Member: t1bclasslibrary

Hi...
I sent a reply to you but I may have messed it up... It looks like my reply was posted to my profile page. I'm still getting used to LibraryThing. In any regard, I'm excited about your participation in the book project.

posted by dogdayspress at 10:40 am (EST) on Mar 2, 2008

I got the new Julie doll for Christmas and her complete set of Julie Books and the one on Ivy, Julie's friend. Did you get any new AG dolls or books? waiting to hear from you:)

posted by princessm at 4:29 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2007

Saturday I went to the local Barnes and Noble to the American Girl Club. We were discussing the new Julie book. I would like to know which dolls you have? I am hoping to get Julie for Christmas:) I have Jess, Nicki, Emily, The Twins, Itty Bitty, My look alike.
Have fun collecting

posted by princessm at 8:14 pm (EST) on Oct 23, 2007

I am an avid fan of the AG books. I have 7 of the dolls and have just recently added to my collection of books two of the new "Julie" Series. My mom and dad went to the book fair festival in Washington D.C. this past weekend and surprised me with the signature of the author who wrote the new Julie Series. She is Megan McDonald and is known for writing the Judy Moody Series. I am now a proud owner of an "autographed Julie American Girl" book!!

I love your library and think it is great to see a teacher that is so excited about teaching kids.

posted by princessm at 8:25 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2007

I'm new here and haven't started to set up my library yet, but I noticed that you have a pop up book of Sleeping Beauty. I used to own a beautiful one when I was a child, but I stupidly sold it during a yardsale. Is your version the one with a pop up of the entire Sleeping Beauty castle interior, showing at the top a spinning wheel suspended by a string?

posted by woodrose at 6:16 pm (EST) on Mar 6, 2007

So if you actually bother to read my little comment blog thing, or if you're looking at my library at all, you're probably wondering a little about it. As it says in my profile, this is intended as a children's book library for a classroom. Hopefully I'll have my own classroom next year, and I'm working ultra-hard to put this together and get this ready now. So, what's with the reviews? Much as I have fun being a prolific reviewer (and use that as motivation to get through my piles of books), the reviews are for my own use. You'll notice that many of them are just descriptions of the books, although if I feel strongly about something or have a way that it can be used, I'll include that.

I feel very strongly that reviews should be something useful. My reviews are intended to be thorough enough that when I need books for school (like the astronomy unit we're doing now or because a student's reading it and wants to talk about it), I can click on the reviews of the books with relevant tags and get a quick refresher on the book without pulling it out again. It's a major pet peeve when someone posts a review that says that they don't remember the book but think maybe it was good. That says a few things to me: 1. You wasted my time because I bothered to read your review, 2. You probably shouldn't even have this book in your library anymore if you care so little for it- why not donate it?, 3. You wasted your time writing the review, and 4. You don't care about writing decent, useful reviews, you just want to review everything or have the most reviews or something. Yuck. I don't mind the occational review like "Unbelieable. Amazing." or something like that that tends to come up for 1984, because it actually says something (of course if all your reviews are like that, it says more about you than your reviews...) Part of the reason that my personal library is much shorter on reviews is that I want to revisit the books in a meaningful way before I review them. I should mention that there are some reviewers who blow me away, like bluetyson and burnit99, who write long, meaningful reviews constantly and consistantly. I'm always especially curious to see what letter burnit99's on because s/he has been adding books alphabetically, so I've been betting with myself about how many books are in that library.

So anyway, if you're going to write reviews, don't review a book that you can't say a meaningful sentence about. Also, you might notice that the number of books in my library and that I've reviewed are generally the same- that's because I read each book that goes into my library, and then I write a review after I read it. Reviews take me a long time for longer books (and some of the longest are nonfiction picture books). :} I'm probably going to just review the chapter books that I've got piled up that I read as a child without rereading them (as long as I can remember them well enough to write a real review, like I said, it's got to be useful for me), because otherwise I might not have time to have everything read and ready for my classroom next year. Otherwise, when you read a review I've written, I've almost always read the book the day of the review (except the first 300 or so, which I had reviewed on my own computer the day I read them, but didn't review the day they were added to Live Journal)- that's my commitment. Anyway, if you're bothering to read this, I hope you're enjoying looking at my library and reading my reviews!

posted by t1bclasslibrary at 2:44 am (EST) on Feb 20, 2007