ALA! Pt. 3 (and final)
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checkers65477The last bit, I promise.
Saw this on John Green's blog site:
"July shall be NAtional Finish A Revision Of Your Book I Mean Seriously Come On Month (NAFAROYBIMSCOM). Anyone joining me?"
The Printz Reception
This was quite different from the banquet the night before. Informal and more relaxed, it was held in the huge auditorium with about 700 people there. The chair of the Printz committee was not irritating like the Newbery lady, though she sighed often as if she were too tired to go on. Perhaps she was, especially if she was on one of the other committees that met for hours and hours over the previous days.
All five authors spoke, and all were eloquent and engrossing in different ways. Gene Yang had some slides of rude/racist/stupid comments bloggers had posted about American Born Chinese. He is a HS science teacher and seemed very sincere and gratified to be there. Sonya Hartnett is a tiny lady and was funny and fierce but for the life of me I can't recall what she talked about. Marcus Zusak had a humorous story about the phone call to tell him he'd won as an honor book. He was off somewhere where he had no phone and his mother took a garbled message for him. John Green talked about how Muslim-Americans are treated in the US and about his friend who he based the character of Hassan on. He told a funny story about librarians and his dad kept standing up shooting with his video camera. Tobin Anderson was not feeling well and left right after his speech. He spoke about the importance of historical fiction books and how easy it is for people to look at the past and think we would never have committed what we now see as grievous wrongs. The issue of slavery is easy for us to look back on and believe we would have acted differently, or would have seen it as so wrong. One day, he said, people in the future will look back at us and wonder how we could have supported some of the things we now do.
My camera wasn't doing well that day, so this is the only photo that turned out. Marcus Zusak is darling, isn't he? That is Gene Yang sitting in the dark suit.
Earlier that day, Small But Mighty colleague and I went to the Library of Congress. We lost our minds and decided to walk there. It wasn't too far, about three miles, but it was hot and so humid! We took the Metro (subway) back and were very pleased with ourselves that we were able to figure it out without making too big of asses of ourselves. The Library of Congress was terrifically awesome. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson sold his library to the US to begin the Library of Congress?
This was quite different from the banquet the night before. Informal and more relaxed, it was held in the huge auditorium with about 700 people there. The chair of the Printz committee was not irritating like the Newbery lady, though she sighed often as if she were too tired to go on. Perhaps she was, especially if she was on one of the other committees that met for hours and hours over the previous days.
All five authors spoke, and all were eloquent and engrossing in different ways. Gene Yang had some slides of rude/racist/stupid comments bloggers had posted about American Born Chinese. He is a HS science teacher and seemed very sincere and gratified to be there. Sonya Hartnett is a tiny lady and was funny and fierce but for the life of me I can't recall what she talked about. Marcus Zusak had a humorous story about the phone call to tell him he'd won as an honor book. He was off somewhere where he had no phone and his mother took a garbled message for him. John Green talked about how Muslim-Americans are treated in the US and about his friend who he based the character of Hassan on. He told a funny story about librarians and his dad kept standing up shooting with his video camera. Tobin Anderson was not feeling well and left right after his speech. He spoke about the importance of historical fiction books and how easy it is for people to look at the past and think we would never have committed what we now see as grievous wrongs. The issue of slavery is easy for us to look back on and believe we would have acted differently, or would have seen it as so wrong. One day, he said, people in the future will look back at us and wonder how we could have supported some of the things we now do.
My camera wasn't doing well that day, so this is the only photo that turned out. Marcus Zusak is darling, isn't he? That is Gene Yang sitting in the dark suit.
Earlier that day, Small But Mighty colleague and I went to the Library of Congress. We lost our minds and decided to walk there. It wasn't too far, about three miles, but it was hot and so humid! We took the Metro (subway) back and were very pleased with ourselves that we were able to figure it out without making too big of asses of ourselves. The Library of Congress was terrifically awesome. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson sold his library to the US to begin the Library of Congress?
Saw this on John Green's blog site:
"July shall be NAtional Finish A Revision Of Your Book I Mean Seriously Come On Month (NAFAROYBIMSCOM). Anyone joining me?"
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Date: 2007-07-06 02:02 am (UTC)*secretly thinks Australians are taking over the world*
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Date: 2007-07-06 02:26 am (UTC)Yes! I had no idea they were both Australian. And look at what I'm finally reading! *points to icon*
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Date: 2007-07-06 02:04 am (UTC)* Pokes Willow *
* Pokes Jade *
Nicely done report, checkers! Sounds like it was one heck of a trip.
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Date: 2007-07-06 02:28 am (UTC)Yes, Willow and Jade. What about it?
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Date: 2007-07-06 02:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-06 02:34 am (UTC)After all, it's NAFAROYBIMSCOM.
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Date: 2007-07-06 10:08 am (UTC)NAFAROYBIMSCOM!
LOL
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Date: 2007-07-06 12:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-07 04:17 am (UTC)Aw man, the Library of Congress! When we were in D.C. on the senior class trip I tried to talk my government/history teacher into taking us there (and nearly succeeded, except it was just SO out of the way we never would have been able to walk there...but then again she also threatened to take us there as early as it opened and make us do mini-research papers, so maybe for the best?). The first time I went to D.C. I managed to get a good look at the Air and Space Museum; the second time it was the...East? Gallery of the National Art Gallery (whichever one has the da Vinci in it). Next time, the bottom floor of that Gallery and the Library of Congress. *makes a mental note*
Totally cool!
"July shall be NAtional Finish A Revision Of Your Book I Mean Seriously Come On Month (NAFAROYBIMSCOM). Anyone joining me?"
Sounds like a NaNoWriMo-type commitment. I'll have to remember that one. XD
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Date: 2007-07-07 02:05 pm (UTC)We had heard that the tour of LoC for us librarians included parts that psople normally don't see, but not so. Darn. Nothing to deter people from going like the threat of a mini-research paper. :)