Here's a prime example of a bit that I wrote in November of 2010:
"Books like Moon Over Manifest are difficult to summarize since they are woven together so masterfully. Set in Manifest Kansas, Abilene Tucker comes to town by herself on the train because her Daddy Gideon has a job working for the railroad in Iowa, and he has declared that it’s not fit living for a 12 year-old-girl. Lots of folks who were in Manifest when Gideon was coming up still live there, and Abilene is to live with Shady…part-time preacher/ part-time saloon owner. But old habits die hard, and instead of waiting for the train to pull into the station like the rest of the paying customers, she takes a leap because folks know that “it’s best to get a look at a place before it gets a look at you”. (p. 3)
Abilene sees some sights on her walk into town, but they don’t much resemble the vibrant and bustling town that her Daddy recently told her stories about..."
I don't know what stopped me from finishing. Perhaps it was a hungry daughter, or some curriculum tweaking. Maybe I had to pick somebody up from a play-date or go grocery shopping.
What are some titles that you ended up not blogging that came back to haunt you?
2 comments:
My worst ones aren't the book reviews. It's the political posts. Because if they don't go up the week the topic is timely, no one cares. I still have some great political rants I can't bring myself to throw away, even though they will never be relevant again.
There are many great books that I never got around to blogging about, and later I wished I did. They are usually the ones I read in the summer, at the beginning of school, or during a holiday break, because I'm more focused on simply enjoying the book than reviewing it.
I read Moon Over Manifest after it won the Newbery last January. I hadn't heard of it before, but when I shared with my students the winner, one student of mine said she had received a signed copy for Christmas, so she leant it to me.
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