![]() ![]() ![]() The counselor says, "Rudy, I though you couldn't play baseball." He replies simply, "I never said I couldn't, I said I don't." When I first read this, I was caught by mistake as well. He simply answers "I don't do baseball." Despite his answer, later on in the summer, Rudy finally agrees to play, and immediately uncovers his obvious natural talent at the sport. In the novel, a counselor asks Rudy if he plays baseball. Second, Gordon Korman showed me, especially in I Want To Go Home, that words can be easily mistaken and the way you say something can be skewed by one or two words. ![]() As a teenager myself, it's as if I can feel everything that he is describing, almost as if I"m in the book. Korman's style of writing really ensnares the personality it is attempting to write about. The descriptions are detailed, and put in a way that a teenager can relate to them. This had a unique impact on me in a few ways.įirst, Gordon Korman's novel made me feel like I had been to the camp before. Rudy is a wonder at all sports, a genius, and can even dance up a storm. Unfortunately, their attempts are useless. Throughout the novel, different counselors and campers try different methods to get Rudy into the spirit and not sulking the whole day. This book is about a teenager named Rudy who is forced to go to camp, and simply put, wants to go home. The book I chose that had a significant impact on me was a novel from the mind of Gordon Korman, entitled I Want To Go Home. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice at the dog park. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past. ![]() Greta is fascinated by Big Swiss’s refreshing attitude toward trauma. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she’s tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. ![]() Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. National Bestseller A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. ![]() ![]() ![]() His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a black slave. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent.ĭumas was of Haitian descent and mixed-race. ![]() Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.Īlexandre Dumas, père (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. ![]() This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). ![]() |