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A Separate Peace by John Knowles

October 14, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is one of the last of my boogeyman books from high school — those books you were supposed to read and didn’t. I didn’t read this one because I didn’t like my English teacher and thought the opening of this book was boring. And it kind of is. Like a lot of books about “school” there’s so much reflecting back on experience, that what makes them interesting is the remove you have from school to look back. YA novels work so well because we […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a separate peace, John Knowles

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:563 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a separate peace, John Knowles ·
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Reading a high school fixture for the first time

August 26, 2016 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’ve heard A Separate Peace batted around many English education-oriented classes and in high school classrooms, but I’d never read it. I didn’t teach it to high school students, because my semester of student teaching focused on freshmen and sophomores (and To Kill a Mockingbird is always the favorite in that part of the curriculum), but I found a discounted copy at a book sale. And now, many years later, I got around to reading it. Spoiler alert from the full review: I wasn’t an […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bonnie, John Knowles

bonnie's CBR8 Review No:88 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bonnie, John Knowles ·
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