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We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
I started reading Please Don't Kill the Freshman last night, and I'm of 2 minds about it.
One is that, given my background, my growing up in what was -- honestly -- the country, attending a Catholic grade school and then a Catholic all-girls' high school, I ended up very sheltered and naive. And so I'm enthralled with this high-school freshman who is aware of her sexuality, who has close male friends, who is just so much more worldly than I was. (And I realize there were probably plenty of girls like that at my high school, but, as I said, it wasn't my own experience.)
The other reaction I'm having, though, is that Zoe Trope seems awfully over-wrought and pretentious. And I'm trying to remember if that's what high school was like for me. I think it was, and I respect that as part of growing up, but as a 32-year-old, it's kind of irritating to read.
The other reaction I'm having, though, is that Zoe Trope seems awfully over-wrought and pretentious. And I'm trying to remember if that's what high school was like for me. I think it was, and I respect that as part of growing up, but as a 32-year-old, it's kind of irritating to read.
I cannot agree more here. I read it and was so off-put by the whole book that I wanted to just shake her and say, "GROW UP." But then again, she's doing what you do at that age.
Oh, my. Who was present? I'm a r'ville regular, but not in the YA topics.
I can't remember. It was probably six months ago. I meant to mention it at the time, and then promptly forgot. Cause my brain, she is a seive.
Revisiting the kids' books theme from last week, I went out this week to buy books as gifts. For a 10 year old boy, I got the Westing Game, Silent to the Bone, and the first book in the Dark Is Rising series. For an 8 year old girl I got Harriet the Spy, Ballet Shoes, and Ella Enchanted. I hope they like them (I don't know these kids at all, just their ages). I'm really excited about the books!
HA! Deb, they have Plainsong, Eyes in the Fire, Fire Queen AND they have Weaver on order !
Go YOU!
WEIRDNESS: PLainsong is at PArk University, as a children's book. How bizarre.
Is it a children's book, Deb? Hmm?
That might be the same mixup Kat was talking about in Kat "We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good" Dec 18, 2003 4:37:10 pm PST, Erin.
Is it a children's book, Deb? Hmm?
I don't think so (as in I've read it and don't think it's for children), but wasn't someone saying that there was another Plainsong that was a children's book?
ETA: seconds behind! Seconds!
Ooh! I out-Nillyed Vortex.
Ooh! I out-Nillyed Vortex.
I think you could probably out-Vortex Nilly too, if you had a mind.
But then I'd feel bad.