Philip’s Comments (group member since Dec 15, 2009)

Philip’s comments from the Team Reading group.

Harry Potter, of course...

Sabriel/Lireal/Abhorson.

Narnia.

OK, so what'd you think? Any thoughts on good discussion questions?

I have a couple:

Gally - was he good or bad? I mean, he saw Thomas during the changing and hated him, tried to kill him, but ultimately he sacrificed himself so Thomas's plan could be carried out.

How about that ending? It looks as if the next book will be very different from this one. Any thoughts?

What do you think the Grievers were? What do you think they represented?

Anybody else have anything to add?

i'm moving over to the spoilers discussion thread for this book... i'll spoil, so don't go there unless you've read the book.

i don't know... number the stars is a quick read. i think it's a gamble worth taking. it may motivate you to read number the stars even faster too.

yeah. most of my posts show up on there too. i don't know if i put it on my computer on purpose or if it did it by itself. it's kindof nice though.

So, I thought this was a pretty good book, huh? I really liked the epilogue - you know, to see what all was true and what was made up.

I was expecting it to be even more sad than it was. Keep in mind that this is the spoiler thread, so if you didn't read the book, stay away from the rest of this topic....

I was wondering if you all thought she had to add that part about Peter being killed to add a saddness to it... I mean, that boy was her inspiration for writing the book and he died in real life, but it felt a little forced to me. The way that people talked about the book, I thought it'd be a little more tragic. (In the Greek sense...)

I know, seriously... Auden's dad drove me nuts in those parts.

Liz would never have let that fly. So I guess part of it's on Heidi - she needs to ask for help, but I'm not saying that to excuse Auden's dad. There is no excuse. He's just plain selfish.

Nope. I only started the discussion thread. I won't poke my head back in here until I do start it.

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Have at it.

The winners are:

Marley and Me

The Maze Runner

Number the Stars

(and still) Along for the Ride

We all hope you're all planning on reading a couple of these in the next week or so.

IF YOU'RE HOPING TO READ Number the Stars stop in and see me tomorrow. I received several copies at the end of the day. I'm going to try to read that one over the weekend. Wish me luck.

hmmm... i'm never logged off?

that's cool. i played in 7th grade... i think i had like 8 points the whole year... and when i say "played" of course i mean i sat the bench most of the time.

but i liked being on the team.

bummer.

of course. it's worth a shot, right?

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