so before we get started with the reading material for this week, a few clarifications/notes of interest…
one, i owe hal higdon an apology – i wrote previously on this wonderful blog that i wanted nothing more to do with him after rereading “marathon,” and then this morning, i find my sister (who denies my existence on facebook apparently), yes, my dear sister, is training for our chicago marathon under the tutelage of, yes, hal higdon – so follow me… while i want literally nothing more to do with the literary work of higdon, on occasion, it appears i will unknowingly have literally something to do with him – my sister’s running (and for some reason, this time, that includes me on long runs…)
two, i have a new theory that explains life – based upon “stargirl” – the theory is that we all have tangible indicators of our happieness – for stargirl, it was her wagon and those 20 marbles – for me, it’s a refridgerator that’s actually full of food – first time in years – which must mean…
you’re all coming back to me!!!
oh joy… anyway, on to reading…
“crimson memories” by john forney – only radio football announcer i know of who wrote short stories – who knew??? very creative and impressive for a football guy – and some decent windows into what the university of alabama looked like in the 1940s
“the story of us” – with the advent of school, i can admit this is a high school BOB – and a good one at that – basically, two kids in 1996 can acess their facebook pages in 2011 – and what they see disturbs them – i’m curious if high school kids will enjoy anything in the book beyond the romance – as for a kid that graduated in ’96, i can assure you that life wasn’t nearly as exciting as the book makes that year:) i can also say that if a hypothetical me had acessed my facebook page in ’11, i would hope that while he wouldn’t recognize me physically, he’d see that most of the things he held most dear in 1996 are the things he holds true to in 2011
and isn’t that a good things? to figure things out early and cling to them as life comes at you???
j
Dear Mr. Mayfield,
I read Warriors 3: Forest of Secrets by Erin Hunter for 6th grade homework, and chose to compare it to another book.
Warriors is a series of books about 4 different clans of cats. The clans are ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan. All have 1 leader, 1 deputy, 1 medicine cat, a number of warriors, elders, queens, and kits. Warriors from the clans hunt, while queens nurse kits, and look over maturing kittens. Each clan has a different scent they use to mark their territories.
The perspective is from the view of the narrator/reader reading about a “kitty-pet”, Rusty, forming into the ThunderClan warrior,
Fireheart.
So far, Fireheart has become a full warrior. He has a friend, Graystripe, who has fallen in love with a Warrior-princess, Silverstream, and is expecting kits soon. It TOATALLY against the clan law to fall in love with another clan warrior, AND, warriors aren’t supposed to be having kits.
Fireheart also has his doubts about ThunderClan’s Deputy, Tigerclaw. Rumor has it he killed the former deputy, Redtail.
But, the book I wanted to compare is The Grimm Legacy, mainly because it has a few things in common. Here are the comparisons:
Same:
*Has at least 2 characters falling in love
*Has betrayal
*Has a character and his/her groupies
*Has mysterious things going on during the chapters
*Has leader/boss
*Is Non-Fic
Different:
*Warriors is about cats
*Grimm Legacy is about girl who gets job at a repository
*The cats fight
*Elizabeth does not fight
*Cats hunt
*Cats have odd names
*Grimm is about magic
That’s about it for now. I’ll wrap it up by saying, Write to you next time!
Sincerely,
Emily Stoves