tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post3959341189550981684..comments2024-01-17T19:11:06.286-08:00Comments on Orange and Silver: You Must Read ThisTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00665343970056841693noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-15672818181899450052014-08-26T20:26:51.473-07:002014-08-26T20:26:51.473-07:00This probably falls into the "Humiliating Con...This probably falls into the "Humiliating Confessions" category, but I never read a Nancy Drew until I was *cough*over 35*cough*and now I've read almost all of them*cough*<br /><br />I didn't like mysteries as a kid, so I didn't read them, but now I love Nancy Drews for their innocence, their soothing formulaic style, their predictability. <br /><br />If you loved Nancy Drew, let me recommend a book called "Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her" by Melanie Rehak, which, if you like Nancy Drew at all, is FASCINATING.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-64321522450068852092014-08-26T20:20:23.626-07:002014-08-26T20:20:23.626-07:00Ahh – Nancy Drew! I read every book in the series…...Ahh – Nancy Drew! I read every book in the series…and then moved on to the Boxcar Children. I am probably dating myself – but you already knew I was old.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04706402916568545956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-4890812045516921102014-08-25T06:19:24.505-07:002014-08-25T06:19:24.505-07:00Yes, she didn't make me, fortunately. Red Fern...Yes, she didn't make me, fortunately. Red Fern is about a kid who trains two coon hunting dogs. Any book that has a dog as one of the main characters is going to be a downer. If you google it, you can read the whole plot on Wikipedia. Based on what I read, I wouldn't recommend it, but to each his own...Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-51555567161795543882014-08-25T03:43:42.054-07:002014-08-25T03:43:42.054-07:00I'm sorry about your mother. That's awful....I'm sorry about your mother. That's awful. Nobody with a heart would make you read a book w/ that kind of association. I agree that a discussion would be much more beneficial to the students. I could see a book report but then they should allow you to write how you actually felt about the book. Even good books have objectionable passages. Somebody (a private school teacher) recommended The Red Fern for my kids. No? It was never on my reading list. See, if you go to public school, you don't read the heavy- weights (or have to do 5,000 reports) but we did have to read Lord of the Flies. I remember liking it, but I bought it as an adult & I have to say nothing happens in the first 100 pages & it's a fairly short book. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09587376475449542545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-66395960536871108612014-08-23T11:50:11.681-07:002014-08-23T11:50:11.681-07:00Right? I can't count the number of depressing ...Right? I can't count the number of depressing books my teachers forced me to read. I didn't actually read "Where the Red Fern Grows" but I read plenty of others that were equal downers (including "Bridge to Terabithia"). I spent all of the last two to three weeks of August, and the first part of September, of every school year in a deep funk because of all that shit they made me read. Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-37104491338292470632014-08-23T11:30:09.109-07:002014-08-23T11:30:09.109-07:00Where the Red Fern Grows made me ugly bawl like a ...Where the Red Fern Grows made me ugly bawl like a just born baby. I will NEVER read it again, and I hope it is never forced upon my very sensitive son. Good book, too emotional. Don't wanna.Sarah (est. 1975)http://established1975.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-70592036352797778732014-08-22T15:43:36.037-07:002014-08-22T15:43:36.037-07:00I think they've made progress. I did go look a...I think they've made progress. I did go look at the requirements for my high school, and they've made a LOT of changes that I would have welcomed. Just not having to write the reports would have been an improvement!<br /><br />My main objection was the book selection list, because of the generally gloomy plots and characters. If they'd said, "Read five books and write reports" with the goal of a) getting you to keep reading over the summer and b) getting you to apply some critical thinking to them, I'd have been OK with it. But Toni Morrison was just the end of my rope. Please pass the Prozac.<br /><br />I also know that when my kids get to high school, they will be assigned books to read that I'll think, "Oo! I want to read that!" so kind of looking forward to that phase :)Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942223629303845455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441873745400594431.post-16281219783173113962014-08-22T15:34:26.342-07:002014-08-22T15:34:26.342-07:00Summer Reading is alive and well here. I can'...Summer Reading is alive and well here. I can't remember whether or not I had summer reading lists; so I'm thinking I didn't. But my son did, and he despised it, despite the fact he loves to read. But, I have to admit, some of the books his school came up with looked so interesting to me that I would read them as soon as he finished them. Gigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05467164195744234746noreply@blogger.com