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	08/18 Luann is currently reading: Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two (Paperback) by Joseph Bruchac bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	07/24 Luann is currently reading: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles (Paperback) by Padraic Colum, Willy Pogany (Illustrator) bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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August 19

New comment on Luann's review of Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague (Book 3)

Luann wrote: "Did you know there is a new Dick Francis coming out next week? He co-wrote it with his son, Felix. ...more "

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August 18

New comment on Carter's review of Vunce Upon a Time

Luann wrote: "Vunce vasn't enough, eh? :)

Maybe you could encourage the author by writing your review in funny ...more "

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Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague (Book 3)
by Brandon Mull
bookshelves: 2008, childrens, fantasy

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read in August, 2008

Luann said: "This is a book I will like more in the future as I think back on it than I do right now having just finished it. The storyline was fine, but the execution of it fell flat for me. I was never completely drawn into the story until about the last hund...more "

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New comment on Sarah Montambo's review of The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide

Luann wrote: "The one I learned in school is:
Kings Play Chess On Fine Grained Sand "

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August 17

New comment on rivka's review of Uglies (Uglies, Book 1)

Luann wrote: "Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and then Extras. I thought the whole series was pretty even, actually. ...more "

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August 16

Luann added Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River to the book list What book got you hooked?
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August 13

Luann gave

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The Battle for Skandia (Ranger's Apprentice, Book 4)
by John Flanagan
bookshelves: 2008, fantasy, young-adult

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read in August, 2008

Luann said: "I am LOVING this series! This fourth book was GREAT! I wasn't sure how much I would like it, since the book description made it clear that Will and Evanlyn weren't going to get home right away, but Flanagan made their long stay in Skandia completely...more "

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August 11

New comment on Katie Jane's review of The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

Luann wrote: "This is one of my "unfinished" books. I just wasn't enjoying it and about half way through...more "

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August 10

Luann gave

to:
Wyrd Sisters: Starring Three Witches, Also Kings, Daggers, Crowns (Hardcover)
by Terry Pratchett
bookshelves: 2008, fantasy

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read in August, 2008

Luann said: "This book was the perfect Terry Pratchett - a fun, funny, light fantasy. Yet amidst the humor, the word play, and the quirky characters, he always manages to say something meaningful about huge things like life and death.

One note - make sure you...more "

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August 07

Luann gave

to:
Elijah Of Buxton (Hardcover)
by Christopher Paul Curtis
bookshelves: 2008, childrens, historical-fiction, newbery-honor

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read in August, 2008

Luann said: "I had a hard time deciding what to rate this book. It isn't very action-packed or exciting. In fact, the events from the book description don't take place until the last 100 pages of the story. For the first 240 pages I felt like I was waiting for...more I had a hard time deciding what to rate this book. It isn't very action-packed or exciting. In fact, the events from the book description don't take place until the last 100 pages of the story. For the first 240 pages I felt like I was waiting for the real story to begin.

Also, the heavy use of dialect makes the reading a bit tedious. I hope I never have to read "gunn" used for "going to" or even "gonna" again!

On the other hand, I was fascinated with the setting. I learned a lot I hadn't known before about the settlement of runaway slaves called Buxton in Canada.

I also really liked the characters, especially Elijah and his wonderful sense of humor. He makes a great narrator. A favorite "Elijah" quote that made me chuckle: "All the growned folks that hadn't never learnt to read nor write whilst they were 'slaved in America had to take lessons at the school house at night. Between cooking and cleaning and gardening and sewing and knitting and working the fields at harvesttime and helping out at the chopping bees and the raising bees and tending to her sheep and shearing 'em and gathering wool and carding it and spinning it, Ma had been lazy and was slacking off on her school lessons and they waren't sticking particular good."

In fact, I found myself marking the place of several great quotes:

Wisdom from Elijah's neighbor: "Mr. Leroy kept chomping and said, 'Fish eating's like anything else in life, Elijah. If you go at it 'specting something bad to happen, all you gunn do is draw that bad thing to you. You caint be timid 'bout nothing you do, you got to go at it like you 'specting good things to come out of it. If I's to worry 'bout bones choking me, it'd happen every time I et fish. Ain't nothing further from my mind.' Fish bones snapped in his mouth like dry twigs."

Wisdom from Elijah's Ma when comforting a neighbor who just found out that her husband had died: "Well, the body don't never endure, do it? But I hopes . . . naw, I knows that something inside all of us be so strong it caint be stopped. It fly on forever."

Wisdom from Elijah's Pa when they found out Mr. Leroy was conned out of a huge sum of money that was meant to buy his family out of slavery: "Let this here be a lesson to you. You caint let your wantings blind you to what's the truth. You always got to look at things the way they is, not the way you wish 'em to be."

I can see why Elijah of Buxton won so many awards, and I'm definitely not sorry I read it! But because of the issues mentioned above, I really can't give it more than three stars....less "

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Luann's favorite quotes

"Never judge a book by its movie."
— J.W. Eagan

tags: books, humor, movies

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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. "
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

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"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

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27 days ago, 06:56AM

I think it's awesome that we have shelves for all the award-winning books we're read: Newbery, Caldecott, Printz. Great minds think alike.

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