u/AlfredsLoveSong

What are your favorite books that have BOTH a gripping narrative AND beautiful prose?

I'm a sucker for beautiful prose. But I've found that some authors write glittery gold while the narrative behind it is lacking, uninteresting, or tangential to the author stroking their ability to write beautifully (Examples: James Joyce's The Dead, basically everything written by Virginia Woolf, and Lolita).

What are your favorite novels that are able to fuse beautiful language and prose with compelling, gripping narratives? I'll bullet a few examples of my personal favorites that I feel capture both elements I'm looking for:

  • Rebecca; Daphne Du Maurier.
  • Cormac McCarthy's entire catalogue, but specifically No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses.
  • I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman.
  • The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

What are your suggestions and favorites that fit this bill?

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u/AlfredsLoveSong — 5 days ago

Any Seminar Teachers Lurking Here, or just Anxious Students?

It seems that this Reddit is mostly browsed by students. For y'all, good luck on Monday! Feel free to comment below if there is something you're wondering about, looking for advice about, or need guidance on for the EOC. I'll try my best to provide any help or guidance I can! :)

That being said, I'm not really here for students, but other teachers. I'm looking to network, connect with, discuss, and share ideas about Seminar with fellow educators. If you are a teacher in this subject, comment below or DM me on Reddit - I'd love to form a little Reddit group chat with y'all.

(Pirate cat only provided because a link is mandatory to post here? Weird rule).

u/AlfredsLoveSong — 8 days ago

Hey yall. Shamelessly asking you to uPvOtE fOr ViSiBiLItY even if this is niche and doesn't really apply to you.

I'm looking to get in touch with and chat with other AP Seminar and/or Capstone teachers (so Research too!) to ask a few questions and bounce some ideas around. Looking to share ideas and resources and tips for edification.

The conversations I want to have are not really "appropriate" for the AP Community page and I refuse to create a Facebook account lol

I'd love to chat and maybe form a little Reddit group chat if I hear from multiple people.

Reply or shoot me a DM!

Thanks.

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u/AlfredsLoveSong — 9 days ago

Hi all!

I use my webcam regularly and one day, on opening my laptop, it suddenly looks like this with absolutely no rhyme or reason behind it.

https://streamable.com/ce36gf

Blurry, unfocused, overexposed, etc. It went from working perfectly fine to this with no inbetween. There's no smudge on the camera and there's no privacy shield half blocking it or whatever.

Any ideas?

u/AlfredsLoveSong — 17 days ago