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Sergei Rachmaninov's Night-Long Vigil [Vespers] by Todor Grigorov-Tres Peneva, Georgi Robev Svetoslav Obretenov Bulgarian National Choir with Natalia
Krino, 1986-1996 : an anthology of modern Irish writing by Gerald Dawe
The artful universe by John D. Barrow
The Wesleyan tradition : four decades of American poetry by Michael Collier
The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier that Divided a People by Roy Moxham
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art by Reginald Gibbons
I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves
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About meI have taught at International Schools around Asia since 1974 from Sapporo and Tokyo to Rangoon, from Dongdukchon to Medan, from Bangkok to Beijing. I currently teach high school literature and theory of knowledge at Nagoya International School. I don't think of myself as an "artsy" person, but that's some stage of denial. I look at my interests and they are in these order (I think): classical choral music, poetry and poetry writing, visual arts including propaganda graphics, and cooking. I'm interested in language and linguistics and languages, history and geography and culture (especially of Asia, Russia and Croatia and central Europe), and anything about Ireland.
I grew up on the five acres of woods that were my father's chicken farm near New Britain, Connecticut. My Dad "retired" and went to Las Vegas the year I entered 10th grade at Western High School and my brother was a freshman at what was then NSU (now UNLV). I married Roger Frederic Aseltine in 1971 which changed my life, not least by getting hired by his childhood friend Bill Brechtel to teach at Hokkaido International School in Sapporo, Japan.
I have three children in their twenties--graduates respectively of Kalamazoo College, Carleton College, and (soon) Guilford College. I live with my two white cats named by daughter Rachel: Puck and Mercutio. I spend Christmas and summers with Ian and Charlotte, who live in Chicago. As a dedicated ex-pat who feels like founding an ex-pat's anonymous when I was forced to live in the USA, I LOVE CHICAGO.
If I could, I would buy a cottage in the west of Ireland and retire there. The problem is, someone else would have to put up the money. Any takers, please apply!
About my libraryI'm currently inputting not my whole library (some of which is in storage), but items that are on my all time top reading lists. I'd like to write reviews for each of them as time allows. I'll also add new reads. Somewhere I have a list and comments on books I was reading that I'd made for a year or two in the past--I'll make that part of my future plans!
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On the Visitor's Information page for the Tokugawa Art Museum, it says "Closed Every Monday Except Mondays when National Holidays then closed on the following Tuesday." Although this sounds promising, information published on the Web does not, of course, always reflect the latest policy. It would be wonderful if you can confirm for me that the museum would be open that day!
Over the years, although I've done a lot of traveling for my company, it's mostly been within the continental U.S. -- with occasional jaunts to London and Paris (I know, poor me). The China visits began just two years ago...and this will be my first visit to Japan.
posted by SilentInAWay at 3:32 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2009
John Mackenzie, from across the world
posted by Jotamac at 6:37 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2009
The chinese astronomer picture can be found in Wikimedia commons (just type chinese astronomer in their search engine). You have an interesting library although I admit I know nothing about poetry. As for Murakami, several of his books are on my wishlist. Do you have any suggestions as to which I should read first?
All the best,
posted by paruline at 6:46 am (EST) on Nov 1, 2009
I'm in the throes of writing lesson 'plans/prompts' for the ToK course - my cataloguing went onto the back-burner - hence the delay in seeing your comment. We (family) visited Japan for the first time over Easter, Tokyo in fully cherry blossom bloom + Kyoto = loved it.
As well as intermittently tending to this catalogue, I also intermittently write a tumble blog http://justtok.tumblr.com/ and I twitter as bobweb2
A ToK group here is a nice idea ... do you know how to go about invoking one?
posted by DoctorBob at 1:04 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009
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posted by cheznomore at 4:55 pm (EST) on Jun 22, 2009
posted by solla at 2:15 am (EST) on Jun 19, 2009
I'm glad you like the bird. At Ohio State there was a small department where you could actually check out stuffed birds, and I took several up to my studio to draw.
I have a friend who taught in Japan for a couple of years, and loved it. We were in Teach for America together, though I was in Baton Rouge and she was in a rural parish. It was rather more difficult for both of us there.
I have to work out the cat thing a little more before I share. It should be pretty soon. The Le salon litteraire de Henri Freeqy IV group (http://www.librarything.com/groups/thequ...) that I joined is reading the book, Tomcat Murr, part of which is from the point of view of a cat, and we're having some fun with it.
Thanks for the interesting libraries nod.
Solla
posted by solla at 11:06 pm (EST) on Jun 16, 2009
The tree on my Profile page is a catalpa bignonoides - the Indian Bean Tree - and the photo came from here (www.icteachers.co.uk/photos/trees.htm), so I don't know where this lovely specimen is to be found. Many jobs ago there was one outside my office window, and they are lovely trees to sit under with a book.
I see you like German literature; do you have any favourites? I'm dipping into Brecht's poetry at the moment.
posted by catalpa at 3:42 pm (EST) on Jun 14, 2009
I look forward to checking out your books as you add them.
posted by stellarexplorer at 7:38 pm (EST) on Jun 13, 2009
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