Comment Moderation Is ON

Just an FYI guys-- I'm not sure what happened, but all of a sudden some serious spam has started to show up in our comments. I'm turning on the comment moderation feature (rather than your comments showing up immediately, they get emailed to me for approval first and then I publish them) for a while until hopefully everything goes back to normal. Sorry you won't see your comments immediately, but I promise I'll try to stay on top of moderating and get them published quickly!

:)
Mrs. P

Last Meeting for The Book Thief this Friday!

Just so we're all on the same page...
We're going to finish the book for our meeting Friday! I definitely haven't read enough this weekend, but I'll get on it tonight. :) I'm still at a loss as to what we should do to "celebrate" finishing this book. Any ideas? We could do a food thing-- order pizza? Everyone bring a dessert to share? What do you guys think?

All right, I'm off to read.
:)
Mrs. P

As requested, Diary of a Wimpy Kid!

I haven't read this book, so hopefully there are enough of you out there to generate a fun conversation about this book/series. Which one is your favorite? How's the new one? What makes them so popular, you think?

Discuss!
:)
Mrs. p

As requested, Life As We Knew It!

We discussed this book some last year, but let's revisit. Who's read it? What did you think of it? I'll jump in later...

:)
Mrs. P

12 days and counting...

Okay, I really trimmed down the last New Moon post, so if yours got deleted, I apologize. I don't normally do that-- I try to honor everyone's voice-- but what was there was a little overwhelming. Or underwhelming. :) Anyway, we'll see how it goes here!

I will be adding posts for Life As We Knew It and Diary of a Wimpy Kid as requested. :)

Someone asked whose team I'm on... While I like Jacob as a character, to me he's just not the love story-- the love story is Bella and Edward. So count me on Team Edward I suppose. :) In the book, he's hard not to appreciate!

Others have asked what the Twilight Saga is about; click here to read the story behind the novel Twilight, and click here to read about New Moon (and the titles are hyperlinked to Amazon.com to so you can read synopses of the books). Hopefully this helps!

One of the posts I deleted actually made me stop and think after the fact-- someone said they didn't like Bella, but they liked the books. Now I am sorry I deleted that, because Bella's perceived weakness is probably the most common criticism of the books. So let's discuss it! What do we think of Bella? Is she Every Girl, or is she too weak to represent? Hmm...

:)
Mrs. P

18 Days Until New Moon Arrives!

The countdown begins!
We are coming up with some cool ideas for ways to celebrate this super-cool event, including the same sort of trivia game we ran for Twilight, so keep your eyes on the blog and your ears on the morning announcements for more info. To start, you must decide--
~Are you a member of Team Edward or Team Jacob?~

You will have to declare your allegience in the library, and then you will earn points for your team. I think. I'm working on it!

Regardless, if you haven't seen all the new and cool stuff on the official Stephenie Meyer website, click here to see the latest and greatest.

This one I really like! The New Moon Movie Blog is killing time before the movie release by re-reading the book together, a chapter a day! They are on chapter 7 now, so it wouldn't be too hard to catch up if you are interested. I might join in here soon!

MTV has a pretty extensive New Moon news page, so you can check that out as well by clicking here.

Any other sources of info you guys know about? Let me know!

:)
Mrs. P

Meeting Monday

There was some confusion, but let's meet on Monday. I thought that's what we had decided at the last meeting; that way everyone should have time to get caught up on pages and we'll all be able to move forward from there.

I am not going to post discussion questions just yet over Part Eight, because I want to give you this forum to ask questions. Has there been anything at all in the book that you are unsure about? Anything you wish to discuss? Let's hear it!

See you guys Monday... Have a great Halloween weekend!
:)
Mrs. P