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Janet Kelley
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High School English Teacher. Writer. Kansas. Budapest. Brookline. Csíkszereda. Taint: a novel.
I’m sad.
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I love the book and usually offer it as a book club selection. The audio version read by him is superb. And, the book must have been written with a ghost writer. Am I wrong? Does it matter? It nags at me.
December 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
He has agency on the battlefield and as a title-holding man. She lacks agency as a woman. She has ambition to compensate for her lack of agency. His agency is challenged by the witches interference. Her ambition drives the story. His undermined agency drives him.
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Lady Macbeth is team ambition; Macbeth is team agency.
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
was a brilliant way to set a dark and twisted mood and foreground the supernatural; we more deeply empathize with a murderer who has been touched by demonic forces beyond his control. Also, good theater!
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Double, double toil and trouble
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Lesson plan, please!
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Where is the link? Thanks!
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Innate
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I’d love to have this lesson plan! So fun!
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What # are you at? Headed for my #39 today!
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM