RIP Challenge Novel #2
This novel...well, I am still reading the series because my young adult students are reading them. While I really enjoyed the first two or three novels in The House of Night Series, I quickly began doubting the "validity" of such a fantasy...so much happens...it just cannot be real.
Oh, that's right! This is fantasy! But still...I wish the authors PC Cast and Kristen Cast would allow the characters to rest, to allow some time to pass between the major battles these young heroines and heroes are winning.
Zoey Redbird and her friends bite into (yes, that pun was intended) another adventure as the continue their year of schooling at the House of Night.
Please click here to read or listen to chapter one of this novel...enjoy!
Monday, September 7, 2009
#39: The Thirteenth Tale
RIP Challenge Novel #1
Twisted! I loved this novel! Diane Setterfield's debut novel The Thirteenth Tale was a great one to read to begin the RIP Challenge as it takes the reader on a journey over a span of time into the lives of Ms. Winter, who has commissioned Margaret Lea to write her life story.
I like to pride myself on determining a novel's end about midway through...but not this one. Needless, to say I was hooked!
Don't wait for the next RIP Challenge to read this...read it now! A great story!
Twisted! I loved this novel! Diane Setterfield's debut novel The Thirteenth Tale was a great one to read to begin the RIP Challenge as it takes the reader on a journey over a span of time into the lives of Ms. Winter, who has commissioned Margaret Lea to write her life story.
I like to pride myself on determining a novel's end about midway through...but not this one. Needless, to say I was hooked!
Don't wait for the next RIP Challenge to read this...read it now! A great story!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
#38: A Whole New Mind
Draft...in progress!
This book offered a new perspective, a scary perspective. Because of this book, I fear for my children's future careers. That is...unless they want to move to India. Every mother should fear the term outsourcing.
Daniel Pink writes a thought-provoking book, one that I read with peers as a part of our 21 CLC team this summer. This study concluded with a Skyped Q & A with Daniel Pink, himself, who, by the way, writes in a very normal-looking room within his house. (Funny how we think such people might just live in houses of gold and have an abundance of staff taking care of their every little need, including sharpening their pencils...wait, that example is pre-digital world!)
Back to the topic...
This book offered a new perspective, a scary perspective. Because of this book, I fear for my children's future careers. That is...unless they want to move to India. Every mother should fear the term outsourcing.
Daniel Pink writes a thought-provoking book, one that I read with peers as a part of our 21 CLC team this summer. This study concluded with a Skyped Q & A with Daniel Pink, himself, who, by the way, writes in a very normal-looking room within his house. (Funny how we think such people might just live in houses of gold and have an abundance of staff taking care of their every little need, including sharpening their pencils...wait, that example is pre-digital world!)
Back to the topic...
Saturday, August 15, 2009
#35-37: House of Night Books 2-4
The vampire saga continues...just wish I had number 5.
This week (between working on lesson plans, attending workshops, visiting with family, working at church, and, oh, yes, recuperating), I have read the next three books in this series (thanks to their arrival from half.com!)
Teenagers, especially females, will like this series, set in a high school scene. Full of action...well, actually, non-stop action, the reader is never bored as Zoey Redbird leads her team through many adventures as they either protect themselves or others in their first few months in the House of Night.
While some content may be a bit risque and some language could have been changed or even left out, I am not so prudish as to think our young adults are not exposed to such topics; just wish it were not so (okay, that was the mother in me that wrote those previous two lines!).
For a fun read, an interesting escape from the world of normalcy, spend some time with Zoey and her friends.
This week (between working on lesson plans, attending workshops, visiting with family, working at church, and, oh, yes, recuperating), I have read the next three books in this series (thanks to their arrival from half.com!)
Teenagers, especially females, will like this series, set in a high school scene. Full of action...well, actually, non-stop action, the reader is never bored as Zoey Redbird leads her team through many adventures as they either protect themselves or others in their first few months in the House of Night.
While some content may be a bit risque and some language could have been changed or even left out, I am not so prudish as to think our young adults are not exposed to such topics; just wish it were not so (okay, that was the mother in me that wrote those previous two lines!).
For a fun read, an interesting escape from the world of normalcy, spend some time with Zoey and her friends.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
#34: The Last Lecture
Draft...in progress
Awesome! Inspiring! Role-model for us all.
Randy's Pausch's The Last Lecture contains his last thoughts on many topics through last few months of life.
Tear-Cherker Alert: I am not a cryer; I do not cry at movies nor when I read sappy parts within novels, but this one brought me to tears.
Feeling unhappy with life, with your life, with other people's lives? Read this little book for a life-changing perspective.
Awesome! Inspiring! Role-model for us all.
Randy's Pausch's The Last Lecture contains his last thoughts on many topics through last few months of life.
Tear-Cherker Alert: I am not a cryer; I do not cry at movies nor when I read sappy parts within novels, but this one brought me to tears.
Feeling unhappy with life, with your life, with other people's lives? Read this little book for a life-changing perspective.
Friday, August 7, 2009
#33: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts...
DRAFT...work in progress!
Written by Will Richardson, a leading tech-tool user, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms is a book full of tips and tricks, a book I would have appreciated even more had I read it a year and a half ago as I began my Web 2.0 journey.
As with any good literature, though, one can always glean even more nuggets, and that is what I did. I reviewed blogs, wikis, RSS, and Flickr and learned even more, especially about RSS and Flickr, both of which I have, neither of which I utilize to their fullest.
Podcasts...that one I learned a lot about, that one I hope to really utilize within my 1:1 laptop classroom.
Written by Will Richardson, a leading tech-tool user, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms is a book full of tips and tricks, a book I would have appreciated even more had I read it a year and a half ago as I began my Web 2.0 journey.
As with any good literature, though, one can always glean even more nuggets, and that is what I did. I reviewed blogs, wikis, RSS, and Flickr and learned even more, especially about RSS and Flickr, both of which I have, neither of which I utilize to their fullest.
Podcasts...that one I learned a lot about, that one I hope to really utilize within my 1:1 laptop classroom.
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