Thanks, Polter!
I've seen honest faces before. They usually come attached to liars.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2012 3:29:04 pm PDT #18524 of 28295
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megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:13:34 am PDT #18525 of 28295
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Question for teaching types from my podcast crush SavidgeReads:
she needs a piece of fiction, it doesn’t have to be massively long, that persuades, in a paragraph or two, another character to do something.
It initially sounds really obvious, and I nearly stated as much on the phone, until I thought about it and was stuck. You see all my examples seemed to be unreliable narrators persuading me they were telling the truth... which takes a whole book. Mum needs some short examples, the characters can be persuading good or bad things from the other, to discuss with the children she teaches.
Hil R. - Apr 25, 2012 5:18:10 am PDT #18526 of 28295
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Several scenes from Anne of Green Gables come to mind -- the one where Anne and Diana swear to be friends, and the one where Jane (I think? Or was it Ruby?) dares Anne to walk along the roof.
Jessica - Apr 25, 2012 5:20:35 am PDT #18527 of 28295
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Sawyer getting out of whitewashing the fence?
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 5:21:24 am PDT #18528 of 28295
Because books.
How old are the students? She could either use Rochester persuading Jane to marry him, or from A Little Princess, the scene where Sara convinces Lottie to stop throwing a tantrum.
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:23:46 am PDT #18529 of 28295
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think the equivalent of early high school. They're in England. As am I currently (in spirit anyway--on a conference call with Brits).
javachik - Apr 25, 2012 5:33:40 am PDT #18530 of 28295
Our wings are not tired.
Too bad Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller aren't fiction. The spelling of the "w-a-t-e-r" scene would be perfect.
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:41:23 am PDT #18531 of 28295
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
One day I will read Anne of Green Gables and A Little Princess. I love the Tom Sawyer idea. From what I know of his mum, she may too.
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 5:43:48 am PDT #18532 of 28295
Because books.
You've never read A Little Princess?! ::faints::
What about The Secret Garden?
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:49:48 am PDT #18533 of 28295
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist