It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 04/01/13
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We are lucky to have Nikki Loftin on base this week. She worked at the elementary school today and I hear she was great with the kids. I look forward to seeing her tomorrow at the middle school. As for the book, who wouldn't love a school where you get to eat as much as you want and leave class whenever you're bored? But something seems a little bit off... This is sort of a modern day Hansel and Gretel. There's a definite creep-factor, but since eating kids was ok in the Hansel and Gretel story, I assume it's ok for the middle years? I can't wait to hear what the kids say about this one. 
On the 31st, I found that March was almost over and I hadn't even started my classic for the month. Thank goodness I picked a short one, but still it wasn't a fast read. I enjoyed the novel, and it's nice of Jane Austen to remind me that dating in the 1800s really isn't so different from dating now. (Then I watched MTV's Awkward and found that dating at 16 is not so different from Austen's character dating at 28 nor that different from me dating at 42.)
Finally! Took quite a while to get this one finished, but it is quite entertaining. It's interesting to think about what could come in the future with virtual reality, the internet, cloud storage, etc. And while reading a possible view of the future, there are lots of fun reminders of the 80s.
This week's picture books:
I read several of these based on recommendations from last week. My favorites are: Eight Days Gone which is tells about Apollo 11 in rhyme!; The Beast of Monsieur Racine which I had never heard of (thanks, Mayra for the intro to the author) but is great for April Fool's Day; Island: A Story of the Galapagos which is a great science follow-up to my reading of Charles and Emma. Oh, I also really liked Rhyming Dust Bunnies because they're cute and they rhyme and they make me smile. I liked the others too, but I don't want to be crazy picture book lady.
This week I've started Scarlet.
And I'm listening to The Teacher's Funeral.
I leave for my spring break trip this Saturday (Cambodia and Vietnam) so I probably won't write next week.
Thanks for reading! Have a fantastic reading week.
Lee
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ReplyDeleteNicole, not sure what happened to your comments, but I got them in email. Nikki Loftin was really great with the kids. They left the session with her with a character mapped out and inspiration to work on a story. I think they really appreciated being able to meet an author (as did I!). Oh, and Persuasion is one of the shorter adult books. :)
DeleteI loved Ready Player One and Scarlet so much! If you liked Ready Player One you may enjoy Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. I am almost finished with it. Here's my week http://wp.me/pzUn5-1t0
ReplyDeleteMegan, thanks for the recommendation. I'll add Mr. Penumbra to my TBR list.
DeleteHave fun! Looks like you have read widely! Which one should I try?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, Beth, for you I'd say one of the books from 3/18. I think you'd really like most of those (as would your students). I'm wondering if Hope might like The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy. Let me know and I'll send it to you. Nikki was really great working with the elementary and middle school kids!
DeleteHi there Lee, great books you have here. I'm glad to see that you also have Crictor! Did you enjoy it? I love Art & Max and I've recommended ISLAND as one of the possible featured books for our Project Splash! Asia booklet to be released this May. Have fun in Cambodia and Vietnam! I'm sure you'd find lots of great books there too. :)
ReplyDeleteMyra, I did like Crictor. If you hadn't recommended those two, I would have never picked them up, but I liked both of them. I just found I was quite surprised by The Beast of Monsieur Racine - and maybe it was just an April Fool's thing. I did really like Island. I look forward to seeing if you do something with that one.
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