Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory game for the reader, making this wonderful book less a collection or novel of linked. Paul glennon is the author of the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames, which was a finalist for the 2006 governor generals literary award for fiction and was selected as one of the globe and mails 100 best books of the year. Paul glennons the dodecahedron or a frame for frames. The dodecahedron, or, a frame for frames ebook, 2005. Paul glennon makes a commanding debut with a writing style that is both quirky and elusive.
Author paul glennon paul glennon is the author of the award winning bookweird trilogy. The dodecahedron, or, a frame for frames book, 2005. The dodecahedron by paul glennon fantastic fiction. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. He goes on to describe a novel based on the geometry of the dodecahedron. I had good fun with paul glennons the dodecahedron. Free dodecahedron book report idea template, photo of an. Lame, lamer, lamest approach to the interconnected short story collectionasnovel idea, the main problem not being the potentially interesting storytelling structure itself but the unvarying flat monotone i of the various narrators. Before turning his hands to kids books, paul published a collection of stories. In other words, it is about half way to being ready for prime time display. Aug 10, 2006 so i will tell you instead about a book i loved, paul glennons the dodecahedron yes, i mentioned it months ago. Paul glennon s the dodecahedron or a frame for frames.
Book report projects reading projects book projects reading activities teaching reading school projects reading skills english projects reading fair book reports dont have to be boring. A tetartoid also tetragonal pentagonal dodecahedron, pentagontritetrahedron, and tetrahedric pentagon dodecahedron is a dodecahedron with chiral tetrahedral symmetry t. With its spirit of adventure, bookweirdest courts new readers and keeps malcolm and normans devoted fans captivated. Each of the twelve faces represents a different narrative. In october 2001, nasa began collecting data with the wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe wmap on cosmic background radiation. To call the dodecahedron paul glennons second collection would be a little. In the dodecahedron, ottawa author paul glennon has come up with one intriguing answer. Most years id be calling this book the best book ive. Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory game for the reader, making this wonderful book less a collection or novel of linked stories than a puzzle one whose solution remains. Paul glennon author paul glennon is the author of the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames, which was a finalist for the 2006 governor generals literary award for fiction and was selected as one of the globe and mails 100 best books of the year. Not so the abbess of the convent where she trained and served until the 32nd. Help your students make the books they read come alive with these 22 creative book report ideas and examples. Cut out each panel along the circle not the pentagon 3.
Dec 30, 2015 free dodecahedron book report idea template, photo of an example, project guidelines, and grade sheet are all available here, for free. Fold along each line of the pentagon within the circle 4. To call the dodecahedron paul glennons second collection would be a little misleading. A regular dodecahedron or pentagonal dodecahedron is a dodecahedron that is regular, which is composed of 12 regular pentagonal faces, three meeting at each vertex. Paul glennon, born in england but resident in ottawa since 1975, has been published in descant, matrix, canadian fiction magazine, and the blue penny quarterly. The dodecahedron or a frame for frames the porcupines quill, 2005 by paul glennon canada, 2005 man, i fucking hated this book. It was bizarre, globetrotting, genrebending, experimental, philosophical, fun, and written for true bibliophiles. The dodecahedron has 12 sides and, when complete, will form an actual threedimensional figure. He lives in ottawa, where he works in the software industry. Student dodecahedron book report the giverlink on the. Ill get back to that, but first a word from the french.
Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory game for the reader, making this wonderful book less a collection or novel of linked stories than a puzzle one. Our geometrical friend, the dodecahedron, changes faces to show off his different emotions. There are also three regular star dodecahedra, which are constructed as stellations of the convex form. Posted in letters from the porcupette the interns blog tagged barbara sibbald, margaret gracie, paul glennon, plastic, short fiction, short stories, the dodecahedron, the museum of possibilities leave a comment. Our next keplerpoinsot polyhedron is the great dodecahedron, illustrated at right. Each side of the dodecahedron represents a different concept. Punch a hole in one of the flaps and hang up for others to see. The dodecahedron, or a frame for frames is a kaleidoscopic novel. The universe as a phibased dodecahedron the golden. Norman has woken up in a world that seems a lot like his own.
He has an ma from the university of ottawa and currently works as a human factors specialist which means that he attempts to encourage software to work the way humans expect it to. Well, the dodecahedron has twelve faces, so wed better watch out, right. He won a sunburst award in 2011 for bookweirder, the. Paul glennon his collection of linked stories the dodecahedron was nominated for a governor generals award and named as a globe and mail top 100 book for 2007. The dodecahedron or a frame for frames by paul glennon times. There are many different types of dodecahedra, but the one we usually think of is made using 12. The dodecahedron, or a frame for frames evening all. Luckily glennon provides an afterword to help the reader out. It has 12 faces, 20 vertices, 30 edges, and 160 diagonals 60 face diagonals, 100 space diagonals.
