Monday, October 29, 2007

Reading and being pampered

I am in the middle of reading Tiger by Geoffrey Malone, as part of my MA in Writing for Children. After our reading week, this week, I am supposed to give a presentation on the book and author.

So far, I am quite enjoying the read, although the subject of tigers does not particularly interest me. However, I cannot for the life of me find any detailed information about the author who has not responded to my email. Perhaps he did and it got lost in cyberspace or perhaps my email to him went down a deep, dark, black hole in the vastness of the internet- something like this:


I may approach his editor whose email I also have. In any case I am considering how best to give my presentation and what to include. As part of my studies, I am also reading Junk by Melvin Burgess and am due to read Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins. I am glad I have this two week half term to do all of this. Otherwise I would be seriously falling behind. I need to also complete a 1000 word writing assignment for the MA and re-read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as I will be teaching this to my fast track GCSE students when I go back to work.

It is comforting then to be visiting my Dad and his wife; I do not have to worry about having to cook and clean and I can be pampered for once. Unfortunately I may get too used to all of this and may even have to resort to employing a housekeeper ... when I make my millions of course?!!!