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May 08

19

Chloe Anne: Force of Nature by Valerie Oblath

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on May 19, 2008
Posted in Animals • Books Read 2008 • Valerie Oblath  | 9 Comments

Fun Cat Memoir for Cat Lovers


This is Chloe Anne’s memoir, written for her by her mother Valerie Oblath.

Poor Chloe Anne, her family is moving and gave her to the Humane Society. She lives in a little cage until her new mom and author, Valerie Oblath adopts her. Chloe Anne loves her new home and cat sister, Cinders. Her new mother is very good and patient with her. Chloe Anne shares with us insights into her new family and her escapades.

This is a fun and entertaining romp with a real-life cat. However, since Chloe Anne lives with a Jewish mother, there is one chapter that makes a lot of references to Jewish Holidays and some of the customs. Some readers, who do not know much about these, may not get a few of the references. None the less, this is a great book for most cat lovers.

4/5

Thanks to Three C’s Publishing for an advance copy of this book!

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May 08

18

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on May 18, 2008
Posted in Books Read 2008 • Classics • Ray Bradbury  | 12 Comments



Feels Like a Real-Life Thriller

In a futuristic society when firefighters don’t put out fires anymore. Their job now it to create fires. When an alarm is called in, firemen gear up as they use to and speed to the scene, a house with forbidden books in it. All the books are gathered up and hosed down with not water, but kerosene, then set a blaze. Montag is one of those firemen.

This is a time when in most homes, the walls in the living room aren’t walls, their giant screen televisions. The shows on mostly comprise of nonsensical bickering, for entertainment. People are not concerned about any issues, except forbidden books. Ignorance is bliss.



When Montag meets Clarrise, a 17-year-old girl, at first she annoys him. She likes to ask a lot of questions and notices things that most people just don’t notice or even care about. However, as he gets to know her better, he starts to question things himself. A question that he has is a very dangerous question: why are books so dangerous that we have to burn them? What’s in them? As he pursues this question, he gets in trouble.



This book was first published in 1951. I found this it quite frightening because there are some countries that seemed to have arrived to this in our world, and others seem to be heading towards it. In the West, people turn on their televisions and watch sitcoms much more then crack open a book. When most people ask me what I like to watch on TV, I respond that I only watch a couple things, mostly on PBS. I mostly read books, they look at me like am strange and proceed to name off all the shows that they watch.



4/5



Also Reviewed By:

Chris at book-a-rama

Nymeth at things mean a lot

Susan at You Can Never Have Too Many Books

Tanabata at In Spring it is the Dawn

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May 08

15

Weekly Geeks 3

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on May 15, 2008
Posted in Weekly Geeks  | 6 Comments

This week’s theme comes from Samantha, who suggested that one week we all write about our fond memories of childhood books.


There were several different ways suggested to do this. I chose to re-read a childhood favorite and write about it.


I was the youngest of 4 children in my family. My siblings were all quite a bit older than me. I use to drive them crazy asking them to read the same book over and over to me. I must have been around 3 or 4 years old at the time. To tell the truth, I remembered the tile of this book, but I couldn’t remember what it was about. LOL! I believe I had it memorized back then.


The book is Stone Soup:












While I was searching for a copy the other day at the library, I found out that is an old French Folk Tale. It has been re-written and illistrated by many different authors. The one I chose was written and illistrated by Marcia Brown.



It only took me a few minutes to read, it about three hungry soldiers who come across a village and ask the villagers if they could spare any food. The three soldiers say that they will have to make stone soup. This of course peaks the villagers curiosity. While the soldier make the soup, they con the villagers into giving them food for the soup.


It was a cute little story, and I can see how a young child would like it. It says it’s for ages 4-8, but I think that the oldest child it would appeal to these days, would be perhaps 5.


My rating: 4/5

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