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Recent content by tallwhitegirl

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    Need "clean" book suggestions under 200 pages

    I am in charge of selecting next month's book for a local book group. The group prerequisites is that the book is under 200 pages long and is "clean" virtually free of bad language, immorality, etc. I have thought about choosing The Giver by Lois Lowry, but am not sure if that's the direction...
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    Books you once found boring...

    You're not alone in not liking The Sun Also Rises. I have a bad taste in my mouth for anything Hemingway and I've tried to read his works several times - never to enjoy them. Perhaps when I'm eighty and bored out of my mind I won't find his works so boring and dull.
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    Books you once found boring...

    Have any of you experienced reading a book (or, more accurately, partially reading) when you were younger and absolutely hated it, but picked it up again years later to find that you love it? If so, what book? I recently picked up Walden for a book club. I hated it when I was in high...
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    Most hated 'classic' novel you've actually read

    I hate reading anything by Ernest Hemingway. I was an English major in college, so I had to read many of his works and I found all of them BORING! I know that many people consider him to be one of the greatest author's of our time, but I will not palat another Hemingway book as long as I can...
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    Reading multiple books at a time

    I always find myself with multiple books that I'm reading at a time(of course not simulataneously). Does anyone else besides me have this habit? My husband thinks I'm weird to do this.:rolleyes: I'm sure I can't be the only one who does this, right?:o Isn't it just second nature for those...
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    Charles Dickens

    Great Expectations I love Dickens - once I get past the tedious words and into the meanings behind the words. I just finished reading (well - about two weeks ago) Great Expectations and also read a couple of literary criticism books about this novel. I was supposed to attend a book club...
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    How to Raise Readers

    Continue to have family read-alouds. Who says that you can't do that even as the children grow older. My family continued to read aloud books and discuss them well into adulthood. We may be deemed as weird - but I don't care. We all love books because our parents loved books. I hope that my...
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    To start things off: Favorite books

    One of mine is _The Mixed Up File of Basil E. Frankweiler_ As a child after having read this, I used to dream of myself being stuck in a museum or in the mall after it closed. It's been so great to have children and be able to relive my childhood through the books I loved!
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    Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

    Children's Classics It depends upon what circle you're involved with as to if they are popular or not. As a homeschooling family, we have many friends and family that have read and love the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series. These books were the first "chapter" books my kids would listen to and...
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    Children's Fiction A-Z

    Seems like no one finished this up - I can't just leave it (well, I could if I weren't obsessive-compulsive!;) ) Y - (A) Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris Z - Zorro by Isabelle Allende
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    Books recently purchased (within the last two months): - Cultural Literacy - A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy - The Chronicles of Narnia - The Borrowers - What your ________ needs to know (bought K-3rd grade) - Understanding Isaiah - A Thomas Jefferson Education and most of the...
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    Also an Oregon Reader

    You can call me twg - although twig wouldn't work as it once did in yesteryears - sigh :o
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    Cultural Literacy

    Have any of you ever read Cultural Literacy by E.D.Hirsch, Jr. first published in 1987? I am just finishing it and found it quite interesting. I agree in large part with his opinion of our society - that is there is a difference between knowing how to read and being literate. He argues that...
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    Reading outside our comfort zone

    I receive a monthly newsletter from George Wythe College. This month's feature article posed an interesting question that I believe would make for stimulating conversation. Oliver DeMille asks: So why do we sometimes want to only read things we already agree with? At one level,it's just more...
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    Also an Oregon Reader

    Hi all! I am also from Oregon as is the young man who just posted. I am a mother of three who loves books and am always looking for new book ideas to expose to my children, my husband and, of course, myself. My favorite books always change. Right now because I read a lot to my children...
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