The Raw Shark Texts

This is the start of year 7 of teaching HS English. I have six classes of Freshman, two Honors and four College Prep.

I'm currently reading The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Here's an excerpt: "Maybe it's natural for questions to outlive their answers. Or maybe answers don't die but are just lost more easily, being so small and specific, like a coin dropped from the deck of a ship and into the big deep sea" (108). Questions are essential to this story because Eric Sanderson is piecing together who he was, who he is, and what happened to his girlfriend Clio Aames in Greece. Not to mention there is a lodovician, a metaphysical memory-eating shark, that is pursuing him. I know, sounds like a stretch, but Steven Hall makes it work, makes it believable, and creates enough suspense to make me want to keep reading and thinking about his characters constantly.

I'm listening to Everything All the Time by Band of Horses and Magic Potion by The Black Keys.