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Why Join #BigBendCCBookChallenge

03/09/2020
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"2.5 times less likely to develop Alzheimer’s"
"...reading reduces stress by 68 percent"
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Leads to Clarity & Clear Thinking
Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure

Be Resourceful
Goal Setting is Linked to Higher Achievement

Builds Resilience
5 Steps to a More Resilient You

 

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FROM: Jennifer McCarthy, French & German Instructor 
BOOK:  The Water Dancer
AUTHOR:  Ta-Nahisi Coates

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Literary criticism uses the word defamiliarization to describe the
author’s ability to render the familiar unfamiliar, and the normal strange, by
simultaneously interpreting, re-imagining and re-presenting the world to the reader. 
Ta-Nahisi Coates’ wondrous 2019 novel The Water Dancer presents the
hopes, memories, dreams, and aspirations of Hiram Walker in gloriously lyrical
language that has been freed of conventional meaning through defamiliarization 
and a touch of magical realism. The people enslaved are the “Tasked.”
The white owners are the “Quality.” Hiram possesses the supernatural
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