aesthetic- having to do with the appreciation of beauty
anthology- a collection of literary pieces
contemporary- current, modern, from the same time
dilettante- one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
eclectic- made up of a variety of sources or styles
excerpt- a selected part of a passage or scene
genre- describing a category or artistic endeavor
The best part of my fifth grade year was having the classroom that had the largest bookshelf in the whole school. We called it the The Amazing Anthology of Mahogany. It had aesthetic contributions, but the actual books on the shelves are what appealed to most of us, students. My favorite section was the contemporary section because the literature in this section talked a lot about the political events that have recently occurred. Although at that time I was a dilettante when it comes to political issues, I became interested once I read an excerpt from the president's novel. The other genres were very diverse. The teacher who made the bookshelf and put it together in 1955 had a very eclectic interest in books.
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