Monday, June 21, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Book of the week!
Hello all I have been super busy but I am going to try and get back on track! The book of the week is Whirligig, By Paul Fleischman. I absolutely loved this book when I read it years ago.
Brent Bishop, the new kid in eleventh grade, has just committed social suicide at the party he counted on to make him cool. Drunk, enraged and humiliated, he decides real suicide is the only future he wants. When it's over, Brent just has bruises, but Lea, a loving, eighteen-year-old honor student, the driver who hit him, is killed. Her mother wants Brent to keep the girl's spirit alive by making four whirligigs with her face and her name and planting one in each corner of the country. With a bus pass, a book and a photograph, Brent takes on her task. As he spreads Lea's spirit, she gives him his own, and by the time he is done, he has discovered his own capacity to face the future.
Brent Bishop, the new kid in eleventh grade, has just committed social suicide at the party he counted on to make him cool. Drunk, enraged and humiliated, he decides real suicide is the only future he wants. When it's over, Brent just has bruises, but Lea, a loving, eighteen-year-old honor student, the driver who hit him, is killed. Her mother wants Brent to keep the girl's spirit alive by making four whirligigs with her face and her name and planting one in each corner of the country. With a bus pass, a book and a photograph, Brent takes on her task. As he spreads Lea's spirit, she gives him his own, and by the time he is done, he has discovered his own capacity to face the future.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Been uber busy!
Hey all. Been uber busy these last few weeks. Volunteering at a middle school and it has been an absolute learning experience. I love it. Also working extra hard at Publix and still going to school. Anyway long story short I missed my book of the week. I decided to spotlight the book I am currently reading, Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay.
Fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself.
Fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself.
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