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Hey there! How cool! Immaculee was here two weeks ago. I heard her speak. I hadn't heard of her story (though knew of the genocide, etc.) until a Friday when a friend asked if I wanted to join her on Sunday...took my sister and another friend along...didn't quite finish the book before hearing her speak, but I am SO glad to know her story, yes! Quite amazing!! Happy weekend! MIke's in DC this weekend and running the Marine Corps Marathon tomorrow with his brother. So we're scrapbooking liike crazy...26 hours for the 26 miles he's running. Everyone else has shut down for the night. One friend went home to sleep and will return early, and two others are snoozing a bit here before digging back in. I'm still awake (highly unusual!) so am not sure exactly how I will proceed.Have a good one! ~Janelle
I will check that one out. And you read Old School by Tobias Wolff. WOW!! I will be up tonight as long as it takes me to finish it. VERY good!!! :) ~Janelle
I'm glad, too, that you were spared Ike's wrath. Hurricane season has to be pretty frightening. I'm enjoying The Post-Birthday World but can see I'll be reading it fairly slowly as I work through more book deadlines. Have a good week in school!
What a cheesy book, I say! I skimmed the last several pages. Eek. I'm not sure I could do an hour-long discusision of a book like that. I sure couldn't use it in class....way too contrived, and WAY too much telling...sorry if you disagree. Now I'm reading Bonk. Have you read that? Yikes.
It took me much longer to get through My Lover's Lover...somewhat strange, not at all as captivating as Esme, really. That should go over well, I would think. And I have not heard of the other you name, but you can bet I'll check into it. I started the first by Marisa de Los Santos this morning, Love Walked In, as a new group here is reading the second one as its first book, and someone said to read the first one first. So, I am. It's good! :) Hope you're having a great weekend there, too! :)
Hi Deb,Not yet. I figure I have until next June to read it. I put aside a book I was reading (on the recommendation of my sister and a friend) in order to read last month's book club book, even though I couldn't make it to book club. The book club selection was Joyce Carol Oates' Wild Nights: The Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, et al. (I'm not sure of the exact subtitle but I think it's on my shelf.) So now I'm returning to The Post-Birthday Club and found myself having to reread quite a bit to get back to where I was. I have been so busy with my writing deadlines that I have to admit I'm not reading as much as I like to. I also reread some books (and portions of others) for two summer courses I taught, including Blindness and Flight. For the writing project (the poetry interpretation book), I'm constantly reading everything I can find on a poem before I start developing the lesson for it. I also just picked up my next book club selection, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. (I'm not too excited about it. I'm too much a fiction reader for this sort of thing, but I'll give it a shot.) I'm eager to read The Thirteenth Tale, though. I assume it would be good Halloween season reading, right? Your picture on the Shelfari page is adorable, by the way. I hope your school year's going well so far!Donna
School has just begun. Once again, they are placing all these kids in AP lit that didn't take AP Lang. Of course, they don't stay. My one class of Lang kids show potential; last year's lang kids did not. How is your school going so far?
You...go...back...to...school...in...umm...two weeks??? YIKES! We go to Florida in two weeks...for a week. And then we have a week before we return to school, reporting on the 26th, I think. I LOVED Cloud Atlas! And yes, I could see teaching it...perhaps like Claudia does (she was here this week!), as an end-of-year work. I haven't read Esme yet, but I am waiting for it to arrive at my library. How was Seattle???? LY! :) Janelle
Hi Deb,In my picture I am actually standing at Cape Point in South Africa! We haven't been to Tintagel but should definitely do that while we're in England - thanks for the suggestion!
Yeah, Henry Petroski is right up there with Witold Rybczynski as a guy who writes about great stuff. I've read an excerpt of Petroski's Pencil book. And Rybczynski's Home: A Short History of an Idea is a great bit of anthropological architectural history.
Hi Deb. I just requested you as a friend. I am still trying to build my profile little by little. Sent out some invites and trying to build my shelf when I have time. I am new to this king of thing but it is fun... Dawn Burbage
Hi Deb! Thanks for the friendship request. I am having WAY too much fun with this. I have some work I need to do, and right now I should either sleep or work on these tasks, but here I am. How fun!
Hi! Who are you :-)
