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ut 70 pages to read in the 1972 update and i peeked through the 1995 edition none of the language has been updated nor have citations been added in any of the later editions so there goes my hopes i was really hoping for citations at the very least in the 1995 edition i think if i had a child reading this there would be some supplemental reading and research going on especially if interest was sparked in a particular topic it was just too much of a storybook and not so much a history book in my opinion next up on the newbery list is the voyages of doctor doolittle the 1923 winner i ve got an illustrated junior library edition checked out from the coralville public library so i m ready to go here s a list of the vocabulary from the last half of the story of mankind sturgeon cipher serf which is not defined nearly as well as it should be in the text thither commodity unscrupulous parallelopiped heresy heresies mulcted which i had to look up because none of us had heard of it ever zwingli abjured predestination remonstrance timorous sinn fein er buncombe demagogues tercentenary obdurate bumptious ambiguous putsch i polished off the host finally and was surprised that it took me nearly a month each of stephenie meyer s twilight books only took a couple of hours i didn t read them i inhaled them however with the host i started seeing too many similarities with twilight and that had me a little disturbed and worried that somehow stephenie meyer was a bit of a one note the host does have an interesting premise a sort of body snatchers setting with a love triangle quadrangle depending on how you count souls and bodies but i stalled about 200 pages from the end due to a soccer game there s a baseball game in twilight a slightly predictable ending never intimate that the narrator is going to die in a first person narrative with nearly 20 pages left in the book but i really appreciated how sm wrote the necessary exposition into the storyline of the book i e wanda s stories rather than devote pages and pages to it separately i also finished songs for the missing an advance copy of the next stewart o nan novel never having read o nan kat staff rec d last night at the lobster i wasn t quite sure what to expect lurid simple absurd strangely enough the situation seemed almost mundane aside from an eighteen year old gone missing it wasn t mundane as in i m so bored i can t finish this but mundane like this is life this is what happens when a child goes missing other readers compared songs for the missing to alice sebold s the lovely bones which is a phenomenal novel simply for the power of the author s descriptions there are some parallels but what was striking to me was that after kim went missing in the first chapter that was it no following her until she s grabbed no struggle or what the perpetrator did with the car instead we stay with the family and friends as they try to find her the lovely bones being a first person narrative followed susie s thoughts as she watched her family and that provided a completely different sense of the action one thing i really noticed and appreciated throughout songs for the missing was the choice of third person narrative the narration wasn t truly omniscient and tended to follow one specific character for each chapter fran ed lindsay jp nina a very thoughtful novel about how time continues to push us forward even when something terrible happens eventually you have to go back to work to school in other random life events i bought a porch swing yay evenings on the porch reading napping etc must get more citronella to ward off the mosquitoes it was a pain to assemble because apparently it was requires two adults for assembly phoo on them i did eventually get the assembly done all by my little self and we had an ra bugger off last week and not do what the boss told him to do before he left so i had a panic and a cold sweat on monday turns out he threw his project at a different new ra and left her to do the surveillance cultures instead of me like the boss said he should i was supposed to take everything over and then train the new ra luckily the new ra is a lab person so figured out pretty quickly what the project was and got monday and tuesday finished before i found out that she was on the project whew but the little bastard didn t mention several key things like how to order more product how to use the spreadsheet on the shared drive so all of us can stay current on the surveillance or that other units do surveillance too and so you should check the patient s records so we don t duplicate testing fyi this is the same little bastard i complained about several months ago he was just up here talking to one of the secretaries i guess he needs employment for the summer i vote no and think we should just hire someone else who is responsible and doesn t act like the sun shines out his posterior i ve been thinking of very painful things and i hope he comes back in his next lifetime as a roach or something and the weather has been really really crappy lately current book in progress persuasion the gunseller lord of the flies the spirit of the place ideas only 270 pages left the shakespeare wars only 150 pages left and the voyages of doctor doolittle current knitted item i ve been a very lazy knitter current movie obsession little miss sunshine i haven t watched any tv movies lately except for the news and weather strange so lms is just sitting in my dvd player ready to go current itunes loop john mayer any given tuesday concert album with a kick ass riff in the middle of gravity posted by melissa ward at 3 27 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels newbery project newbery vocab rant stuff i read weather 17 february 2008 snow again yet again this winter i am stuck in my house not because the roads are terrible they aren t great but they aren t blown shut but because it has taken all day for the snow removal team to show up and plow the lot i tried to get out around 3 15pm to go to the store mother hubbard s cupboard is a little bare and that worked not so well it took two neighbors to help me get the car back in the garage and lots of shovelling three of us were trying to get out one in particular because he needed to go to the drugstore because his kids were sick we shovelled and shovelled and the guy with the 4x4 was able to finally get traction so he went to the drugstore for the other neighbor i do actually have nice neighbors some days they are just now plowing the lot 4 30 sigh maybe i can go to the store later we were supposed to have book group tonight and decided that we would postpone for a week given that three people were coming down from cedar rapids and they got more snow than we did so next week we re having a joint book oscar party yum in anticipation for what was tonight s party i bought a coffee table yay i d been looking for one for a while and finally found one at kmart that didn t break the bank i still had to put it together though pain in the butt looks pretty nice i have a picture of the cats laying on it before i even got the drawers finished since i obviously purchased the item so they have yet another flat surface to inhabit i also indulged in my yarn buying habit another skien of mountain colors bearfoot sock yarn mmmmm and four skiens of really gorgeous cascade pastaza paints in a red variegated color the cats chewed a hole in my red scarf so i have an excuse to make a new one only slightly better and maybe a hat as well since i m stuck at home i guess i ll read and organize the yarn stash it s starting to become unruly a little coffee some yarn music good book decent evening current book in progress the club dumas i totally did not know this book was the basis for the johnny depp movie the ninth gate after that dream i m trying to finish more books than i start and that s really really hard for some reason current knitted item well i m still working on the blue socks but i started my new scarf going to make it similar half moss stitch half something else with a reversible pattern current movie obsession i m still working on the iptv northanger abbe y but i developed a minor obsession with sense and sensibility again kate winslet might be the most beautiful woman ever current itunes loop i ve been on a pretty hard core john mayer kick today his music seems to warm up a dreary day posted by melissa ward at 4 28 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cats new yarn start itis weather older posts home subscribe to posts atom welcome scuffed slippers and wormy books is the little corner of the web where i post my reviews of books movies and music books more often than not talk about my knitting and share the occasional photograph my cats chaucer and dante make appearances too i am a former dancer a research associate in hospital epidemiology by day and a bookseller by night i can be 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