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30
A Flock of Readers for THE SPARROW: Wrap-Up Posts
2010 at 7am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
Today marks the end of the readalong of Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow that I’m co-hosting with Florinda and Heather J.
As the wrapper-upper of the event, I’m here to ask you to post your reviews, discussions, thoughts, rants, and philosophical musings within the next few days. Just come back and link to your final discussion in the comments of this post, and I”ll update as we go along.
If you’re looking for something to get your writing going, Heather posted excellent discussion questions a few weeks ago, and they would provide a good starting place. But it’s up to you—-follow your usual review style, pull your favorite quotes, right a big ol’ spoilerific discussion, whatever makes you happy. If you’ve also read MDR’s follow-up Children of God, I’d personally love to hear about your reaction to it as well.
I’ll post my response later today or tomorrow (it’s one of those weeks where life is interfering with my blogging plans) and look forward to reading your wrap-ups.
Thanks for joining us in this readalong of The Sparrow!
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Here’s my review: http://age30books.blogspot.com/2010/03/sparrow-and-link-to-rebeccas-recap.html
This read-a-long was a great experience!
I’m so glad to have read this again – and in such fine company! I’ll check out everyone’s reviews later today, but here’s miine:
http://www.3rsblog.com/2010/03/book-talk-sparrow-by-mary-doria-russell.html
Special thanks – again – to you and Heather for co-hosting this Read-along with me, Rebecca!
Here are my thoughts:
http://sueysbooks.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-sparrow-by-mary-doria-russell.html
Let’s cast the movie! I read years ago that Antonio Banderas had bought the rights, but since he hasn’t done anything with them, I’m tapping Johnny Depp for Emilio. Anne: Helen Mirren. George: Jeff Bridges. Jimmy: John Krasinski (can you possibly argue with this? He was born for it.). Sofia: I haven’t come up with the perfect tiny smart beautiful woman yet but I’m looking forward to your suggestions. DW: Randy Quaid. The other two Jesuits don’t really matter. What do you think?
Okay, finally posted my review! Here it is:
http://heatherlo.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-sparrow-by-mary-doria-russell/
Thanks again, Rebecca, Florinda, and Heather, for hosting this, I’m so thrilled to have read The Sparrow again. And now I’m sorta itching to reread Children of God too…