How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky is available for purchase at the VWU campus bookstore. You can also purchase it online via Amazon.
The goal of this assignment is to provide the opportunity for your FYE professor to get to know you as a thinker and writer, as you write about your experience of reading How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.
Write a 200-300 word paragraph in which you respond to the following questions:
What was your favorite passage? Pick a passage that is one to three sentences long. What did you enjoy about this passage in How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky? How does it relate to the themes of the book?
(NOTE: Your FYE professor will share information at June orientation or email you with the specific format of your assignment. However, the default format is a printed copy.)
The common read is a book that the faculty, staff, and incoming students read and engage with through discussion, as well as other related activities. Common read programs are an important part of the freshman experience at campuses all over the country. Here are a few reasons we offer one at Virginia Wesleyan College:
George and Irene were born to be together. Literally. Their mothers, friends since childhood, hatched a plan to get pregnant together, raise the children together and then separate them so as to become each other's soulmates as adults. Can true love exist if engineered from birth?
Lydia Netzer's How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky is a mind-bending, heart-shattering love story for dreamers and pragmatists alike, exploring the conflicts of fate and determinism, and asking how much of life is under our control and what is pre-ordained in the stars.
Netzer, Lydia. “How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.” Lydia Netzer. lydianetzer.blogspot.com
How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky includes explicit language and content some may find uncomfortable. Our discussions will cover these and other topics to better understand the novel as a whole.
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Lydia Netzer, known for exploring big questions through inventive stories and outrageous humor, is the author of two acclaimed novels, Shine, Shine, Shine, and How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky. Netzer’s skill in weaving the logical with the absurd makes thorny issues--such as the conflict between fate and determinism--not only palatable, but a delight. Netzer lives in Norfolk with her husband and two home-schooled children. When she isn’t writing, she writes songs and plays guitar in a rock band. In her own words, “I'm a mom, a gamer, and if you've got magic beans, I'll bid.”
