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Post by nansel on Nov 29, 2017 10:14:20 GMT -5
It wasn't that so much - it made a point of saying that these kids ARE quite varied in personality types and interests. My issue was with things like...the author is a really big fan of using movies to provide gifted students with something they can connect with. Well, my gifted oldest has zero interest in movies. And the "creating an emotionally inviting classroom" suggestions are things that would have made my gifted self roll my eyes and think "can we just learn something already," rather than making me feel like I could really bond with the others in my class. Funnily enough, that might have worked with my kid. On the other hand, I would have been rolling my eyes with you. My dd wanted to be "normal", I just wanted to learn stuff and didn't care about connecting with anyone.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Nov 29, 2017 17:14:05 GMT -5
I love educators that think all children (whether gifted or not) are a homogeneous group of people that all learn the same
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Post by maurinsky on Dec 5, 2017 10:14:51 GMT -5
Last Christmas, I did a "blind date with a book" type of gifting, where I wrapped some books in brown paper and wrote a brief description on it, and let people choose which one they wanted. My sisters loved it and they want to do it again, but the first two books I thought of are ones I gave away last year, so I need to find some new ones.
I'm definitely going to gift Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. because it is hilarious but also inspiring (but also filthy). I think I will also gift Sick In The Head by Judd Apatow, because I also found that one inspirational and funny.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Dec 5, 2017 16:48:51 GMT -5
I finished I am a Truck - it was just okay for me. I'm moving on to Transit by Rachel Cusk (also shortlisted for the Giller) I'm not really digging this. It's the novel version of that friend that you haven't seen for ages who sits down and regales you tales of all of her other friends/coworkers/relatives that you've never met . Nothing happens - the main character just introduces you to fringe people in her life and then tells some story about them. It's well written but boring. There's almost no dialogue because it's all "And then she said blah blah blah"
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Dec 13, 2017 17:40:30 GMT -5
I started Brother by David Chariandry but I'm taking a bit of a break. I decided to read some festive romances and I can't really find any by Canadian authors so I'm cheating and reading American ones . I read Let it Snow which is a collection of 3 YA Christmas romances with interconnected stories. The first story was a lot of fun, the 2nd one was okay, and the 3rd one was pretty miserable . Now I'm reading Dash and Lily's Dares which is fun so far. I'm also reading the Massey Murder which is about a murder that took place in Toronto in 1915 and was apparently a sensation. A member of the prominent Massey family (of Massey-Ferguson fame) was killed by his 18 year old maid.
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Post by dharma on Dec 13, 2017 21:39:03 GMT -5
I started Brother by David Chariandry but I'm taking a bit of a break. I decided to read some festive romances and I can't really find any by Canadian authors so I'm cheating and reading American ones . I read Let it Snow which is a collection of 3 YA Christmas romances with interconnected stories. The first story was a lot of fun, the 2nd one was okay, and the 3rd one was pretty miserable . Now I'm reading Dash and Lily's Dares which is fun so far. I'm also reading the Massey Murder which is about a murder that took place in Toronto in 1915 and was apparently a sensation. A member of the prominent Massey family (of Massey-Ferguson fame) was killed by his 18 year old maid. Are you the one who recommended the Col Sanders romance? That was awesome. I'm reading Caroline, Little House Revisited ... a new book about the Ingalls family from Caroline's perspective when they first moved to Kansas. Mary is 5 and Laura is 3 and she's pregnant (with Carrie assuming all goes well with that pregnancy); and the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Dec 14, 2017 15:58:10 GMT -5
Maybe I mean I absolutely read it and I know I mentioned it here but I don't know if I was the first or not . I feel like maybe no - I miss the old board for being able to look shit like that up .
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Post by mmeblue on Dec 14, 2017 16:25:10 GMT -5
I gave up on The Riddle and the Knight pretty quickly. Reading it was like talking to someone who really likes the sound of his own voice.
Still slogging through Gulliver's Travels. It's not bad, just a little slow.
I'm also reading The Gospel of God: Romans, by R.C. Sproul.
