12-22-2008, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally Posted by JerzeeGirl
Team Writer's Block is thrilled to select a book from the Children's Lit category that is timeless, sentimental and very moving - Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.
From Wiki (as they said it better than me):
The story begins while a son has just been born. The story then continues through the life of the boy until he is a grown man. The mother continues to rock her son to sleep singing "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be." Later, the role is reversed and he holds his elderly mother as she is dying and says "I'll love you forever I'll like you for always as long as I'm living my mommy you'll be." At the very end of the story, he is the father of a little girl, rocking her to sleep the same song that his mother used to sing to him.
I'm tearing up as I write this and about to call home - this is a doozy of a book but possibly one of the most meaningful 32 pages ever written that a parent & child can share.
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my two year old can quote every page of that book. And anyone who says they don't get emotional reading it is a robot.
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12-22-2008, 10:19 AM
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#422
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Hey guys, Burninator is in Hawaii for the next 2-odd weeks, and won't be making any picks until he gets back, so you can AK him until then. I think he made a post about this in the workshop thread as well.
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12-22-2008, 11:08 AM
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#423
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by RatherDashing
Hey guys, Burninator is in Hawaii for the next 2-odd weeks, and won't be making any picks until he gets back, so you can AK him until then. I think he made a post about this in the workshop thread as well.
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Yeah, except he didn't mention Hawaii, because he knew that if he did, we'd all be bitter and would fill up his remaining roster with crap instead. But now that the cat's out of the bag, Danielle Steele for Burninator!
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12-22-2008, 11:36 AM
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#424
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Originally Posted by octothorp
Yeah, except he didn't mention Hawaii, because he knew that if he did, we'd all be bitter and would fill up his remaining roster with crap instead. But now that the cat's out of the bag, Danielle Steele for Burninator!
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Done.
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12-22-2008, 11:46 AM
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#425
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Done.
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Haha, well done.
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12-22-2008, 12:05 PM
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#426
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I am glad my night with troutman is in "food and drink" not "fanstasy" like fotze's.
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12-22-2008, 12:29 PM
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#427
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by Aeneas
I am glad my night with troutman is in "food and drink" not "fanstasy" like fotze's.
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Interesting. One is fiction, the other....... 
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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12-22-2008, 12:44 PM
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#428
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In Canadian Literature, The Mustardeers select Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden. This quite frankly is one of the most moving books that I have ever read, really as emotional an experience that one can have reading a book.
It is a book centered around war, that involves so much more than a war, it is a pretty gripping look at aboriginal culture and history, the endurance of the human spirit and the pain of man at the same time. I highly recommend this book not only for those interested in World War I, but for those who are interested in the inner battles of men.
Last edited by Mean Mr. Mustard; 12-22-2008 at 04:49 PM.
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12-22-2008, 01:20 PM
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#429
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Interesting. One is fiction, the other....... |
...the other is just food and drink!
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12-22-2008, 02:24 PM
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#430
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by Aeneas
...the other is just food and drink!
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lol, one day I'll make my way back down to Pete's and buy you a beer. But don't get any ideas!
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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12-22-2008, 10:57 PM
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#431
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
lol, one day I'll make my way back down to Pete's and buy you a beer. But don't get any ideas!
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Don't worry, most people would tell you there is little going on inside my head; let alone any ideas.
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12-22-2008, 11:01 PM
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#432
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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MMM.. That is an EPIC pick. It's currently neck and neck with my all time favourite "The Wars" also by a Canadian author and taking place in the First World War.
I love that book so much. The story is amazing, the characters are incredible, the detail of the battles, the scene with the German sniper, everything. It was just wonderful.
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12-22-2008, 11:56 PM
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#433
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Round 6
Children's Literature
I Am David (originally published as "David". You may know it as "North to Freedom).
by Anne Holm -- first published in 1965
My mama bought this for me when I was about 10 and I read it a few times a year until I was at least 16. I've read it a couple times since then. It's the story of a kid who has lived in a concentration camp in Bulgaria his entire life and he escapes when he's 12 or 13. It follows him along until he finds his mom in Denmark.
