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Were talking BOOKS and don’t hold back. I find the best books are those shared. What are you reading? Do you like it? Why or why not? What’s your favorite type of book (bio’s, fantasy, westerns, etc.) If it’s about books, this is the blog spot.
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Mr.P! I am finally getting a chance to write on your blog. Yay! So for all of you who are following this blog I would like to inform you that the book Fearless, well i forgot the author but Mr.P knows which one, is one for my favorites. I am sure that I will be posting more. Spread the word about this blog!
Oh the Thirteen Reasons Why is even better than Fearless. Thirteen Reasons Why is about a high school student who comments suicide and leaves thirteen tape recorded messages. Uber good a must read.
Thanks for the input Emily. Yes, Thirteen Reasons Why has been very popular with other students as well. Thanks for your review.
Mr. P this blog is very lame with only the two of us posting this will not get very far. So, I am going to be making posters declaring how super fantastic this blog is.
I am in agreement. I will spread the word as well.
There will now be three of us at least posting on this blog. It is Ms. Ball!! Yay for book readers! My favorite types of books are apparently those in which female characters have to suffer through life and are never given a break, but who prove themselves and come out stronger in the end. My two favorite books in this category (if you can call it one) are THE RED TENT and THE TIE THAT BINDS (which is not in the library but should be added Mr. P. (by Kent Haruff)).
I am currently reading MARCH by Geraldine Brooks, which is about the Civil War and is told from the father's perspective from the classic novel LITTLE WOMEN. Honor's English will be reading it but I do recommend it to others as well. So far I am enjoying it!
Alright, Appleby's in.
I am currently reading Ben Franklin's Biography (I am actually trying to read all of the Presidential Biographies but got sidetracked with Ben) and Edgar Sawtelle. Sawtelle is about a Mute boy who raises dogs.
The book club is currently reading Alive (just in time to go to Peru) and Cell by Stephen King, and Love in the Time of Cholera which is, by the way, John Cusack's favorite book. Thanks for the Blog invite Mr. P.
Hey look I'm typing on on Mr. P's blog!! WOOT WOOT! I just got done reading some classics...Uncle Tom's Cabin, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and To Kill A Mockingbird. They were good and it felt good to have them under my belt. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were really hard to read because of the crazy language and the fact that Mark Twain spells all the word they say phonetically.
Grrr,
Jerry
P.S. I'm very disappointed that you didn't use an umlaut on your über, Emily.
Hola y'all. I want to get in on this blogging action, so here I am! Let's see, alright, um, my favorite books are ones with crazy adventure and genereally somebody from Africa. I am currently reading A LONG WAY GONE, THEY POURED FIRE ON US FROM THE SKY, and BORN FREE. I hear that one book (P. Vech, you remember the one Sarah Keenan read) GOD DIDN'T FORGET ABOUT US, or something like that, is really good. Uhh, just for the record, I didn't particularly enjoy THE SCARLET LETTER and couldn't ever get into MOBY DICK, but I absolutely love THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. Just some random thoughts from a nerd. Peace.
I got yelled at for only blogging once. Yelled at. What is that?
I borrowed the last Harry Potter movie from Emily last week and so that got me on a kick to reread them all. I have noticed some things I missed the first time, and I marvel at the imaginative world that was created . . as for the writing . . it kind of stinks. Alas.
Uhh, yelled at? I don't think you can call calmly discussing your recent blogging activity yelling. :-) Anyways, I haven't read Harry Potter since I was like 10 (I know, right, that was FOREVER ago!), so I pretty much know nothing about it besides "Vanacadavra," which McGady curses me with when he's angry.
~Da Cobra
Sorry, I was sternly told that my posting activity was both sub par and a little sparse. I am teaching Animal Farm now and it's amazing to me how polarizing this allegorical fable can be. I think that my students either like it . . . or absolutely hate it. It's a tough sell, I think. Maybe socialism isn't their cup of tea.
I would also like to point out that only cool people have their pictures with their posts.
