Lots of feedback on yesterday's poem. My dad wrote that he immediately went all around the house emptying out all the garbages and got it to the curb. But then, my dad has a 'garbage thing'.
Kristen B. wrote to say she had a 3rd grade teacher that liked to read Silverstein to them right after lunch. The teacher particularly liked to read gross passages to the kids. Another of her favorites was Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls by William Rossa Cole. This must be hard to find now. It appears to be a collectible.
I don't remember too much about what my teachers read to us when I was in grade school. I do remember books like The Boxcar Children and all the books by Beverly Cleary. I also remember sitting and reading my own book while the teacher read to the class. I was one of those kids that was always reading, so a lot of the time when the teacher would read to us, I'd have already read the book. And even then I hated repeats.
Over the weekend I started and finished Jarhead by Anthony Swofford. It's a really-life look into the life of a marine in combat. Swofford was in the first gulf war and he was a sniper. The book is full of expletives, and the typical young, single marine's preoccupation with sex. Of course, Swofford was 17 when he joined up.
The book is not victorious at all. It's depressing and seems to send the message of "this is why war veterans are so screwed up...can you blame them?" Swofford hated the marines, hated the war, loved shooting the gun. His writing style is marine-speak with a bit of poetry-like material thrown in.
I'm reading King of Torts (John Grisham) right now and then I'm going to make another pass at The Bone Vault (Linda Fairstein) before I turn it in on August 4. I tried Bone Vault once and couldn't get started. But it's been on the bestseller list all summer, so it seems like I should at least try.
I actually BOUGHT and PAID FOR a book! I had to have 1421 in my possession. I think I might have to start buying a few really special books. Hmm...guess I'll have to have a nice bookcase to put them in.
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