AbielleRose
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Your book shelves are awesome, Kylie! I love your color organization plotting
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With how many Beatles fans there are on the form I thought it would be fun if we had a thread where we could talk about our favorite songs, books and trinkets. Recently I've been doing some generous adding on to my collection which so far includes: 2 T-shirts (a John Lennon 'Imagine...peace' and a black and white Abbey Road), a Yellow Submarine coffee mug, 2 books (The Complete Beatles Chronicle and John Lennon: The Life), and 10 various Beatles guitar picks. It's hard to pick just one song that is my ultimate favorite, but if I had to it would be Blackbird with All You Need is Love coming in at as close second. Because of my name being Abby I adore Abbey Road merchandise and currently have the background on my computer set to the famous picture of them on Abbey Road. How about you all? Anyone care to share their collections or stories? Has anyone been lucky enough to visit Liverpool or even see one of them (or all of them) in concert?
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That looks lovely, Univerze. What a wonderful way to remember your dad by.
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Your Book Activity Today - Thread 11
AbielleRose replied to Janet's topic in General Book Discussions
Read a little bit of Burned this morning, probably read some more later this afternoon. -
Cold pepperoni pizza
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Hello and welcome to BCF
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:party:Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday my dear CW, happy birthday to you!
Hope you have a wonderful day! Don't party too hard
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My literary comfort food is and always will be Harry Potter. Its just one of those worlds that is so easy to get lost in and no matter how many times I reread the books they never seem to get old.
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That's a very good sign
Its really interesting to see how stories seem to come from out of nowhere and take us on such an incredible journey. I love the thought that as writers we like to think that we're in charge, but we're not. We're simply a tool in which the story is given life through. Poetry is such a powerful form of writing. It never fails to amaze me how so much emotion can be poured into something as small as a haiku.
You're welcome over whenever you wish!
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I'm so glad to hear that things are getting better for you
Its kind of amazing after you get past certian situations that challenge you and are able to look back and see how far you've come, isn't it? Of course you can pry! I am currently working on a YA adventure/romance fantasy novel set in a world that I've been creating from scratch. Its still in a rather raw state right now as I'm only on Chapter 4 but I'm hoping to finish writing sometime within the next couple of months so that I can work more on revising and editing into something submitable to a publisher. The story is one that is very unique, IMO. There is nothing out there right now that it can really be compared to as I'm creating a lot of species of magical creatures and blending several genres. I've been posting updates about it on my Abby's Thoughts thread if you'd like to take a gander sometime
How about you? Do you do any writing?
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Thank you. I hope it does soon. You're such a lovely friend. How are you doing these days? -
Controversial Topics in YA Literature
AbielleRose replied to AbielleRose's topic in General Book Discussions
As a teen I was very shocked. I never got a sex talk and had to figure out all sorts of girly stuff on my own, that was the first time I had ever been exposed to sex in a book, let alone something of that nature. For me it raised a lot of questions that I felt unable to find answer for because my mom refused to talk about sex. That being said, Night remains one of the most powerful books I've ever read and I do plan to have my own children read it someday if it isn't part of their school reading lists. Then you have books like The Bermudez Triangle which is about 3 female friends and two of them fall in love with each other. Back when I was starting high school 10 years ago (oh gosh...feeling old now!) Being 'out' wasn't something people made known. For those few who were in my school, they really didn't have anywhere to turn or any sort of refrence (I know that's a terrible word, but I can't think of the right way to put it right now). Books like that may be good for those who are curious and want to sort of experience a world with feelings like that, if that makes any sense. People shouldn't fear these topics as they do, especially not in today's ever progressing world. Books are probably the best way to expose kids to those topics because it doesn't just list a description like you would find in the dictionary, it puts the topic in a story so that there is an example and something for the individual to remember rather than just facts and figures. -
Controversial Topics in YA Literature
AbielleRose replied to AbielleRose's topic in General Book Discussions
Many of the most well known and respected books today have been banned some point throughout history. One of the books that affected me most as a teen was Night by Elie Wiesel. We did a very intense unit on WWII when I was 14 years old and my mom was very shocked and appalled that they were teaching us about it at such a young age. Though the book itself wasn't very controversial, there was one part in it that my mom was particularly upset about, I agree with both of you, teens should be exposed to topics like that because, IMO, its a very influential time in their lives. They are starting to choose what they want to believe in and what they consider to be right and wrong. If they are able to read about topics from a non bias perspective it is a good thing because, again IMO, it helps form who they are chosing to become. -
I was just curious to hear your thoughts on whether certian topics in young adult fiction should be avoided, such as abortion, evolution, gay/lesbian, etc. An author I follow on Twitter, Maureen Johnson http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/index1.html has had quite a lot of negative feedback with a YA book she wrote called The Bermudez Triangle because it involves a teen lesbian romance. The book has been taken out of several libraries and there have been many protests by parents regarding the subject matter of the book. Also, in reading about Johnson's particular case it reminded me of when J.K. Rowling made public the fact that Dumbledore was gay and the shock and negativity that some people reacted with regarding that particular case. Do you think there is a certian age where teens should be allowed to access books with sensitive/ controversial topics such as these?
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Hello and welcome!
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For the non alcoholic I'm a coffee girl all the way. Black, extra shots of espresso or a super sweet white chocolat mocha, I'll take it iced, hot, basically any way you can make it. For the alcohol I prefer fruity coctails, usually a strawberry margarita or cosmopolitan.
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A ham sandwich and some tomato juice.
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Do it! You know you want to. I'm having left over grape slushie from last night.
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That's great you have a week off
Hope you enjoy it! Oh believe me, I understand life comtenplation all too well these days as I have recently been on the verge of a few major metaphorical forks in the road. I can go from being excited about the potential of change to questioning if the right decisions are being made in a matter of mere seconds. Have you anything planned for your week, my lovely friend?
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Hey Mac, haven't seen you around too much lately so I thought I'd drop a note to say hullo! Hope you're doing well and not getting into too much trouble.
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*Is ashamaed* I went to the bookstore tonight to pick up one book and came home with four. I think 'hill' TBR has officially become MOUNT 'TBR' as I seem to be buying way more books than I've been reading. I would have walked out of there with five books but there was a massive June bug on the copy of The Complete Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson I wanted. Maybe nature was trying to intervene? That being said I am a very happy Abby with what I ended up buying: Dear John by Nicholas Sparks If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle John Lennon: The Life by Phillip Norman Of all of those the one I'm most anxious to read is If I Should Die Before I Wake. They synopsis is: Can an alienated, Jew-hating, Neo-Nazi teenager have lived a previous life as a Polish Jewish girl in the Lodz ghetto during the Holocaust? Can a motorcycle accident which lands her comatose in a Jewish hospital be the vehicle for her tumbling through time repeatedly to relive that life while fighting for this one? Can her horrendous experiences of surviving but losing everything, including her family, and finally giving up her last food to another girl shake her out of the self-destructive life she has fashioned for herself here in the today world? This is an intriguing and touching story that weaves the terrible drama of the Nazis' destruction of an entire population together with the age-old belief in reincarnation and past lives. All the reviews I've read of it so far have high praise for the novel so I'm really looking forward to starting it sometime after finishing Burned and The Polysyllabic Spree.
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Hello and welcome to BCF, Will
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Was gonna order pizza but I feel like cooking so instead I'm making lemon pepper cod, roasted buttered zucchini, tomatoes, sweet corn and creamy red mashed potatoes.
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Hello and welcome!
Happy birthday Janet! Hope you have a great day!