The fastest reader is the best reader and gets the gold star and the certificate for free ice cream This, of course, punishes. Sit down, relax, and take off your socks-you'd laugh them off anyway as you read The Unwelcome Guest and Nin and Nan. For too long, our educational system has oversimplified the practice of reading while pretending that only one method works: Read as fast as you can, from beginning to end, in a straight line, without skipping anything. This innovative guidebook will enrich the experience of textuality for young and old readers alike. Twice a top-ten finisher in the Preditors and Editors annual readers' poll of the best novels of the year, Gerdes is certain to delight his legion of loyal literati with his legendary legerdemain in this new double offering. In How to Read, veteran novelist, editor and educator Eckhard Gerdes reveals 81 different approaches for reading, opening up new horizons that restrictive educators have been blocking from view for far too long.
Both novels are richly humorous, but at the core of each is the pressing concern that modern concerns are pressing on us too much. The Unwelcome Guest is the story of one man's flight from paranoia, and Nin & Nan features a gender-ambiguous couple who take on the entire federal government.
Mark Axelrod, The Review of Contemporary Fiction Product DescriptionFan-favorite novelist Eckhard Gerdes is back, and this time with both barrels loaded! These two novels tackle modern life's complexities as only the twelve-gauge pen of Eckhard Gerdes can. The avant garde novels of Eckhard Gerdes differentiate themselves from other in the bizarro scene with both their emotional intensity and.
ReviewGerdes's latest, _The Unwelcome Guest plus Nin and Nan_ is an admirable and charming addition to Gerdes's ongoing experiment.
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