Monthly Archives: July 2013
The SMF Looking Glass
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 […]
Seeing for the First Time
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 […]
Sink or Swim
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 […]
All About Change
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!
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 […]
SJU Reads 