feedback at the proposal stage, when it can be more useful. I like the idea of inviting them to follow up for more details.

I think it is definitely better for the learning experience - but it also contributes significantly to burnout given how class sizes keep going up.

Someone I know who works at a tech firm said they are going back more and more to in-person interviews because too many candidates online are clearly feeding the questions in as prompts and parroting back the generic answers, so it's hard to tell what they actually know or are like.

I was looking at some of my own undergrad essays and it is really amazing how little feedback I got compared to what I have come to think I owe my students. A few corrections here and there, maybe a checkmark or two, a sentence or two at the end, an A- or whatever.

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