Tina's comments
(member since Sep 18, 2008)
Tina's comments from the Study Buddies group.
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I'm Tina I'm 26 and currently pursuing a degree to teach high school history at Aurora University outside of Chicago. I moved into the dorms for the first time this year (my senior year) and promptly turned my room into a bit of a library. I have been reading for 23 years and will pretty much read anything placed in my hands.
I considered getting an e-reader or something similar, but I'm with Lexie, I just can't give up that new (or old) book feel/smell/experience. Digital books will never be quite the same. Besides who wants to curl up beside the fire with a cup of tea, some classical music, and an e-reader?
My dad used to read to my brother and I, just one chapter a night. That was my favorite part of the day, but I would get mad because I don't like not knowing what happens and my dad only read books he enjoyed so all seven Narnia books, the Lord of the Rings books (yup, my brother and I at 7 and 5 sat around listening to and loving The Lord of the Rings) and my dad had to hide the book because otherwise I would steal it and read it after my parents went to bed.
What's the fun in thinking about it if you're just going to cast the same ten actors as everyone else? It's much more fun to have tastes that are a bit eccentric!
Just on the question of uniforms, it would annoy me to have to wear one all the time with no adornment. But in Ixia I think two things make it okay. One is that they can adorn it, Yelena puts ribbons in her hair to go to the festival, I'm sure there are other individual touches one can add. More importantly, the citizens don't have to pay for the clothes. Having variety would make the costs go up and the government shouldn't have to pay for people's individuality. If the government is going to pay for your clothes, you take what they provide and are happy for it, provided it fits, and is weather and culturally appropriate.
She was ready to die at the beginning of Poison Study. She knew she had broken the law, she knew what the consequences would be and she knew that there was no reason for Valek to trust her. She has already gotten over being mad that he had "poisoned" her, so why be mad to find out that he hadn't poisoned her?
When my brother helped me move to the dorms we had to unload the stuff out of the car and then take it up one load at a time. Yeah, I made my brother take up the books first and left my TV and other electronics sitting unattended. I'm a dork!
Wow, sacrificing a comfortable bed for books. That is some dedication! Actually now that I think about it, a small bed would solve book space problems...Although at almost six feet I barely fit in my bed as it is. Oh well, I'm out of the dorms in a few months and then all my books can be in one place instead of spread out between home and dorm.
Well now I want to ditch my time spent preparing to be a teacher and be a librarian instead. You make being a librarian so much fun!
check out the movie at imdb in order to find the actor you want
i just re-read the study series this week, and it was still really hard for me to think about who i would cast, because no one is a perfect match and very few people come close.
Kristen I'm in Chicago too! We have to figure out how to get her out here, that's all.
Oh sad! Then again I spent my prom trying to convince my best friend to come out of the bathroom, ignoring my date. So I guess I would have enjoyed myself more if I had curled up in the corner with a book.
You guys have really good ideas about who should play these characters. Now go to storycasting.com and put them up so the books will get a high ranking and more people will read them. It's a free site, just register pick your book, pick your character, pick your actor and be sure to save your cast or they'll disappear.
I love Jane Yolen's take on Briar Rose. It's a good combination of a fairy tale and the Holocaust that I would probably include in some sort of reading project when I'm an history teacher (graduation in seven and a half months!)
I had to go to a formal wedding and so I had to buy one of those little tiny girl purses and I was annoyed that I was spending money on this purse that wouldn't let me fit the most important stuff (a book and the little notebook I carry around to write down new books that I want to read)
I love that parent! I wish all parents were willing to read along with their kids like that. I get so frustrated hearing parents tell their kids no, because I've seen kids decide that they don't want to read because they aren't allowed to read what they want, and then they don't ever read for pleasure.
How do you do something like that? Because I would kill to get her out here to Chicago for something similiar!
Everything is better with a good book in hand! I pick my purses based on whether or not I can fit a book into it :)
"Enegizer bunny of evil" I like it! I can't wait to use that little phrase in casual conversation. Perhaps about my least favorite teacher, who is constantly coming up with terrible assignments, and then changing the rubric eight times in the week before they're due.
Yelena hates Roze, she has since the beginning. Could she have reached the same realization while doing less damage to Ferde though? She has compared Roze rummaging through her mind to rape, might just rummaging through Ferde's mind in the same way have been enough to make her realize how like Roze she could have become?
Also, and I meant to say this before- Alethea, I love your idea about how to decide when kids can watch something like family guy. When you can explain it, you can watch it. Nice!