Psh... we'll just have to discuss the picture thing another time... And, cool? Really? Okay, I'm done practicing facetiousiocity for today. Anyways, I don't like Animal Farm, and you know that... Just talking about it sends shivers down my spine (even though I don't really understand that metaphor... or whatever it is). I started out watching the movie when I was 7, and now even going to the hog farm creeps me out... Thanks Georgie! Wel, since you're sitting right next to me and nobody else seems to be interested in this conversation any more, I am leaving (for now) and I'll talk to you in... the next 30 seconds. Peace
Well, Now that i have read the entire contents of this blog out loud to the both of youi shall post my own comment and then proceed to read it alound. Hmmm...i'm reading The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership. Very interesting and ummmm interesting. I've been into the whole non-fiction self help books as of late. I'm just sitting here and i have really nothing to say and i am just sitting here with nothing to say so i'm just gonna sit here with nothing to say and say "i'm just gonna sit here with nothing to say" over and over again, because i'm just sitting here with nothing to say and i don't know what to write about. (i added that last part just so i could end that extreme run-on sentence with a preposition.)
21 laws? Sounds like 1 too many. What are some of the laws?
I'd like to know so that I can get you to do something, Jerbull.
Apples,
I loved Animal Farm and if your sweaty sophomores do not understand that it is an amazing allegorical fable I say, well I am not really sure what to say other than, they are odd and have nice "mustaches." And I will be getting a picture soon!
Mr. P,
I am sorry I have not made your posters for this blog,:(, during my aiding period I have been forced to work extremely hard with not even a single water break. With my thirst, overbearing teacher (cough cough apples) and my unforgiving work conditions I will try to find time to make them for you.
I have not been reading lately. The last book I read was lame and I did not enjoy it. Titled, The Blue Girl, I thought it would be about teen angst but instead it was about fairies and ghosts. A bit of a disappointment but the ending saved the novel and gave it some good ratings in my book.
I just finished Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (the movie is coming) and it was excellent. A real page turner. I am into the suspense type books...books that I can visualize...books that are realistic. I am not down with wizards , dwarfs, and the like. Call it a personality flaw. "I am what I am and that's what I am."
Okay Emily, I've never had a student die of dehydration in my class, sure a couple had to be medivac-ed to Seattle, but what-ev.
I put a few books on the list of books our library should have, check it out, Alan Lightman is a physicist turned author who writes a lot about how things could be.
As for how someone could not like Animal Farm, I KNOW! Weird.
I have socks on!
I eat chicken for dinner! (That was supposed to be a threatening remark... so you know)
Ooh... eat that and a bag o' potato chips!
nicanut
Carson Harris says, and i quote "I am therefore i think I might poop. A-HA-HA-HWAH"
Becca Denning says, and i quote "GUECLASM!!"
Jerry Gaiser says and he quotes himself saying "Did you know...the largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's...and Jabba the Hut's pet spider monkey is named Salacious Crumb."
Tanner Eshom says and i quote "i thought you were just going to make something up for me"
Charle Appleby says and i quote "(silence with lemonheads crunching in the background)"
Claire Wilken says and i quote "i like taffy?"
Emily Hardman says and i quote...uuhh...umm well she left, nevermind.
Kyla Eike says and i quote "ummmmmm???"
Lila Cenis says and i quote "EXCUSE YER FACE!!"
Oh and books are good too. We really need a random blog so i don't have to clutter your cyber space with my crazy talk.
I say, and I quote, "This has now become our random blog. Hee hee, I love NOT being an admin and having control... I can feel the power ejecting out of my fingertips!
Copro
"JER BEAR" I have a bone to pick with you. You said in your first blog that you read To Kill a Mockingbird, but yesterday in my room you told me you read four chapters and got bored with it. If there's one thing we can't have on this blog its LIES!
CBall
JerBear lives in a house of lies... but that Jerry kid, well he's a different story...
lotteh
I'm with Miss Ball, we certainly can't go through life without reading the entirety of To Kill a Mockingbird. Someone get Jerry a copy so we can end this madness. For those who are cluttering this blog with randomness Emily has started a new blog called BoomBlogerang
visit boomblogerang.blogspot.com. She has already set up two posts.
Matt McGady told me that he's reading a cool book, and if he ever returns it to the library, we should check out Lords of Discipline. On another note does anyone know how to underline on this blog . . . I would really like to underline the titles of books.
Apps out
Cappleby, you're such an English teacher! And yeah, we def need to get Jerry a copy. I know there's some closet in this school with many copies... As far as underlining goes, I think you're out of luck. Bummer, I know. Matt's book sounds sort of creepy, but interesting. Do you know what it's about?
traws
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