Then, tantalizingly (is that a word?) she ends with:
Really, wouldn't it be torture to have to work with one single utensil for the rest of your days? (And I haven’t even gone into my chopsticks here, or egg slicers!)Okay, Liz. Here goes:
Books that are my chopsticks:
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No negative stereotyping intended. It's just that I'm feeling very clumsy (like when I use chopsticks) and ignorant (and OLD) as I try to make sense of these books (Kingdom Hearts). I used Wikipedia to help when my first reading fell flat on its face, and there I learned that I had a serious chunk of background knowledge missing: more than these are books, apparently they are video games. I'm going to try them again, and maybe with more practice I won't be so clumsy. Watch for a review in the coming days.
Books that are my egg slicers:
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Books that are my whisks:
Manga and graphic novels are stirring things up so much in my classroom, that they have to win the designation of whisks. I bought volume 2 and 3 of Hikaru No Go yesterday at Waldenbooks and asked to use my teacher discount. The clerk gently informed me that I could only use my teacher discount on books that I would be using in my classroom. "I AM going to use these in my classroom!" I informed her. "Really?!! WOW!" she replied, and I zoomed up to super teacher status in her eyes.
Black Swan Green is one of my all-time favorite books! When I read it last summer, I always imagined that Marcus from the movie About a Boy was narrating it. I tried to hear his voice in my head.
ReplyDeleteYea!!! I love this post! Thanks for spinning off of mine. And by the way, Black Swan Green was my favorite read of 2006. By far.
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