Well that’s it! We’ve made it to the end of The Glass Castle. We will have an opportunity to meet in person on September 4th at 11:30 in Siegfried Hall to chat about the book. Be sure to attend! Free lunch follows with some Glass Castle treats 🙂 Hopefully you enjoyed the book and the […]
Despite their challenges we see the Walls’ children grasp normalcy?, success? in this section of the book. Why, despite everything – money, housing, are these children able to pick up and move across the country to obtain standard housing and work and seemingly start over again? Could it be resilience? According to Robert J. Sternberg […]
Jade S. and Queenie – you’ve won our Watcard gift certificates this week! Drop by in September to pick them up. 🙂 This is most likely the last of our guest blogs from SJU faculty – but don’t worry. We have a couple more blogs and a couple more Watcard gift cards to distribute! This […]
Hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend. Be sure to check out the First Year Resources section of this blog for information on buying your textbooks and links to information on orientation. Last week Professor Toni Serafini looked at The Glass Castle through a Sexuality, Marriage and Family Studies lens. Another subject taught here at SJU […]
Hi Everyone, Ready for the long weekend? 🙂 This blog marks the first by our own SJU faculty. Toni Serafini is a professor in the department of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies. This blog post will enable you to see how students or faculty in SMF might approach/ reflect on this part of The Glass […]
Our guest blogger this week is Elissa Cressman from the Office of Student Experience at SJU. Elissa writes, In this week’s reading of ‘The Glass Castle’ author Jeannette Walls discussed the transformative experience of her sister’s first pair of glasses. There were two lines that really stuck with me. The first was that “she kept […]
Very thoughtful posts everyone, thanks for sharing! Angus H. you’ve won our random blogger gift certificate this week. It’s a $10 addition to your Watcard – that you can use on food, photocopies, etc. I’ll email you to pick it up in Sept. Back to the book! A couple events of note that occur in […]
The theme for our blog this week is change. From pages 1-62 we see the family picking up and moving in the middle of the night leaving their home and stuff behind. In fact the Walls move to 11 different places by the time the Walls’ children are in primary school! When I worked at […]
Welcome SJU incoming students to our SJU Reads blog. This blog is open to you and members of the SJU community. We ask bloggers who are not incoming students to please identify themselves in their post. I hope you have all received our SJU Reads novel The Glass Castle in the mail by now. In […]
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