January 2009 archive

What are you reading?

Dear Readers,

A snow day is a great time to curl up with a good book and a mug of hot chocolate.  I’ve been scanning the newspaper and browsing through one of my magazines, Discipleship Journal.  This afternoon I want to finish a John Grisham book I started before Christmas–Playing for Pizza.  As you might guess, it’s not one of my favorites.  I really don’t like Rick Dockery.  He’s a spoiled third-string quarterback in the NFL.  After completely losing a game (and a 17 point lead) in the last few minutes of a game, he is out of a job and desparate to play football–anywhere, for any one.  That’s how he ends up playing American football for the Parma Panthers in Parma, Italy.  Confronting his culture shock does help Rick grow up a little bit, but I’m finding it hard to care much about him.  Since I have less than 100 pages less, I’ll go ahead and finish just to see what happens. 

How are you coming with reading the books for your author research project?  Go ahead and post your reactions to the book and any questions you have about it on your page.  Other readers (including me) may be able to help you out.  I am working on creating links with your pages.  Thanks to those of you who added links yesterday.

As you learn how to do things with edublogs, please post them as well.  Add a tag for edublogs tips so we can find it.

Happy reading!

Writing on a snow day.

Dear Readers,

I hope you are enjoying your snow day today.  The sledding is great down the hill in our yard.  I hope to walk through the woods later this afternoon.  I think both the sledding and the hike through the snow will be great writing opportunities.  What could you write about your snow day?  A poem?  A memoir?  If you are so inspired, write something about the snow and post it on your page.  I’ll share if I come up with something.