Y’all seemed to enjoy my “liveblogging” of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, so here’s something similar. Follow along, if you can, as I reveal the labyrinthine thought processes of a totally clueless poetry reader (i.e., me).
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Just a quick post to remind you all that the big event is coming up, September 27–October 4, 2008. Head on over to the American Library Association’s website for more information and lists of frequently-challenged books. Needless to say, those who would ban books make me want to puke. I hope you’ll join me in reading some banned books, not just next week but year round, and encouraging your kids to read them too.
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Well, I’m having so much fun reading other Weekly Geeks’ lists of childhood favorites that I thought I better post one of my own after all. I am going to try to list only books that I haven’t already mentioned in other posts. So no Joan Aiken, no Louisa May Alcott, no Arthur Ransome, C.S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Lois Lowry, Madeleine L’Engle, Lloyd Alexander, Noel Streatfeild or Elizabeth Enright, and no obscure German authors in translation. (Yikes! Who’s left?)
The third Weekly Geek task is to write about fond memories of childhood reading. I have written quite a few posts about books I loved as a child already (here’s a post where I mentioned several) so I thought I would do something a little different this time.
I have my RSS feeds divided into two folders, one for work (mostly graphic design and web development stuff) and one for play (mostly bookish stuff). Rarely do the two overlap. Needless to say I was delighted when Smashing Magazine, on the “work” side, came out with “Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks” for this week’s Monday Inspiration.
Veronica over at Toddled Dredge has issued a terrific reading challenge: read the book that the movie was based on. The Disney movie, that is. Who among us never labored under the delusion that we wouldn’t let our kids see the movies before they read the books? I still can’t believe I let my kids watch the Narnia movie… *sigh* But that’s the story of parenting, isn’t it? The best-laid plans…
I took Joey and Lena to see the Nancy Drew movie this afternoon.
Were you a fan of Nancy Drew? Boy, I sure was. In fact, the first chapter book I ever read was The Whispering Statue. I was lucky enough to have an older neighbor girl give me a big box of books she’d outgrown, a box that included umpteen Nancy Drews, some Trixie Beldens, and even a Bobbsey Twins or two. I devoured ‘em all. To this day there are certain words and phrases that still remind me of Nancy Drew: bungalow, titian, hunch (as in I have a hunch), sleuth, and of course “come to.”
