It's National Poetry Month!!

How I wish I were still in the library for this month.  

Black Out Poetry is what I would do with the students.

Here are some links

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/john-depasquale/blackout-poetry/


http://www.powerpoetry.org/actions/5-tips-creating-blackout-poetry


http://austinkleon.com/category/newspaper-blackout-poems/


http://www.loveteachblog.com/2014/09/blackout-poetry-for-win.html



May just have to do it with my grands!!!!

World Book Night Giver !!!!!!!!

Thrilled to be selected as a World Book Night Giver for the second year.  My title  Bridge to Terabithia.  My target recipients...students athletes at the local sportsplex.

In the Bleak Midwinter

Librarian Quote

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. 

And she was wonderfully unhinged.

Gary Paulsen, Mudshark

My New Motto

"Mercury is in retrograde."  Marty Deeks

2014 Book Night Giver Application CHECK

I completed my giver application today for World Book Night 2014.


Choices

1st          Bridge to Terabithia

2nd        Hoot

3rd        Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

My target recipients are athletes at the junior high level at the ball fields, tennis courts, and swimming pool.

There is a story behind choice #1 that goes back about 30 years. 

Both choice 1 and 2 have runners as characters. Thus I hope the appeal to athletes.

And Miss Peregrine is just weird enough junior high age kids will love it!

World Book Night 2014 Book Choices

On October 24th the book choices for the 2014 World Book Night were announced.

2014 Book List

To download the list with ISBN's please click here.

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

After the Funeral by Agatha Christie

The Ruins of Gorlan: The Ranger's Apprentice, Book 1 by John Flanagan

Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Large Print edition) by Jamie Ford

The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Pontoon by Garrison Keillor

Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim

Enchanted by Alethea Kontis

Miss Darcy Falls in Love by Sharon Lathan

Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee

Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

Cuando Era Puertorriqueña by Esmeralda Santiago

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Large Print edition) by Maria Semple

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff

100 Best-Loved Poems edited by Philip Smith

To see book covers and learn more about the selected books follow this link

http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/books/2014

Also applications are open to be a book giver.

Wow, Neil Gaiman!! You are the best!!!!!

The very day I was dis-ing Neil Gaiman's book The Ocean at the End of the Lane, he was standing up for reading and libraries at the Barbican in London. The Reading Agency's annual lecture series was initiated in 2012 as a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share original, challenging ideas about reading and libraries.

Wonderful, wonderful and much in agreement with my view of books, reading, libraries, and learning

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

http://gu.com/p/3jhj8

Take the time to follow the link and read his speech.

Neil Gaiman

 I have just finished Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Whoa...he is dark. Previously I read The Graveyard Book and American Gods. I liked the premise of American Gods. Reminded me of the way Mt. Olympus had moved to America in the Percy Jackson series. And The Graveyard Book was a Newbery Winner. This most recent book is written for adults, but it was very troubling to me.  What sort of mind creates these works?  I liked the Hempstock women. Interesting characters. I did not very much like the narrator, main character. When I finished I sought out some reviews to see if my take was the same of others...probably not.


Here are links to several you may want to check out for yourself.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/06/29/book-review-the-ocean-the-end-the-lane-neil-gaiman/4mcI42A6E2VOXpKPWZlcPJ/story.html

http://www.npr.org/2013/06/17/191346480/a-deceptively-simple-tale-of-magic-and-peril-in-ocean


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/books/review/neil-gaimans-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/darkness-with-consolations-neil-gaimans-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane/


As for me, glad I read it, but it was discomforting and I didn't like it...not even the cover.

Quotation 13 from my Book of Quotes

"Still later I learned that grace has a timing of its own. You're never prepared for it, and you must always prepare for it"

                                                         from All About Women
                                                          by Andrew M. Greeley

Date a Girl who Teaches

Visit this blog by Audrey


http://sentimentsfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/date-a-girl-who-teaches/

Sage Advice

Quotation 12 from my book of Quotes

"It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move."
                                                  
                                         from A Wind in the Door
                                         by Madeleine L'Engle

A Responsible Borrower

Quote 11 from my Book of Quotes

"I only know that Jesus of Nazareth sings the true song. He knows the ancient harmonies."

                                                            from  A Swiftly Tilting Planet 
                                                            by Madeleine L'Engle

Too Funny!!

T Shirt for the Betterment of the World!!!!

Summer Reading at the Beach

READERS ABOUND AT ST GEORGE ISLAND


Cut Like a Knife. by  M. K. Gilroy

Emperor of All Maladies. A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjer

Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

Inferno by Dan Brown. (2)

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith  by Jon Krakauer

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

Getting Ready for Beach Reading

Bags are almost completely packed. Kindles are loaded and so is iphone.

My Kindle

Julia's Chocolates
Cathy Lamb

The Iron King

Julie Kagawa

  Stand by Me
  Neta Jackson
 

Iphone

E Book that would not load to Kindle but would to Overdrive and I Phone

Come to the Table
 Neta Jackson

Audio Book for the drive

Double Minds

Terri Blackstock

Husband's Kindle

    Inferno

    Dan Brown

Also a stack of magazines....HGTV, Country Living, Martha Stewart, and Veranda

Reading through the 2013 World Book Night Book List

I am making a try to read through the 2013 World Book Night book list.  Here is the link


http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/books/2013

Just finished The Handmaid's Tale

and The Language of Flowers