January 31, 2003
Ready to Read?
My wife mentioned the other night that 8th graders at her junior high school are using some kind of crib notes to ‘assist’ them in dealing with Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Well, I suppose it can be a hard book for 8th graders. They may not have lived long enough, been touched by life and death deeply enough, to step into that world.
