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The Fault In Our Stars Author John Green has done this and he did it as a teenaged girl. They are currently making a movie out of The Fault in Our Stars as well. Here is a link to an answer he gave...

Older daughter has now been assigned The Handmaid's Tale. I remember watching the movie back in 1990, but I never read the book.

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, a work of science...

Book updates: Older daughter had to Read Catcher in the Rye (which we already talker about in this thread and I posted a vocabulary thread about). Now for mandatory summer reading, younger daughter...

Older daughter's English class is now on to... Frankenstein. Yet again another book I never read. Never saw any of the movie versions either.

You can get the book legally online in English HERE

CoffeeCup,

Sorry for coming in late to this... I thought I had talked about this book or the movie made from it... The Time Traveler's Wife it is written in present tense. Here is an interesting...

Hey Kidkboom.... daughter says many thanks and to say... not to be rude or anything, but ya never came back with Book 12 :) She has to write a script for a small skit for those two books.

kidkboom (or anyone else who has read The Odyssey) my daughter would like to have your take on Chapter 11 The Kingdom of the Dead and Chapter 12 The Castle of the Sun. As you gave an amazing summary...

Kidkboom... I feel like the idiot as I don't see where someone else answered this...

As for what you wrote... THANK YOU.. you made the book seem VERY interesting and made me actually want to read...

Older daughter has to read The Odyssey for English class. I never had to read this in school and I don't look forward to reading this with her. I downloaded a full-cast audio version of the book and...

A number of my daughter's friends were talking in school about the book Post Secret so we went to the library yesterday and got a copy, The books (there is more than one now) came out of an art...

CoffeeCup,
I agree with E-Learner that you should be able to handle this book. Your English is VERY good! And if you run into troubles... I have an idea. If you recall, Olya had a thread dedicated...

What an interesting concept! It works off of people signing up and creating lists of books that they have read and like. So, you enter in a book you've read and it matches to the people who have that...

This poem comes from another thread and was suggested by studyr for my book:

The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть) by: Aleksandr Pushkin


The Bronze...

I saw this book (fiction) in the bookstore today and it caught my attention... Olya... one of the main characters is Olga and she is a person who masters multiple foreign languages!
There are also...

Interesting that you are sepaking about Nabokov and Lolita... I came across this site while helping my daughter with her paper about Sikorsky..
http://englishrussia.com/?p=3141
6 Russian People Who...

Okay, so this was sort of off topic on another thread so I am swining it over here and hoping someone might know the answer!

The Russian folktale Колобок
Roly-Poly: a baked roll which escaped...

Johanna, I have not ready any of her work... sorry. Have you, and if so what would you recommend??

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Older daughter has now read one of Ray Bradbury's short stories. I remember him...

Just came back from parent/teacher conferences for the girls and found out the next book older daughter gets to read for class is.... Animal Farm by George Orwell!! When it was brought up that I am...

Yes, it is. Our county started using it... oh, about five years ago I want to say. It is called MAPr (Measures of Academic Progress Reading) and it is a computerized testing program. The children...

starrysky, you brought up a really good question and you may have answered for me WHY it is "you" Russians have such a wonderful vocabulary and wordsmith so well!

So, let me answer your question...

Thought about posting this under Learn English... but as we were talking about the book here... I figured I keep it here.... :unknown:

As I mentioned, older daughter (8th grade/13) had to read...

If you remember a little while back, younger daughter had her assignment to write a poem with "essence" and a "wow" factor.

WELL... with YOUR help she was able to understand whole "essence" idea...

Zubr, http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/sign/sign0200.gif

Thanks for thinking of me (and of course others)!!

So, this was way cool. I have NEVER heard "professional" Russian poetry before!!...

Ahhh, another video I have been waiting for someone to post online so that I could share with all of you!!! This is when I start making certain my daughters at least KNOW of these books even if they...

Miles... I hope you will not mind if I use your thougths for our topic of conversation at the dinner table tonight. You make very interesting points and I feel my girls should have these nuggets...