Jessica’s Comments (group member since Aug 22, 2010)

Jessica’s comments from the Daily Show / Colbert Report / Nightly Show / The Opposition group.

Discussion for A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.

I listened to this as an audio book, and I really think this was the type of story that was made for that medium. Beah comes from a culture that really values storytelling, and his words come alive when read aloud. His accent is less of a difficulty than I would have expected, as Sierra Leone is not place I'd had much exposure to at all. Add in the fact that Beah is my age, and it makes for a powerful tale. There has been some controversy over whether everything in the book happened exactly as written, but his work to draw attention to the plight of child soldiers is commendable.

Yay, thanks Linda! I'm going to look over my TBR pile and add ones that are missing from the main bookshelf as I find them.

Yeah, Tiffany, that probably would be less confusing overall.

My idea: we have the general bookshelves like we do, and then make monthly discussion posts, where the first post lists and links all the books on the show that month.

i.e. TDS, November 2010 or CR, November 2010. Then a search of the group would pull up the appropriate discussion post for that particular book. Less cluttery than a post for each book, but still some semblance of timeline organization.

Tiffany wrote: "I can help do the history research, too. I'm currently unemployed, and the only thing I really do all day is read and plan my Christmas shopping :)"
Ha! Same here. I've gotten an awful lot of reading done this year. Question: do we want to start separate threads for the different books for discussion or combine them all in just a few threads? I just started reading Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, which was featured on CR fairly recently and wanted to post about it.

I think that might be the default for groups? If you go to this group's bookshelf page, it says "Only moderators of this group can add books." in the upper left hand corner.

I'm trying to start a group for books from Rachel Maddow's show, and I set it up so all members can add books, in case I'm busy for a while or miss a book or two. I sent a private note to Dinh asking if the settings can be changed, hopefully I'll get a response soon.

Linda wrote: "Is anyone maintaing this list?"

I don't believe so. Is there a way to ask the Goodreads people to add a new moderator or two if a group has been abandoned? I'd be happy to add the shows' books, as I usually watch with Goodreads and my local library page open to note and request many of the books featured.