Comments on: Tuesday Book Club

By: robin

robin — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:22:36 +0000

Little Willow and Eisha, thanks for reporting in. Cloudscome, I love your modification, and I’m using it.

Readerdiane, what a wonderful-sounding trip! I still can’t believe you took it upon yourself to be in charge of students on a trip overseas, but how nice for you that they had such a rewarding experience.

Get some rest! You deserve it. Thanks for the travel report.

By: readerdiane

readerdiane — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:35:30 +0000

Hey, I am back from Japan with all of the students we took. It was a fabulous trip, all us had homestays with Japanese families. We were busy from morning till night. This was my second trip and I saw many more new things. The highlights were trips to Kyoto and riding Shinkosen to Hiroshima. But the real highlight was listening to my students talk about their experiences, the new things they tried and learning about the culture from students their own ages.

I brought about 8 books with me and only finished 2 on the plane. (I’m back in school but still functioning in a bit of a jet-lag fog.) I don’t remember the titles.
I highly recommend a visit to Japan with a homestay, great way to learn about another culture.

By: cloudscome

cloudscome — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:16:06 +0000

LOL oops I see you are already tagged. That’s what happened to me, so I changed the meme. You can put it at the bottom of your todo list!

By: eisha

eisha — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:04:04 +0000

Oops, I’m a day late. But it was such a productive reading week I have to share. I finished The Raw Shark Texts, which is SO AMAZING people, I can’t even tell you. I also read Beige by Cecil Castellucci, which was good (and I keep hearing good things about The Plain Janes, Robin - guess that’s next). And I read Polly Horvath’s new one, The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane. Eh, disappointing.

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Wed, 30 May 2007 03:12:47 +0000

I read the first novel of Hallowmere.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:17:42 +0000

NYC Teacher, I accept. Jen Robinson tagged me with that, too, so I’ll get on it this week. Thanks!

Miri, thanks for all the info about manga. Consider yourself our expert.

Hey, and now it’s my turn to nag you: read New Moon! The third in the series, Eclipse is coming out in August.

By: NYCTEACHER

NYCTEACHER — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:51:26 +0000

Hi there.

I’m tagging you for a meme, http://mentortexts.blogspot.com/2007/05/8-things-meme.html.

NYCTEACHER

By: Miri

Miri — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:23:05 +0000

A manga-related clarification to my prior comment:

The thing about manga is that it teaches your brain what organization really means, and you grow a huge appreciation for anything that can make you follow a series of events seamlessly. And while words are my thing (I can’t draw that well, really), I still hold that there are some things you can do with pictures that you just can’t do with words alone. The minute-to-minute changes in a character’s emotions, the way we naturally break up our thoughts…Go out and get some, Heather. Pretty please.

By: Miri

Miri — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:19:57 +0000

Woohoo! YES! Good for you! You'll love it. (Movie comes out on March 19th, 2008~! With Brendan Fraser as Mo~!) Speaking of manga (since yes, books with pictures can be wonderful), Books-A-Million is running a three-for-two sale on all Tokyopop graphic novels. While that doesn't include my actiony favorite, Fullmetal Alchemist, it does include my first manga love and emotion/depth favorite, Fruits Basket by the esteemed Natsuki Takaya (though it does have quite a bit of action to it as well. That's what happens when two of the main characters hate each other). Go out and buy a volume or three. You won't be sorry. (You will have to adjust to reading right-to-left, but it's not as hard as it looks, I promise. Tokyopop is pretty friendly with their manga.) Now that I'm done plugging for today, I finished my reread of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, finishing The Opal Deception and reading through The Lost Colony this week. The Opal Deception is still my favorite of the five, but my appreciation for The Lost Colony grows with every rereading, and I can't wait for book six. I'm also in the midst of Mister Monday by Garth Nix, but I'm putting that down this evening to read The Pilgrims of Rayne by D. J. Machale so that I can discuss it with my friends before we go our separate ways. Still on the TBR list is the whole Keys to the Kingdom sequence (of which Mister Monday is the first) and New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. Yay.

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:35:50 +0000

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Printz winner) and Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers (starred review in PW last week — yay, Laura!).