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Showing posts with label meeting. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

BIG NEWS!

Fantastic meeting today with lots of exciting news and excited Shadowers!

First off - here's our official group photo.  We're missing several people who are either on study leave or had an athletics meeting (grr...) but this is the bulk of us.


We also announced two pieces of very exciting news. 

On 25th May we'll be welcoming Marcus Sedgwick to the library!  He's coming to join us for lunch and talk to us (or if the pattern holds, be talked at...) about his books and his work.  Marcus has some hard-core fans here, and this is a fantastic opportunity to discuss the issues raised in White Crow and hopefully get answers to all the questions that they've been dying to ask.  Hopefully we'll also get the chance to ask about life as a writer, get some tips on reviewing for our Guardian Young Readers and quiz him about his next book, the eagerly anticipated Midwinterblood.  
There'll be no early lunch passes for this one - you'll need to bring a packed lunch and a drink with you.  Rumour has it that he's fond of plain chocolate digestives.  Bring sandwiches and cake!  It's library picnic time. 

And on the 22nd June we'll be joining Patrick Ness for a Twitter chat!  I’m sure that Will everyone has many questions and things they’d like to discuss about the Chaos Walking trilogy and that Will will lead the discussion in a magnificent display of fan-boy geekiness everyone will have lots to say! 

How lucky are we?! 


Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Meeting Day!

At lunchtime we met up for only our second formal Carnegie Shadowing meeting and I'm delighted to announce that our group has grown, and that nearly everyone has finished reading at least one book already!  Well done everyone.  That means that there's a lot of reviews to write...

Several people started their review writing today and I'm really looking forward to reading them.  Don't forget the guidance page on the tabs along the top, where there are easy to follow instructions on how to write a detailed review. If you find that you can't write that much about a book, don't worry!  Just a couple of paragraphs about what you liked and what you didn't will be fine. The important thing is that as many of us as possible are reading these books, reviewing them and talking about them. As I said, there are some exciting things on the horizon.

If anyone needs help logging in or posting reviews, please let me know on my school email address (adkinsn etc) and I'll be happy to help out.  And don't forget to comment on each other's reviews!  If you've read the same book, what did you think of it?  Do you agree with what the reviewer has said?  It's ok to disagree, and not that that I would advocate fighting (ok, that's slightly untrue - book fights are totally awesome) having a discussion is to be encouraged.

Keep going, Ninja Readers!