Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Twenty-one Elephants and Still Standing
by April Jones Prince
We had interesting discussions of our two books on Thursday, and delicious food provided by everyone!!
We pretty much all agreed that the picture book, although very
beautiful left a bit to be desired in the language area -- it tried to be poetic
-- but wasn't....and some questioned that it would be well-received by
elementary-aged kids. We thought the art was beautiful, but not really kid-like,
and that there was too much kids needed to know before they could truly enjoy
it.
As for Twilight -- One of our members, Michelle, who
often says, "Gee - I wish I'd written that line," said of Twilight,
"There wasn't a single line in the book that I wish I'd written!" We agreed that
it was relatively formulaic, very pure and 'clean' at the beginning, and then as
it progressed it seemed to be less and less about a high school kid. We
understood why 11-year-old girls would go ga-ga over this series.....not so sure
about adults.......oh, well.
