I mentioned before that I was reading War and Peace. Since I haven’t been able to form a coherent and complete thought for my blog this month, I will just blather about that book here. In the beginning I got lost with all the characters being introduced. The first time I tried reading, I quite [...]
War and Peace, I surrender!
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Borders’ summer reading challenge (for kids)
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Borders sent me an e-mail last week, “daring” kids to read ten books this summer in order to get a free book. It reminded me of my elementary school and a similar program. Every student was given a sheet of paper to list all the books they read along with the number of pages. There [...]
style of reading
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
I read this article about reading recently (really). The author was talking about how we seem to read less, and this because there’s always something else to do, check e-mail, check news sites, check text messages. I’m not going to discuss that though. What I found interesting was at one point in the article he [...]
the Real Ender Wiggin
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
I started reading Ender’s Game a while ago. Haven’t read Ender since 2005 (almost three years!) so I’ve got most of my mind clear and am now ready to meet the real Ender Wiggin. Background: I first read Ender’s Shadow (for an English class) then read Ender’s Game. So yes, I have Ender completely backwards [...]
my new favorite commercial
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
I just saw this commercial on tv. It was about reading and using your imagination to go places! Omigosh! Love! Apparently the Library of Congress started an ad campaign to get kids reading, called Lifelong Literacy. The commercials start out at a train station crowded full of kids. (Harry Potter!) They’re looking at arrival/departure boards [...]