This is the title of a book i am discussion leader for today at lunchbunch. It is a love story between a Chinese and Japanese boy and girl who met during world war 2 in California. There is some great historical info intertwined which made the read very interesting and landed it on my favorite list. i went to the "author talk" at the FlagBookFest and absolutely loved it. how cool to hear the workings of the story from the man who wrote it!
There was also a man there who read some of his poetry. i want to admit i barely understood half of the poems. i am a college graduate but realized my vocab is probably an 8th grade level. i had never thought of that before... what does "reading at a 7th grade level" mean? it must have to do with vocab and comprehension, not just that someone dropped out of school at 7th grade. the poet had great word choice creating vivid images but then he'd use a big word at the end and i couldn't quite get the punch line so i just followed the crowd with a "ha", a clap and a nod acting like i knew how funny it was. i was slightly depressed at my underachiever-realization that i hadn't pushed myself to learn more back in the day and possibly i truly am an 8th grade reader.. YIKES! but i also left slightly motivated to learn new bigboy words and encourage my kids to get into more difficult reading.
2 comments:
The book sounds interesting - I'll put it on my "to-read" list.
As for poetry and vocabulary. I think I have a pretty good vocabulary, but I just don't get poetry. I can appreciate it, but I don't get it. Maybe that's something I should work on.
oh, and by the way - love the Bednar-thank prayer example. you guys rock!
I just ordered this book on CD from the Douglas County libray. Hope it gets here in time for my Utah trip.
Thx for the info. Love, Mom
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