April Meeting Info

It looks like our April meeting will be held at IHOP on Tuesday, April 28. The book, as has already been said, is The Pact by Jodi Piccoult. I am telling you, if you have not started this book yet, do yourself a favor-- get it, clear your weekend, and sit and read. You will not be able to put it down. I am enthralled. It has been one of those books for me that when I am not reading it, I am thinking about it and trying to find an excuse to stop what I am doing and read it again. I got to church early tonight so that I could sit in the parking lot and read it. It is amazing. I am finishing it tonight, no matter what. Anyway, just a reminder! See you at IHOP at 6 on the 28th. Make a comment and let me know if you are coming...

Talk to Me

This is an adaptation of a posting I put on my AP blog. I am reading a book called Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. It is fascinating and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Islamic culture and literature. I have marked so many passages and turned down so many corners because I am just waiting for someone to come along who wants to talk to me about a book. :) (I know, I might be waiting a LONG time.) Anyway, here is the passage that stuck out to me so much and reminded me of my students at this point in their life journeys:

It is written at a point when the author is considering leaving Iran for the United States.
"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again."

What do you think? Do you ever have that feeling that you are going to miss the person you are now, that things are changing?

Some thoughts...

I just thought that I would write this blog, because I don't have anything to do right now. I have a student teacher this semester who just started teaching today. She is reading To Kill a Mockingbird with my juniors right now. I am sooo sad. I love that book. I am a little jealous. I want to make my little witty comments throughout the book so that I can look cool and awesome. It is one of my favorite things to teach, as you can tell. I like her though, so it's ok...I guess. :)

What Do You Think?

Perhaps because I am such a blog-addict, or perhaps because I just wanted to see how this worked, but I wondered if you all were interested in a Book Club blog? I figured we could use it both to post information on locales and times and books, as well as post things on here when we read things we think others might like. I might put postings on here to sort of review books. I don't know. I thought it would be fun to try. What do you all think?