So, I teach this young man who struggles in school, not because he can't do the work, but more because sometimes life is a little hard to face outside of a pillow and blanket. He misses a lot of school and as a consequence gets behind in his school work.
However, when he is at school, he does very well. I particularly enjoy talking books with him. For a teenager, he has odd taste in books. So far this year, he's read the collected works of Lovecraft, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase, and assorted Forgotten Realms novels. He likes the language in the older works but at this point he's mainly rereading the same classics that he's read many times before. It has been one of my goals this year to get him started on some new authors. I tried him on the works of the Brontes and Hiassen. No go.
Finally, I talked to my dad about it and he suggested A. Merritt. Well that worked. In fact, I keep catching him reading it when he should be doing my work.
*Sigh* I'm going to have to start using novels as bribes.
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