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Post by Mabel on Dec 15, 2017 11:41:48 GMT -5
I’m actually embarrassed to admit what I’m reading- it’s pure drivel 😂 I can’t think of either title, but I just finished up the latest House of Night book (they started that series back up and I’d read them way back when), and now I’m reading a dystopian novel written by the YouTuber Joey Graceffa 😳 To be fair I only got it because I read it was really good 😳 but maybe his fans are just saying that for all I know 😂
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Dec 16, 2017 10:04:23 GMT -5
Drivel's good (see aforementioned Tender Wings of Desire ). I finished Brother - such a good book. It's about two brothers who grow up in a poor neighbourhood in Scarborough - two young men of colour - sons of a single mother immigrant. It's about love, and hard work, and violence, and lost opportunities. I'm making an effort to read books that take place outside of my white world.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Dec 21, 2017 17:19:46 GMT -5
I'm currently reading the Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline - which is a post apocalyptic tale in which Indigenous people are the only people that can dream and the government are rounding up Indigenous people in a new creation of residential schools to essentially torture and kill them to find out their secrets. The plot is a little thin - the actual apocalypse is apparently global warming - lots of rain and rising water - the author doesn't really explain why not dreaming is a bad enough thing that you need to kill people for - but the actual characters in the book are interesting enough - a group of people on the run from these "recruiters" who all have their own horror stories to tell - I just wished she'd worked out the world building part a little better.
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Post by kimm on Dec 22, 2017 19:37:04 GMT -5
I just realized I have not participated in this thread since the old board. Since this was started, I have finished: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Die Young With Me by Rob Rufus Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst Lucky You by Erika Carter Mad by Chloe Esposito The Burning Girl by Claire Messud I am about to start Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Dec 22, 2017 20:59:38 GMT -5
I’m sad because my book club ended this month (some clashing personalities), but I did meet my Goodreads challenge of reading 75 books this year. I’m thinking I’ll read A Christmas Carol, since I never have.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Dec 23, 2017 8:35:19 GMT -5
Sorry about your book club, but congrats on the 75! I usually set my challenge at 52 because that's easy . This year I set it at 60 and I'm at 68. One year I made 100 but I felt like that was work and it took some of the fun out . I started Kay's Lucky Coin Variety last night by Ann YK Choi and I'm really loving it so far. It's about a teenager (who emigrated to Canada from Korea as a young child)in Toronto who's parents own a convenience store. It's technically a coming of age story - but I just really like the perspective of this girl who's caught between her traditional hard working Korean parents and her desire to just be a "white" girl. As an added bonus it takes place in the 80's!
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Post by maurinsky on Dec 28, 2017 8:15:16 GMT -5
I didn't have a specific goal but I basically read a book every other week, so 26 books (although it will be 27 very soon).
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Post by Eli on Dec 28, 2017 10:32:06 GMT -5
I had to stop setting big goals on Goodreads. Like WOG, I felt that it took the enjoyment out of reading and I found myself reading crap just to meet the goal. I have been in a reading funk for a bit. I'm not sure if it was what I was reading but nothing really has grabbed me. I just finished Magic Bites, a Katie Daniels book, but I started it in October.
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Post by kimm on Dec 28, 2017 12:18:16 GMT -5
I am reading The Orphan Choir by Sophie Hannah.
I set my Goodreads goal as 53 this year and I am at 61 right now. It doesn't bother me if I don't meet it, but it does help me stop surfing the net and read most nights.
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Post by junebug on Dec 28, 2017 13:28:25 GMT -5
Books I've read (or listened to) over the past month:
1. Telex From Cuba - by Rachel Kushner - set in the 1950s, tells the story of Americans in Cuba at the time of the Castro revolution. Very good, although she named one of the protaganists "Rachel K" which annoyed me. 2. Falls the Shadow - by Sharon Kay Penman - historical novel set in the reign of Henry III. Fun to read while working in the UK and staying across the river from the Tower! 3. Exit West (audio) - by Mohsin Hamid - so hard to describe. seems to be set in modern day Middle East (although no actual country is referened) amid war. Tells the story of two young people in love amid the chaos of war..then mysterious doors/portals start opening up around the world and people become travelers and refugees. Beautiful language, but I admit, I am still processing. 4. Lincoln in the Bardo - I listened to this and read it at the same time. I really really loved it - and I think listening to all of the different voices in the audio book (David Sedaris!) really made it work for me. 5. The Homegoing - by Yaa Gyasi - tells the story (across multiple generations) of two sisters from Ghana. One marries a white man and stays in Africa and one is sent on a slave ship the the American South. Every other chapter is told from the perspective of a decendant of the sisters. This one really worked for me, I love it.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Dec 28, 2017 16:53:01 GMT -5
I finished the Massey Murder - the book wasn't so much about the murder as it was about the class structure in Toronto in 1915 and the various things were forcing change (women's rights, WWI, etc). It was really interesting.
Now I'm reading The Jade Peony which is about a Chinese immigrant family in 1930's Vancouver. The book is divided into sections and each section is told from the perspective of a different child in the book - but moving forward chronologically. I'm really enjoying it so far.
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Post by Miss Prudey on Dec 28, 2017 22:51:19 GMT -5
I read A Christmas Carol, so now I’m going to read Jacob T. Marley.
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