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Weekly Geeks 2009-22: Catching Up on Reviews
2009 at 8am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
I’ve been having some of that hot weather = lazy Book Lady thing lately, so this week’s Weekly Geeks is the perfect opportunity to mix it up a bit. Here’s the topic:
This week, I’m going back to a classic Dewey topic–#12 to be exact. I chose this for several reasons–one, it’s one of my favorite weekly geeks topics–but more importantly I saw it would work well with two very important bloggy events going on this week.
1. In your blog, list any books you’ve read but haven’t reviewed yet. If you’re all caught up on reviews, maybe you could try this with whatever book(s) you hope to finish this week. (Be sure to leave a link to this post either in the comments of this post, or in the Mister Linky below.)
2. Ask your readers to ask you questions about any of the books they want. In your comments, not in their blogs. (Most likely, people who will ask you questions will be people who have read one of the books or know something about it because they want to read it.)
3. Later, take whichever questions you like from your comments and use them in a post about each book. Link to each blogger next to that blogger’s question(s).
4. Visit other Weekly Geeks and ask them some questions!
What are these other bloggy events? One is the June Mini-Challenge for Dewey’s Reading Challenge. Kailana is asking folks to list the books they’ve completed (but not reviewed) for either the Dewey Reading Challenge or Carl’s Once Upon A Time III challenge. Her due date is Saturday, June 20th. All the details are on the post about the challenge. The second is Natasha’s
Bloggiesta. On June 19th and 20th, Natasha is encouraging bloggers to catch up on their blogs. Included in this is reviewing!
I’m pretty caught up right now, so I only have one finished book that I haven’t reviewed, but it’s one that I really want to have some conversation about.
Description from the publisher:
Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third baseman for the New York Giants. But Joey’s chosen champion doesn’t exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an overactive imagination. Then again, this strange, needy kid might be exactly what Banks needs.
This book is written as a series of letters between Joey and Charlie, and it also includes Joey’s “Top Secret” telegrams to his best friend, communications from Joey’s teachers, parents, and rabbi, and notes from his sessions with a therapist he sees when he lands in Juvenile Hall for peeing in the reservoir. It’s a hilarious, creative, perfect summer read, and I can’t wait to talk about it with you.
Next up is this book, which I’m almost finished with. Click on the cover for details.
Then I’ll be reading this:
So go ahead, please ask me some questions about these, and I’ll use them later to create my reviews. And if you’re participating in this week’s Weekly Geeks, feel free to leave a link to your post here, and I’ll come ask you a question in return.
Happens Every Day has an intriguing cover and it also sounds like the perfect, easy beach read from reading the blurp. Do you agree, or is it a heavier read, one should read anywhere else but the beach?
Which is your favorite book and why? My post is here.
How well does the ‘letter’ narrative suit the story in Last Days of Summer?
Weekly Geeks: My Review Catch-up List
Was Charlie Banks a real person? Or is he based on an athlete? What makes the book so funny?
Have you read many books on teenagers and body-image, like, say, Cut? Prozac Nation? Girl Interrupted? How does Purge compare with them?
How real is Happens Every Day? Does it suffer from fictional hyperbolism? Is the writer annoyingly self-indulgent? Or, is it a well-balanced read, which ends up in you sympathizing with the author?
I read Last Days of Summer a few years ago. Unfortunately, I don’t remember much about it. What drew you to this particular book?
What did you enjoy the most of Last Days of Summer?
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