Sad Day

Today is a sorrowful day.  It is the day I have to announce the end of the Mother/Daughter Book Clubs.  I've had a lot of fun with the club and I'm sad to see it go, but due to lack of interest and some other concerns, it will be ending. 

Thank you to everyone who participated, and made this a great experience.  I loved getting to know both the moms and the girls and I hope you will visit me at the Washington Branch.

There is a ray of sunshine, though.  There is the possibility of the club starting again at a later date. I'll let you know if that happens. 

Thanks again for everything.

Gloria

Attention!

We have a meeting time!  The meeting will be at 5:00 pm August 22 at the Washington Branch.  The address for that branch is 220 North 300 East, Washington, Utah.  I know this is kind of short notice, but I hope you will be able to make it.  Let me know if you have any questions. 

Gloria

Changes!

I just looked at the blog and realized how long it's been since I've posted anything.  I really hope you will forgive me for not keeping this blog as current as usual.  With Summer Reading, the flood and *surprise*  my new promotion to Children's Librarian at the Washington City Branch (this just happened today) it's been pretty crazy lately. 

This is to let you know the Mother Daughter Book Club will be moving with me to the Washington City Library.  We will also have to start a little earlier because the Washington Branch closes earlier than the St. George Branch.  I will let you know exactly what time when I am able to finalize some things.  Plan for about 5:00 or 6:00 starting time.  We will discuss a more permanent meeting time when we see each other again, so ask any of your interested friends what time they'd like to meet!

We had to have our last meeting in the children's area because of the flooding downstairs, but We made it work.  For our craft we made mini bubble magnets.  We even ran out of glue, we made so many. :) 

Our next meeting will be on August 22 and don't forget it will be at the Washington Branch.  The book is the first book in the Sister's Grimm Series, The Fairy-Tale Detectives.

I'll see you at the Washington Branch!

Gloria

Dream Catchers

I had one of the Mom's email me pictures of the finished dream catchers they made.  They turned out great so I thought I would share them with you.  Thanks for the pictures Diane!

 

Update

I know it's been a while.  I haven't been able to keep up with the blog like usual because of the summer reading program.  It's been taking a lot of time.  Hopefully I will be able to keep up a bit better with the blog from now on.

I did want to quickly post a little bit about the meeting we had on Wednesday.  We made dream catchers for the craft.  The book centered on dreams so much, I thought it would be fun.  They were made out of plastic cup rims (18 oz), string, and yarn then decorated with beads and feathers.  We didn't have time to finish them, so I wasn't able to get any pictures like I wanted to, but the ones the girls were making were turning out really well.  We got so involved with the craft that we didn't have time to discuss the book very much.

The next book for the book club is The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain.  It's about three children who each have one wish.  They can wish for anything they want.  What would you wish for?

Get Talking: A Wrinkle In Time

A little overdue, but here are a few questions to get you talking about A Wrinkle In Time.

A Wrinkle In Time is very much a novel about good vs. evil. Who in the book represents good? Who represents evil?

At the beginning of the book, Meg isn't happy with who she is.  Have you ever felt like that?  Have you ever wanted to be just like everyone else?

What makes Charles Wallace so extraordinary. How do these traits both hurt and help him on Camazotz?

If you had the opportunity to time travel, would you? If you could chose the time, what time period would you travel to? The past? The future?

Why does the school principal, Mr. Jenkins, want Meg to accept that her father is never coming home? Should Meg believe him? Why? Why not?

How is Calvin’s home life different from Meg’s? How is his school life different from Meg’s?

How would you react if you were taken on a surprise journey to another planet?

Who are some of the famous people mentioned as fighting the Dark Thing? What do they all have in common?

Charles Wallace says that they can’t make decisions based on fear. Do you agree?

What does Meg have that IT doesn’t have? Is this something she can use in other situations? If so, how?

Book Blurb: A Wrinkle In Time

"It was a dark and stormy night." 
Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. She claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a “tesseract,” which, if you didn’t know, is a wrinkle in time.
Meg’s father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?


About the Author

Madeleine was born on November 29th, 1918, and spent her formative years in New York City. Instead of her school work, she found that she would much rather be writing stories, poems and journals for herself, which was reflected in her grades (not the best). However, she was not discouraged.
At age 12, she moved to the French Alps with her parents and went to an English boarding school where, thankfully, her passion for writing continued to grow. She flourished during her high school years back in the United States at Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, vacationing with her mother in a rambling old beach cottage on a beautiful stretch of Florida Beach.
She went to Smith College and studied English with some wonderful teachers as she read the classics and continued her own creative writing. She graduated with honors and moved into a Greenwich Village apartment in New York. She worked in the theater, where Equity union pay and a flexible schedule afforded her the time to write! She published her first two novels during these years—A Small Rain and Ilsa—before meeting Hugh Franklin, her future husband, when she was an understudy in Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. They married during The Joyous Season.

She had a baby girl and kept on writing, eventually moving to Connecticut to raise the family away from the city in a small dairy farm village with more cows than people. They bought a dead general store, and brought it to life for 9 years. They moved back to the city with three children, and Hugh revitalized his professional acting career.
As the years passed and the children grew, Madeleine continued to write and Hugh to act, and they to enjoy each other and life. Madeleine began her association with the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, where she was  the librarian and maintained an office for more than thirty years. After Hugh’s death in 1986, it was her writing and lecturing that kept her going. She lived through the 20th century and into the 21st and wrote over 60 books. She enjoyed being with her friends, her children, her grandchildren, and her great grandchildren.

Taken from http://www.madeleinelengle.com/