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Chopsticks
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Jessica Anthony, Rodrigo Corral
MsKurf
, February 19, 2012
This novel's story is told entirely through photographs, which hold the promise of secrets that will unlock the story at second glance. They demand to be returned to: scoured and compared and reveled in as you follow the story and then retrace your steps when the mysterious ending is revealed. At the start, you learn that piano prodigy Gloria "Glory" Fleming has gone missing. Then, you are taken back to the beginning and shown in detail the 18 months prior to her disappearance. Chopsticks is the story of young love. It's the story of a piano prodigy. It's the story of desperation, madness, and a family wound tightly by tragedy, like a piece of piano wire. When you finish this gorgeous, spare novel, you will flip back through it, hunting for clues about the meaning of the ending. To find these clues, you will scour the photos that fill its 300+ pages. Photos of articles with phrases underlined in red, photos of pencil drawings, wine bottles, love notes, and even photos of photos. It is a story unlike any you have ever seen. It will engage your mind and your eye; your sense of mystery and your sense of aesthetics. However, it left my emotions relatively untouched - there is a distance and a coldness that comes when you place the story outside its characters. You, the reader, are an observer. You are flipping through a family album that depicts mystery and tragedy. You are a detective; you are solving a puzzle. You are not, however, a friend and sympathetic listener to the lonely heroine. You cannot comfort her, and your are not invited into her heart or her thoughts. The closest you come to her is by viewing handwritten notes and hand-drawn art, the utterances of a soul. Read it for its beauty and its puzzle, but do not seek a friend in its pages.
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Book Whisperer Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
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Miller, Donalyn
MsKurf
, January 01, 2012
Do you want your students or your child to love to read? Donalyn Miller is a 6th grade teacher who has an incredible track record of awakening a love for reading within her students. She sets a high bar (read 40 books, from these genres, over the course of the year) and create a classroom culture that is all about reading. Students who hated English Language Arts or identified as "non-reader" and read three or zero books independently last year devour 40+ books in her classroom. In /The Book Whisperer/, Miller clearly & practically lays out what she does as well as sharing how her students respond. She writes with passion and compassion, and she will inspire you to awaken your own inner reader and find your own community of readers. If you're a teacher, she may challenge you to rethink some of the "standard" practices you use because you've never seen it done any other way. I recommend this book for every language arts teacher and for desperate parents alike. It made me laugh, cry, and feel more prepared to teach.
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