Hey, the sequel will be released sometime this month, but it's all very vague, so I wouldn't mess up your order of Twilight by requesting that they be shipped together. :::grins:::
Word on the street is everything from mid-August to late-August on New Moon, so who the hell knows. I preordered from amazon, but if my B&N had a copy that I saw passing by, you can guess that I would grab it in a heartbeat and return the other one later.
You'll like Other Bolelyn Girl too, btw. But, Twilight is better! Hee, hee.
I hear you on that duplicate school paperwork. It's maddening!
Why haven't they databsed this stuff ... enter it once online and they can pass it to whichever department needs it. And if you don't have a computer, let the parents come into the library, or let *them* fill out one set of paperwork and a high school student can input it for community service hours....
"Memoirs of a Geisha", the movie was better than the book.
I have encountered neither but it is so uncommon to have someone comment that the movies is better than the book that I am now compelled to seek both.
And Mansfield Park, I'm probably one of the very few who will name this as her favourite Austen book. It's such a departure from her other works and I've always loved that Fanny was so...plain as opposed to Austen's other heroines who always were bursting with some characteristic or other.
I read "Memoirs.." 2 months ago and watched the movie this past weekend. I prefer the book to the movie, but I have to say the movie was really excellently done - of course they had to cut out plot elements to make it short enough, but they managed to get the atmosphere and the characters true to the book. I enjoyed it immensively :-) What made you like the movie more than the book?
I've come to the realization that I usually prefer whichever I encounter first. If I see the movie before reading the book, I prefer the movie, and vice versa. The only two exceptions being "Anne of Green Gables" where, though the mini-series is excellent, the book is just so much more charming, and "Bridget Jones" where she-who-I-cannot-spell-the-name-of, Renee Z-something's acting totally makes up for Helen Fielding's lack of writing ability :)
genealogygirl made me read "Twilight" too. It's really, really, really good! 500 pages and I devoured it in 24 hours. I simply just couldn't put it down. I hope you'll like it too :-)
Do all southern schools start this early? I know ceilidh (near the NC/SC border) goes back early, too, but around here, late-Aug/early-Sept is more common. What grades are your kids in now?
Yeah it's a southern thing. The school year finishes up before Memorial Day, so we have about the same length of summer, it just shifts. I'm not sure why they do it that way. Next year they are threatening to not start until mid to late August, which would give up about 14 weeks of summer instead of 10...Urgh ...I can't afford that much summer camp!
Anyway, my kids started 8th, 4th, and 2nd grades. Its nice to be back in school.
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Word on the street is everything from mid-August to late-August on New Moon, so who the hell knows. I preordered from amazon, but if my B&N had a copy that I saw passing by, you can guess that I would grab it in a heartbeat and return the other one later.
You'll like Other Bolelyn Girl too, btw. But, Twilight is better! Hee, hee.
I hear you on that duplicate school paperwork. It's maddening!
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I have encountered neither but it is so uncommon to have someone comment that the movies is better than the book that I am now compelled to seek both.
And Mansfield Park, I'm probably one of the very few who will name this as her favourite Austen book. It's such a departure from her other works and I've always loved that Fanny was so...plain as opposed to Austen's other heroines who always were bursting with some characteristic or other.
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I've come to the realization that I usually prefer whichever I encounter first. If I see the movie before reading the book, I prefer the movie, and vice versa. The only two exceptions being "Anne of Green Gables" where, though the mini-series is excellent, the book is just so much more charming, and "Bridget Jones" where she-who-I-cannot-spell-the-name-of, Renee Z-something's acting totally makes up for Helen Fielding's lack of writing ability :)
genealogygirl made me read "Twilight" too. It's really, really, really good! 500 pages and I devoured it in 24 hours. I simply just couldn't put it down. I hope you'll like it too :-)
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Me, too.
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Anyway, my kids started 8th, 4th, and 2nd grades. Its nice to be back in school.
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I can't believe it is back to school time already!
Hugs,
Elia
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