I'm so proud of my Mom!

[dfriedla]

I tried to teach Mom to knit today. She used to crochet and liked it, but she can't see the spaces between the stitches as clearly as she could. I gave her a book and a hook and some wool for felted stuff a while back, but I think she just found it frustrating. I pestered her until she agreed to try knitting, which I frequently do without even

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[cme2694]

I will totally admit that I got a kick out of the Twilight books. They aren't hard adult reading at all, and they were WAY too sappy for me to ever want to go back and read again.

In my defense, though, so many of my students were reading the books that I picked the books up - partly to see what the hype was, but partly to be able to talk to the kids about them. Sort of an indirect way to let them know that reading IS cool! If nothing else, one of my students ended up borrowing the last book from me to read (the wait time was too long at the library!)

[dfriedla]

No defense needed! They just aren't my cup of tea. :-)

You bring up an interesting point. I hadn't considered the possibility that books like this are an entry point to other things in the "reading is cool" world. Twilight to Bram Stoker's original Dracula, for instance. Maybe there's hope after all!

I agree with your students on the library, though. I ultimately had to buy Twilight on iTunes. The hold line is something like 60 people long for basically every copy in the library system, and I desperately needed an audiobook for my planned day and a half of seasickness in the Drake Passage.

[cme2694]

We were told in college, in education classes that however you can get a kid to read - DO IT! Even if it's comic books, it's still reading.

We have a fairly large library at our school, so I'm hoping that they have a 'If you liked Twilight, then you'll also like...' bulletin board somewhere.