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Comment on Elf Resigns! Goes Off Shelf! by thevoraciousreaderblog

thevoraciousreaderblog — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:19:16 +0000

“Well look who his boss is. He sees you when your sleeping, knows when you’re awake?”

Whoa, wait a minute, the Elf works for Edward Cullen?!

Comment on Elf Resigns! Goes Off Shelf! by Joyce

Joyce — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:27:32 +0000

Well look who his boss is. He sees you when your sleeping, knows when you’re awake? What a stalker!

http://joycelansky.blogspot.com

Comment on Elf Resigns! Goes Off Shelf! by thejennyevolution

thejennyevolution — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:30:07 +0000

It’s a new Linky Party! Every Friday, share your favorite blog entry of the week and find out what others have been writing about this week! I’ve made this list a blog hop. So feel free to link this up on your site, too. http://www.fridayflashblog.blogspot.com.

I hope you’ll join us! (And the Elf, now that he has more free time.)
Jennifer

Comment on What Books Do by thevoraciousreaderblog

thevoraciousreaderblog — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:09:41 +0000

Thanks, Jill, I’m touched by your kind words. TFIOS was amazing wasn’t it? As author John Green refers to it: “a literary sobfest.”

Comment on Quality Matters by Jill Simpson

Jill Simpson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:55:36 +0000

I have to confess, I don’t subscribe to the “anything as long as they’re reading” idea. To some extent, garbage in/garbage out. Everything certainly doesn’t have to be great literature, but I drew the line at certain things like Captain Underpants. Just as with food, I hate the idea of giving kids the message that what’s good for them and what tastes good and is enjoyable are mutually exclusive categories . . .

Comment on What Books Do by Jill Simpson

Jill Simpson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:50:24 +0000

What a beautiful post. I don’t know how you manage to do it, Francine, but thank you for continuing to share your love of reading and life with all of us readers, young and old, despite such a profound and life-altering loss. I am glad to hear that there have been books that somehow help, even on those darkest of days. One such book for me recently was “The Fault Is in Our Stars,” which, with its candor and dark but wonderful sense of humor, really told it like it is. I loved it. I look forward to reading The Snow Child on your recommendation.

Comment on What Books Do by Meg

Meg — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:12:30 +0000

I’m so sorry for your loss — and I can appreciate powerful lines in stories that change us fundamentally, change the way we feel about life and the world.

Though it’s in no way comparable, my own internal landscape was changed after breaking up with my first love — and I turned to one book to get me through that time, a time when my heart was jagged and full of splinters. I read Peter McWilliams’ How To Survive The Loss Of A Love daily for months, and it’s really about all sorts of losses . . . real ones, through death, but also the loss of dreams we had, the loss of a love we shared and hope we once felt. Eight years later, many of those lines are still with me.

Comment on Quality Matters by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Lynda Mullaly Hunt — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:20:18 +0000

I really like the comparison you make here to food choices.

We feel the same here. I have always offered up varied genres of books. We find that books that spur conversation and debate tend to be good ones. It was fun (ironically when they began to disagree–watching them form their own arguments to back up their opinions was very cool. That’s what it’s about, right? Books opening their world–and minds–to other things. Other points of view.

Comment on A Dozen Ways to Create Book Culture by Suzy Allman

Suzy Allman — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:20:48 +0000

Joined the Greenwich Public Library. Yes there’s a fee if you’re not a resident but what a library! We also encourage writing in the margins of books reading with a pencil. It will be there when you’re long gone!

Comment on A Dozen Ways to Create Book Culture by Annette W

Annette W — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:16:37 +0000

I love this! Thanks for a great list!