Noticing Sentences

Just one passage this time, but I think it's really great and deserves its own post.  Book Love There were dusty spines of poetry from the last century, and novels from abroad in French, English, and German. How had he not seen these before? Out of habit, he reached for several. But he stopped short of pulling them out. This was not the time to lose himself in fiction and the study of foreign literature. p60 The Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye I love this sentence because it shows a male lead reading or wanting to read fiction. Desiring it. He only doesn't go through with it because he is in the library for research. I don't know about your students, but my students need more examples of males reading in their lives!

I just really like this part. Casual mention of LGBT, cute, sweet idea about spouses. I loved the whole idea of Ayen as a character in this book. But in accordance to their beliefs about death, Ayen was still with her, doing those little annoying things that wives do, like make you drop your breakfast or trip over a coil of rope.  p54 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig This is a good sentence to get students to think. Do they agree? We have shelves full of maps of places that only used to exist. Everything unique is vanishing. p 72 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig   The awkwardness of how we speak actually put on the page-- unknown antecedent On one of our rides through Ka'a'awa Valley, we discovered a trail leading to an ancient temple, back behind the abandoned sugar mill. I've sketched it on the next page. They say human sacrifices were made there. At the temple, not the sugar mill. p 117 The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig   More awk

I loved the world-building in this story. I know that people can argue for days about HOW the Death-Cast actually works and how it affects the way you live the day and how it, in turn, would CHANGE the day instead of predict, but.... I love the way Silvera came up with lots of ways that this change would cause ripples into other facets of life. So when I looked back at the sentences I marked, I found that most of them were world-building in some way. Perhaps you can find some sort of application for this in your classroom. I'm planning to use if for world-building for my Creative Writing class. World development I’m trying to stay shut ‘cause I don’t wanna take my problems out on some guy doing his job, even though I have no idea why the hell anyone applies for this position in  the first place. P 17 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera “Maybe you’ll live to see another day with some Vitamin Me in your system” p 36 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Wha