November 4!

Hi all,

It is 9:30pm on November 4 and I just got home from work. I would love to post but my mind is mush. I'll talk to you tomorrow when I've revived! Miss you two.

Sarah

Just started but...

...I couldn't resist sharing this passage on the house being shabby:  “for they were gifted, her children, but all in quite different ways.  And the result of it was, she sighed, taking in the whole room from floor to ceiling…that things got shabbier and got shabbier summer after summer.”

Love it!  Blame the brilliance of my children for the mess of my house!  Yeah, that’s the ticket!

It Has Been Decreed

(By me.  Just now.)  To the Lighthouse, November 4th.  Yay us!

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

She looks pretty harmless. I think I've only ever read A Room of One's Own. I am up for trying To The Lighthouse. Besides, how could I pass up reading"one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time,” a book considered to be "one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century?!" I can't. To The Lighthouse!

game plan?

To quote the Jungle Book vultures: "I don't know; What do you want to do?" I would be happy to start a new book. But it sounded like Never Let Me Go had been on your reading list for a bit and I don't want to skip over your pick. How about this: we'll move on with Natalie's pick and but whenever you do read it, we can circle back and talk about it then? What do you two think?

Natalie, did you post about Gabby and then delete it? I'm sorry she had that experience. And that the point of the anti-bullying curriculum was lost on her classmates. Blech. But the photo of you all in your Dolphins gear was terrific! Go Team Emiliani!

Another Deadline Blows By

Well, the suggestion of finishing by August 22 has come and gone.  Anyone read it?  I've tried, but I'm not having much luck.  I've been on vacation and have had plenty of reading time, but it just wasn't compelling enough for me to stick with it.  I can't really put my finger on what it is that I don't particularly like.  I intend to keep trying, though.  Unless, of course, you both tell me otherwise.

Let's Try...

Never Let Me Go as the next title, with a finish date goal of August 22nd.  That gives us 6 weeks, and we'll be able to celebrate Sarah's birthday, too.

I have put the website into my Google RSS feed.  So I do get notices of both posts and comments.  But if you don't have an RSS feed, that's a stumbling block.  Would you prefer we discuss over Facebook?  I've noticed that you can "chat" with more than one person at a time on FB if we all happen to be on at the same time, and/or we can just try to keep track our our thoughts through FB e-mail.  I can go either way -- I just want to do whatever is easier for you girls.

Sarah, I'd love to hear your thoughts on ATOTC.  So whenever you feel like dumping them, go ahead!