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Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
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yes yes yes!! thank you to all the goodreaders who recommended this to me after my love for island of the blue dolphins became known. it turns out i love survival stories!! with teens!! and i wish i could say i never tore my eyes from the page and read this in an hour, but i have been having a distractedish day today; emailing my dad for father's day (everyone: call your dads!! or if they are at work, email-chat them!) and then there was a fire across the street from me (which is my number one all time fear) and the people in the building are so casual about it - there are two fire trucks in the street, and firefighters swarming everywhere, and i look in the windows and in two different apartments, there are people just sitting and watching and smoking cigarettes. what is wrong with them?? don't they care that their building is on fire?? don't they feel the fear i feel?? did they light their cigarettes from their blazing belongings and treasures?? i don't understand their stoicism in the face of fire. but you know who loves fire?? brian. he uses it to survive in the wilderness. seamless segue back into the review. it's great. i could read 400 more pages of this story. and despite my own fears of the fire leaping across the street to consume me and my beloved books, i could still engage in his plight: when he d the h in the w (clever code prevents spoilers) - i actually gasped out loud. and there were several times when he overcame a particular setback that i smiled. i totally cared about this character. i would love more survivaly stories, if anyone's got 'em.
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Jun 23, 2009 11:04AM
Wow. No. I would remember being there!
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I'm pretty new to Texas, so I'm not sure how far you are from Austin, but apparently this place is only like a 30 minute drive north from me.
I looked it up- sounds like a nice spot for locals but a long trek only to find out that maximum occupancy for the day has already been reached.Palo Duro canyon is where I want to go.
holy crap thats pretty!
It's definitely enticing (Hamilton Pool that is). And Arrested Development is such a great show. I'm making my way through all three seasons for the umpteenth time. Everyone psyched for the movie?
My son liked Hatchet, Karen. We love adventure stories and we've tried other Paulsen books, but this so far is a favorite.
im going to give the other ones a shot anyway - for survivals sake..
Ha. Actually Dogsong is one I bought for my son and he had some interest in it, but not as much as Hatchet inspired. The beginning is more atmospheric and character-driven, but I was intrigued. I read the beginning of it out loud to my son. Sometimes I find myself getting more into a book than he does, ha! I would like to finish Dogsong. Let me know if you end up liking the others and I'll read them for my own sake, and survival's sake too.
deal. i have already gathered them at work. they await me.
I look forward to your take on My Side of the Mountain. Apparently there's a film-adaptation of it. I'm avoiding it out of a silly but I'm sure recognizable fear of it altering my deeply cherished childhood memories of the story. Maybe I'll check it out. I think I read somewhere that it's a poor adaptation...oh, denial!
I once pledged to read that book once a year for the rest of my life. I broke that pledge, but still, it was good enough for me to make it.
okay - this weekend i pledge to read coraline, my side of the mountain and one paulsen book. and school starts after that, so no being bossy after that - i will be hard at my studies! and id like to read a grown up book every now and then. i still have all that proust to come...
ooooh coraline. I read that with my boys. They loved it and so did I.
thanks, brit...i missed the movie when it came out so i might as well read it... sigh... reading is for nerds.
Hmmpf. Harry Potter is (probably, exclusively) for nerds. But reading though?? Well...yeah, you're right. Nevermind.
still havent read or seen any harry potters...
Same here! And I've only really felt quasi-proud of this since we last talked about it. Midnight sales!
MyFleshSingsOut wrote: "Same here! And I've only really felt quasi-proud of this since we last talked about it. Midnight sales!"They're okay. My son loves them and reads one a year.
I'm sure they are. I really don't have any hate for Harry Potter. Just an extreme lack of interest.
greg read some. when he wasnt being a braniac.
I am scared to write that they needed a heavier edit for fear that HP fans will descend upon me and make me actually eat all the jelly beans that are always clearanced because no one wants to get a nasty surprise.
Jen wrote: "I am scared to write that they needed a heavier edit for fear that HP fans will descend upon me and make me actually eat all the jelly beans that are always clearanced because no one wants to get a..."
I'll stand with you on a need for edits, though my main contact has been via read out loud sessions by my husband to my child.
I'll stand with you on a need for edits, though my main contact has been via read out loud sessions by my husband to my child.
ohhh i had some of those jelly beans...
karen wrote: "ohhh i had some of those jelly beans..."Had they been clearanced?
My daughters read and loved HP when growing up and forced me to read them. I was sick with boredom. (Sorry girls)..
Alan wrote: "My daughters read and loved HP when growing up and forced me to read them. I was sick with boredom. (Sorry girls).."
I read ahead of my son, so I have not finished all the HP books, but find them tolerably good. He (my son)liked Le Guin's Earthsea and The Hobbit as well, so I am not worried that his reading will dead end into HP worship.
they're alright I spose, I'm just an arsey curmudgeon.
Alan wrote: "they're alright I spose, I'm just an arsey curmudgeon."I am just glad I missed standing in line at midnight for it- my son was too young to do that, and I was too old.
mine didn't quite, but they had to have the books the next day.
Does anyone remember or is anyone reading these days Island of the Blue Dolphins? This was one of my brother's favorites when he was young and we read it to my son a year or so ago. I think it's a beautiful book, beautifully written, a great story.
Karen just reviewed it recently I believe. I haven't read it in a long time.
yeah i just reviewed it because it is one of my all time faves. when i was applying to college, one of the essays was "write about a book that influenced your life" or something. so i closed my eyes and pointed, and its what i touched, so i wrote my essay on it. so i have it to thank for getting me into college. glad i didnt "choose" helter skelter or anything...and the jelly beans were not clearanced - it was the midnight magic party and someone bought them (kathy?) and we ate them and they were beyond gross. and im pretty tolerant of food. that was not food.
i was the one who bought them. rotten egg was the worst, even worse than vomit
damn you, giggles!!! it was a mistake!!
I was perusing earlier posts, Karen, and don't know if you explained yourself or not, but how does one get kicked out of brownies? (I love it.) Very cool that Island of the Blue Dolphins provided the basis for your college essay. Now I will definitely read your review.
it was mostly small-town politics. i wish it were more interesting. i think i got kicked out because my troop leader and my mom didnt get along - at one point my mom was a troop leader too - but there was something involving me and a few girls filling in some boxes with markers (and in this case, i mean boxes on some kind of chart, it wasnt that kind of brownie troop) but i alone got kicked out - i dont even remember, i was like 8. but- it was just before the sleepover at the boston science museum so i was super pissed, but if i had gone i probably would have gotten kicked out anyway because i had all these plans with diagrams and everything about the mischief i was going to cause. so it was probably pre-emptive anyway - ha.
Brownie politics. I was never a Brownie, but went straight to girl scouts. I hated the troop leader's daughter with a passion that shouldn't have been allowed a Christian girl. But I did like all that outdoors stuff and camping stuff. Sorry about the boston science museum. Yeah, better to get out while you were still ahead, while everyone still had their pigtails.
yeah but i was going to steal a dinosaur!!! missed opportunities...
Steal a dinosaur? How would you have gotten it in your backpack? Did you have a diagram explaining that? I once was at Notre Dame when a member of our party tried to take a crumb off of a crumbling wall.....it wasn't pretty. The guards went freak-o.
Take a crumb from a crumbling wall....It just sounds the beginning of something writerly. Jen, I still think you need to write something even if you won't write my "Memoirs of a Librarian."
i guess i was just hoping no one would notice?? im sure it all made sense in my tiny brain. i was going to climb upon it, too. i wish i still had those diagrams. it was the perfect crime!
karen wrote: "i guess i was just hoping no one would notice?? im sure it all made sense in my tiny brain. i was going to climb upon it, too. i wish i still had those diagrams. it was the perfect crime!"In kindergarten I wrote a note of permission to ride home with a friend on her bus so that I could go with her to eat pizza and watch a robotic gorilla dance and sing. I signed it mom. When the bus driver saw my note she asked if my mom had signed it. I replied, "It says mom right there!" Duh, bus driver!
Meg wrote: "Take a crumb from a crumbling wall....It just sounds the beginning of something writerly. Jen, I still think you need to write something even if you won't write my "Memoirs of a Librarian.""I am working on a story about pockets with holes (an adventure in men's underwear and what fills it). Some day it will be finished.
Ha! I'm talking to Stacy Barton....more later chica.
hahahaah slick criminal, you...
If I had been in Brownies with you we would have been unstoppable.
Jen: Holes in men's underwear: This is definitely worth investigating. At my house, I sneak the relics graced with holes into the trash as often as possible and somehow, my husband manages to find the time to get new ones. Whereas I used to worry myself with getting new ones, I have found this loophole, this way around wifely duty and concern. If they all disappear, he has no choice but to take himself to the store for new tidy whites. Or, he does have a choice, I guess, but he doesn't exercise this one. Wow. The things we say on GR.
seriously. we should go on a crime spree now. get a sitter. destroy this message...
