The book contains a more ambitious theme – reading the relationship between Australian writing and culture, and the role of the Australian landscape in shaping both people and the lives they lead.
The strategies which are, more or less, common across all the chapters include previewing a reading for its organization, skimming for main idea, scanning for specific information, making inferences, identifying the theme, reading for fluency and speed, identifying the key people and elements in a story, comparing genres of writing, and predicting story events.
(For a fuller view of many of these themes, read this report on the hidden plant in Misurata, or these explainers on the dangerous repurposing of 57-mm air-to-ground rockets or 122-millimeter Grad rockets or, in this case, the knuckleheaded firing of plainly labeled inert rockets toward Qaddafi forces in Libya's mountainous west).
That strikes me as a pretty damn solid choice for a Halloween themed reading group.
We sent our writers home with new cookbooks and other culinary-themed reads to see how they measure up.
It's "Carmageddon" this weekend in Los Angeles: the L.A. Times suggests people stay off the freeways and try some themed reading instead.
I even hosted my own gratitude themed reading party.
The shop has incredible new and used book selections, ingeniously themed reading groups, impressive author events, and just a generally inclusive vibe that makes it seem like a neighborhood spot for anyone and everyone".
The section on "phylogenetic contexts", while including a disclaimer that this is not the central theme of the paper, reads too rudimentary and too "objective".
