Booking Through Thursday

Hardcover? Or paperback?
Illustrations? Or just text?
First editions? Or you don’t care?
Signed by the author? Or not?

This is funny because I just had this conversation with my students and librarian yesterday.  We were in the library picking out books for the students’ free reading choice.  One of my students had picked up a paperback  copy of [...]

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Mini-Challenge: Try Something New

I have officially joined the Try Something New Mini-Challenge.  My partner and I have chosen The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. We also discussed the idea of doing a book/movie comparison as well.   This is one of those books which has been recommended to me on several occasions, but I just [...]

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Tuesday’s Teaser: The Weight of Heaven and A Great and Terrible Beauty

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book [...]

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Monday’s Musing

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the library…

How often do you visit the library? Do you have a scheduled library day/time, or do you go whenever? Do you go alone, or take people with you?
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment [...]

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Sunday Salon

February vacation is coming to an end (and I haven’t even opened up my school bag, let alone corrected any papers!), but there is the hope of a snow day tomorrow.  At any rate, once again I have collected a stack or to read books and have more than one book going at the same [...]

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Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner

So it is February vacation and since I am on vacation I decided to start it off right with a little chick lit.  For me, Jennifer Weiner is a respectable version of the “paperback novels with candy pink covers” (a line she uses in Goodnight Nobody). I found this book to be entertaining and yes, [...]

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Weekly Geek: What’s In a Name?

For this week’s edition of Weekly Geeks, we’re going to take a closer look at character names. What are some of your favorite character names?
Go to Google or a baby name site like this one or this one, and look up a favorite character’s name. What does their name mean? Do you think the [...]

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Calling All Blogger Experts

I need the help of all you bloggers out there. I am a high school English in Maine. One of our graduation requirements is that all seniors complete an extensive research project which results in a culminating presentation. One of the best ways for students to learn a skill is to see [...]

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Blogging Poll

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The letter D

Care at Care’s Book Club assigned me the letter D, so here is my list of things I love that start with with letter D:
1. Dogs: I love all dogs, but particularly my two dogs Banjo and Cyrus.
2. Dancing: The louder the music, the better.
3. Double Dog Dares: Hard to turn one [...]

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