It's a pretty sad story so I don't know exactly why I liked it so much. I guess I found a connection between my cushy life in the suburbs of Calgary in the 1980s and a Stalinist 60's concentration camp.
While I had to make my way to Mr. Soft Drink for cream soda and sours, David had to be lowered off the side of a boat into the Mediterranean in the middle of the night.
When David smelled his first bar of real soap, I understood, because we had just been introduced to the miracle of "SoftSoap", that came in liquid form, and had a pump.
The similarities were endless.
I had to do a group project in a children's literature class in university and I picked this book for the group. The assignment was the four of us would get up in front of the 71 other people in the class and discuss what we liked and disliked about the book. This would go on for 15 minutes. Shortly before we were to "go on" one member of the group bolted, claiming stage fright. Another guy said "sorry dude, I didn't even read it". The third person had read the book but didn't seem to know anything about it, so that left me, totally unrehearsed (we were just supposed to chat, after all, and were encouraged to not rehearse) to talk for 15 minutes. This may not seem like a big deal to some of you, but it is a very big deal for me. I'm not good with the public speaking. I managed to get through that and (happily) we were graded individually.
Bla bla bla. It's still one of my favourites (maybe just for nostalgia's sake).
Apologies to Adrian Mole, my other favourite. He's another European twerp with problems, but not quite the same as David's.
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12-23-2008, 08:41 AM
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#434
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I just want to say there are some really interesting picks lately. It is going to take me months to scratch the surface of the list that interests me, and we aren't even half done.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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12-23-2008, 10:48 AM
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#435
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I'm driving across Saskatchewan today, so if my pick comes up, AK me and I'll pick it up tonight.
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12-23-2008, 12:47 PM
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#436
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
It's a pretty sad story so I don't know exactly why I liked it so much. I guess I found a connection between my cushy life in the suburbs of Calgary in the 1980s and a Stalinist 60's concentration camp.
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Hahahah this whole anecdote is pure gold!
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I'm driving across Saskatchewan today, so if my pick comes up, AK me and I'll pick it up tonight.
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Pfff! Hook up your cell to your laptop, check for cows, then lash down the wheel and get 'er done!
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12-24-2008, 01:22 PM
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#437
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I'm moving Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to the humour section (using the second pick there, which I traded for).
In the Science Fiction category, I'm now selecting Kurt Vonnegut's tale of war, time travel and alien abduction, Slaughterhouse Five. It's at times funny, heartwrenching, and emotional work about an american soldier who becomes a prisoner of war and witnesses the firebombing of Dresden, is captured by aliens, becomes 'unstuck in time', a phenomenon that causes him to drift through parts of his life in a very non-linear manner. But more than anything, I love the flawed, intrusive narrator; as a work of postmoderism, this is a really influential book for me. It's a book I had heard a lot about for a long time but which never interested me; it's extremely difficult to explain why it's such a great book.
Anyway, merry christmas, fellow lit-drafters, I hope you all receive some great books tomorrow!
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12-24-2008, 01:36 PM
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#438
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Scoring Winger
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In the Category of Philosophy/Religion Circa89 is proud to select:
Joseph Campbell
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion (1986). Alfred van der Marck Editions
I have to run to go to sledding while the weather is nice this Christmas eve day.
This book taught me about comparative religion, world mythologies, what being a Jedi is all about, Jungian Archetypes but most of all how to "FOLLOW YOUR BLISS"
If you ever get the chance to see his interviews on PBS with Bill Moyer please do so.
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12-24-2008, 01:37 PM
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#439
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by Circa89
In the Category of Philosophy/Religion Circa89 is proud to select:
Joseph Campbell
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion (1986). Alfred van der Marck Editions
I have to run to go to sledding while the weather is nice this Christmas eve day.
This book taught me about comparative religion, world mythologies, what being a Jedi is all about, Jungian Archetypes but most of all how to "FOLLOW YOUR BLISS"
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I was going to pick The Power Of Myth.
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12-24-2008, 02:58 PM
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#440
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by troutman
I was going to pick The Power Of Myth.
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Equally great books. You still have the opportunity, after all, I started the selecting of Philip K Dick and two others followed suit. 
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