There are three different projects included in this file that can be done in any order, any time of the year. This series of twelve interlinked stories, structured like a dodecahedron in which each shares five referential sides with its contiguous stories, and thricerepeated phrases create vertices among storytriads, functions like a giant sudoku puzzle and kept me reaching for my pen and subsequently for my computer to track the appearances and reappearances of various motifs. Macdonald works in ottawa and can usually be seen, but not heard, where authors congregate. To understand the structure of this solid better, it will help to observe that it is built around a regular dodecahedron, and the final figure is inscribed in a. The regular dodecahedron is the third in an infinite set of truncated trapezohedra which can be constructed by truncating the two axial vertices of a pentagonal trapezohedron. The dodecahedron, or a frame for frames evening all afternoon. However, seeing as its been nominated for a governor generals award for fiction, i feel compelled now to tell you how awesome it is.
I had good fun with paul glennon s the dodecahedron. Oct 31, 2012 paul glennon s the dodecahedron was one of the last books that i recommended to just about everyone i knew. A rectified regular dodecahedron forms an icosidodecahedron. Check out this idea, and lots more at book projects. Bookweirdest by paul glennon overdrive rakuten overdrive. The dodecahedron or a frame for frames quill and quire. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron, which is a platonic solid. New findings in 2003 reveal that the shape of the universe is a dodecahedron based on phi. Specifically, it is about the freedom and fluidity of words before they are captured in writing. Like visible light from distant stars and galaxies, cosmic background radiation allows scientists to peer into the past to the time when the universe was. He was a shortlisted nominee for the relit award in 2001 for his short story collection how did you sleep. Ive started writing about it a number of times, but ive had a heck of a time of it obviously. Death, chaos, sorrows, existence, occultism current label. I had to search a bit, but my paperback edition of the letters of j.
Dec 26, 2012 this amazing 26 page book report project will have your students turn 12 circles they have completed with different assignments and projects into a geometrical wonder the dodecahedron. For the characters in these stories life is a board game to which we have. Unlike the maps of dysons delves i and dysons delves ii, the maps i drew for the dodecahedron in 2015 were predominantly drawn on lettersized paper, so a different. Oct 10, 2006 the dodecahedron, in brief its been months since i read the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames. This series of twelve interlinked stories, structured like a dodecahedron in which each shares five referential sides with its contiguous stories, and thricerepeated phrases create vertices among storytriads, functions like a giant sudoku puzzle and kept me reaching for my.
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Oulipo is a group of mostly french authors who create literature based on highly arbitrary constraints of their own making. Dodecahedron instructions each panel represents a part of. Usually when we describe someone as twofaced, were judging that person for being hypocritical meaning, they say one thing and do another. His stories strange, yet funny are about madmen, paranoiacs and the allegorically burdened. The stellations of the regular dodecahedron make up three of the four keplerpoinsot polyhedra. But honestly, you could make a dodecahedron globe for anything. Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory game for the. May 09, 2014 the great dodecahedron is my favorite threedimensional solid. Paul glennon the dodecahedron or a frame for frames geoff dyer otherwise known as the human condition geoff dyer working the room geoff dyer paris, trance geoff dyer jeff in venice, death in varanasi rebecca west the essential rebecca west john berger bentos sketchbook margaret atwood the penelopiad. Like the regular dodecahedron, it has twelve identical pentagonal faces, with three meeting in each of the 20 vertices. Quantum computing moves to the cloud dwave systems, 2020 quantum computing moves to the cloud dwave systems, 2020. The dodecahedron by paul glennon do you have a book that is between 500 and 510 pages long. So i will tell you instead about a book i loved, paul glennons the dodecahedron yes, i mentioned it months ago. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search.
The second book from the author of how did you sleep. Bookweird by paul glennon overdrive rakuten overdrive. Mallin is a british playwright and this novel owes a great deal to that genre. I wrote a book based not on the geometry of the circle, but on the geometry of the dodecahedron.
Foreword magazinebook of the year award the dodecahedron paul glennon finalist fiction globe and mailthe globe 100 the dodecahedron, paul glennon zero gravity, sharon english governor generals literar y award the dodecahedron paul glennon finalist english fiction leipzig best book award looking for snails on a. He won a sunburst award in 2011 for bookweirder, the second book in the. Paul glennon twelve narratives, twelve narrators, twelve genres and twelve fictional worlds collide to spectacular effect in paul glennons the dodecahedron, or a frame for frames. Dodecahedron by dodecahedron, released 20 january 2012 1. It has intersecting pentagonal faces indicated by the 5 in the symbol, and each vertex figure is a pentagram 5 2.