Please join us for an ALAN Online BookChat to discuss FIRESTORM by David Klass.
Date: 3/21/07Time: 9:00 PM EasternURL: http://alan-ya.org/bookchat/flashchat.php
Here’s more about FIRESTORM:
“His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn’t broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. [...]
Does everyone realize that young males in our society are seeing themselves less and less in the literature that is supposed to reach out to them?
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I’ve managed to read my marinating manuscript twice since unwrapping it. As promised, I read without a pen or pencil, and on the first run, I only wrote down comments two times. Both comments were for new ideas that popped in my head as I read, and I knew I would forget them later. On [...]
I’ve posted the transcript for last night’s ALAN Online Book Club Chat at http://alan-ya.org/chat_sandpiper.pdf for anyone interested. Thanks to all the lj-ers who joined in the fun and remember that Ellen Wittlinger herself will be joining us on 2/28 for a Q&A about her work.
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Obviously, my blog is in the gutter.
thunderchikin’s Word Usage
1. scrotum (63)
26. with (7)
51. month (4)
76. models (3)
2. to (42)
27. do (7)
52. tagged (4)
77. maybe (3)
3. and (40)
28. them (7)
53. it’s (4)
[...]
I went to a place today.
They locked the door behind me.
I wore the uniform they gave me,
the way that they told me.
I sat where they told me.
Did the job they assigned me.
Ate what they told me
When they told me.
Exercised in the yard,
Twenty minutes on the grounds
When they let me, but still
Guarded, watched, directed.
Then marched single-file [...]
professornana
will be there, too.
“We’re starting something new at ALAN Online. Join the ALAN Book Club and become part of a new online group of readers unlike any other on the whole planet! Here’s how it works. Once a month, the third Wednesday to be precise, at 9 PM Eastern Time, we will meet online [...]
Did you know that if you put a book in the drawer on the 22nd of one month, you have to wait until the 22nd of the next month for one month to elapse?
Duh, duh, duh.
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