Archive for May, 2011
S4L Book Club – The Girls
For the final discussion of The Girls: A Novel by Lori Lansens, I thought I’d share some Lines I Love and a few musings. From Rose: But the song of my past has been so altered–not the sequence of notes, exactly, but the pitch–that I find I can’t go on writing about my past without [...]
S4L Book Club – The Girls
Here are some scattered thoughts regarding The Girls. As a nurse I think I share a trait common to many nurses: avid curiosity regarding curiosities of the human body. When there’s something abnormal going on, I want to see it! From my perspective, it’s not a morbid curiosity; rather, it’s an interest in seeing and [...]
S4L Book Club – The Girls
Lines We Love (from Shelly) Jen was talking about some of the Lines I Love in a recent comment about The Girls. Here they are: When I groaned about it [having to go to summer school] to Aunt Lovey, she’d said, “Ruby’s going to summer school for the math, but you’ll be learning a valuable [...]
Learn to Embroider Bookmarks with Mare
Our friend, Mare, stitched and donated 124 bookmarks this year. The lion’s share went to a school in northern NJ, and the rest went to her local library. Wow is right! But wait . . . there’s more! Mare met with her local librarian and did a bookmark demo for her, suggesting it be part [...]
S4L Book Club – The Girls
How’s everyone coming with The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
S4L Book Club – The Girls
One of the distinct personality traits that I saw in The Girls was that Rose was the more dominant of the sisters. To me it seemed that she was the more mature of the two, taking charge in most situations. Rose literally carried Ruby around. Did you have the same impression? The fact that I [...]
Redwood Stitchers Deliver 112 Embroidered Bookmarks
A hand-stitched bookmark donation! A huge congratulations and thank you to the Redwood Stitchers chapter of The Embroiderers’ Guild of America in Santa Rosa, CA! Fourteen members stitched and delivered 112 embroidered bookmarks in the name of Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy to the Kawana Elementary School in Santa Rosa, CA, a local Christian [...]
S4L Book Club – The Girls
From The Readers’ Guide to The Girls: “Do you find yourself forgetting that Rose and Ruby were joined at the head? In what way is the bond of sisterhood more important than their physical link?” Yes, I frequently forgot! Even though in my mind’s eye I always saw them as conjoined, and I could picture [...]
S4L Book Club – The Girls
Shelly is our discussion leader this month, and I’ll be butting in from time to time as usual. It’s what I do. This from Shell: What made you interested in reading The Girls by Lori Lansens? Was it merely the fact that it was the chosen book for S4L Book Club, or did something else [...]
S4L Book Club–The Girls
Woo-hoo! Who’s ready to discuss The Girls? I loved this book: a novel posing as an autobiography of a conjoined twin. That’s a hook that grabs me. A conjoined twin is an unusual character, a fascinating and curious character. I’ve never known, or even seen in person, conjoined twins. I immediately want to know more. [...]
, by Elizabeth Strout.
by Kathryn Stockett
