Living Literature Through Exploration

Next week the EVO’s will wind down and my adrenaline will wind up as I’m off on an adventure to the southern hemisphere. Although I have visited some 60 countries in my life, this will be the first time for me to cross the equator–I’ll have to see for myself if water really goes down the drain differently!

I had the best of intentions for this blog, but the reality is, I just have my fingers in too many different pies, so rather than abandon the blog, I would like to launch a collaborative virtual book club. With such an international group of contributors among the Blog4Ed moderators, I suggested that we read books from different parts of the world–with the opportunity to learn about each culture first hand from our local members. Since I’m off to Argentina, I asked the Argentinian divas to recommend an author and a book. Suggestions came in for Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato and Julio Cortázar. I’m hoping to read the selection in my very rough Spanish, so I asked for something easy. The winner seems to be El Túnel by Ernesto Sábato…I will do a bit of research and post what I learn–then next week I hope to buy the book somewhere on the streets of Buenos Aires!