{"id":705,"date":"2019-06-12T20:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T03:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/?p=705"},"modified":"2019-06-21T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T21:45:19","slug":"ufv-english-summer-reads-michelle-superle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/2019\/06\/12\/ufv-english-summer-reads-michelle-superle\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV English Summer Reads: Michelle Superle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do English profs do during the summer? We read, of course!<\/p>\n

And when we read, we get so excited that we can\u2019t help raving about the books . . . because, hey!\u2013you might like them, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Michelle Superle: What I\u2019m Reading this Summer<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I ease towards my sabbatical, I\u2019m reading widely and broadly\u2014for fun, as well as in anticipation of my new research project . . .<\/p>\n

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The War that Saved My Life<\/em><\/strong>, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book is right in my wheelhouse\u2014middle grade fiction set in mid-twentieth century England (exactly what I focused on in my Master\u2019s thesis!). Plus, horses<\/em>! It came highly recommended by several children with impeccable literary taste and a colleague with the same who blamed the book for keeping her up all night because it was too good to put down. The War that Saved My Life <\/em>doesn\u2019t disappoint. All that, and it\u2019s utterly child-centered<\/a>, too. Huzzah!<\/p>\n

Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine<\/em><\/strong>, by Derren Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a children\u2019s literature professor, I trade in peddling literary happiness. So you wouldn\u2019t expect to find me reading an examination of the perils of positive thinking. But I am. And loving it. In a way, Brown\u2019s thesis that we\u2019re approaching happiness all wrong parallels the rise of realism and honesty in children\u2019s literature that has become increasingly mainstream since the 1960s, which is kind of neat.<\/p>\n

Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer<\/em><\/strong>, by Bren Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did I mention I\u2019m a sucker for memoir? It\u2019s my second favourite genre after middle grade fiction and my most favourite genre for grownups. And since my sabbatical project explores children\u2019s books about agriculture, I\u2019m enjoying the excuse to read every memoir about farming I can get my hands on. Interestingly, almost all of them include reflections on the author\u2019s childhood agricultural and literary experiences. Oh man, I love my job! Many farming memoirs are depressing, focused as they are on a disappearing livelihood and ravaged earth. But others are inspiring\u2014like this one, that chronicles Smith\u2019s about face from pillaging to healing the seas. So far, he\u2019s convinced me to eat more kelp and scallops. Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do English profs do during the summer? We read, of course! And when we read, we get so excited that we can\u2019t help raving about the books . . . because, hey!\u2013you might like them, too. Michelle Superle: What I\u2019m Reading this Summer As I ease towards my sabbatical, I\u2019m reading widely and broadly\u2014for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}