… At the beginning of Marcelo in the Real World, 17-year-old Marcelo Sandoval is leading a life that is safe, contained, and uneventful. He is on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum, though he does not have Asperger’s, so he attends a special school where he is shielded from the outside world. He enjoys [...]
All posts for the month September, 2011
Marcelo in the Real World
Posted by Kathleen on September 10, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/marcelo-in-the-real-world/
The Catcher in the Rye
… I first read The Catcher in the Rye when I was 15 and difficult to impress. Although I liked the novel to some extent, it always ranked, for me, as one of those classics whose popularity—and status—was confounding. Especially when I began to hold it up against comparable books like The Bell Jar (one of my personal [...]
Posted by Kathleen on September 5, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/the-catcher-in-the-rye/
