maybethistime

Maybe This Time

Week 1 Parts: A. Group Leader- Ashley (Describe the main characters in your text. What makes them interesting? What is their story or background? Why are you drawn to them? Conversely, are there any characters that you just cannot stand? Why not?) The main characters include Andie, North, Carter, Alice, and Mrs. Crumb. What makes Andie interesting is that she was married to North and she still has feelings for him but she is engaged to Will Spencer. North is Andie's ex-husband. He was left custody of his niece and his nephew that live in a castle that might be haunted. Carter is North's nephew and he is Alice's brother. Carter loves to read comic books and he also likes to draw. Alice is Carter's sister. She doesn't talk much and likes her doll. She is emotionally attached to the house that they live in. Mrs. Crumb is the nanny that was living in the house since she was in her teens. She is not a very good nanny. Well, I am somewhat drawn to the characters because they all have a different background and their own personality. I like all the characters except for Mrs. Crumb. She has a bad attitude toward the children and to Andie. She seems to get more in the way than she does helping.

B-C. Questioner and Quotation Finder- Nikki (Share and discuss selected quotations, using Save The Last Word Techniques. Share questions with the group, as well as post the questions and answers on)

1. Do you think that Andie will end up with Will? 2. Do you think that North is crazy for sending Andy to deal with the children? 3. If you were North, would you send your ex-wife to do your dirty work? 4. Do you think that there is a reason North hadn't been down to see the children more often? 5. Do you think that North will regret not seeing the children more often?

"He couldn't help but notice the confined way she clipped her hair back." "She remembered that desk. She didn't know what it was but that desk always got to her." "The mahogany stood as a barrier between them, even then, as they were divorced." "She used to flow as if she was music." "I have tried 3 nannies and all left claiming the house haunted. I know you can get to the bottom of this."

D. Summarizer- Alexis (Post the meeting summary after class) <span style="color: #ffb800; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Today, December 3rd was our first book club meeting. Our group consists of Ashley Zufolo, Nikki Konikow and myself(Alexis Ericksen). This week we read the first fifth of our book club book entitled Maybe This Time. Nikki was in charge of Questioner and Quotation Finder, Ashley was Group Leader and I am Group Summarizer. Ashley answered questions on the main characters. I, personally feel that our first book club meeting went well.

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Week Two Jobs: Topic=Language

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A. Group Leader: Alexis (Discuss the type of language that your book contains. Is it easy to read? Conversational? "Classic"? Does it use a lot of words you don't understand? What grade level do you think the book i written at, and why?)

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">There are some sentences that are easy to read, but other sentences are very mature. Yes, this book is conversational. This book is not classic. There are a few difficult words that we had to look up in the dictionary. We think that this book is written at a high school level, but it is written to interest different age groups. It's high school level because there really aren't many terms or sentences that we didn't understand.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">B-C. Questioner and Quotation Finder: Ashley (Share and discuss selected quotations; Share questions with group and post both questions and answers)

Questions 1. Why do you think that Carter and Alice are so attached to their house? Nikki. Because it was the only home they have ever known. Alexis. They have been in the house son long that they love it.

2. Why do you think that Addie keeps having dreams about North? Nikki. She is truly on love with him Alexis. She is taking care of his “kids” and still loves him

3. How come whenever anything doesn’t go Alice’s way she has a fit and screams NO? Nikki. Because she is a baby Alexis. She is crazy

4. How do you feel about Mrs. Crumb spicing up the tea with shots? Nikki. Bad considering the fact that it is bad for you Alexis. I agree with Nikki

5. If you were in Andie’s position would you chose North or Will? Explain. Nikki. North because every night she has dreams about him and she sill has strong feelings for him. Alexis. North because she still has feelings for him

Quotes “I swear, sometimes shes two different people. One of them is grumpy and dumb and hates me, and the other is a lot sharper and thinks I’m an idiot.”

“She thought of North, of the muscle hidden by his suits, the possion behind that calm beautiful face, all of it focused on her in the first months of her marriage those memories on perpetual replay in her dreams every night.”

“Then she called him to give him the news that she was staying, and he mined. A lot.”

“The room was very clear now, the moonlight almost like sunlight, edges sharp and entirely non-dreamlike, and the place was freezing.”

“The woman she’d been talking to in her dreams was a ghost, that’s all there was to it.”

<span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">D. Summarizer: Nikki (Meeting Summary)

<span style="color: #ffa500; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">This week in book club, Alexis was the group leader, Ashley was the questioner and quote finder, and I am the Summarizer. We discussed Ashley's questions, and went over her quotes. Alexis helped us discuss the language in the book. We all agreed it would probably be at our level of reading. I think this week in book club was successful overall.

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A. Group Leader (Discuss the tone or mood of the book)- Nikki I think that the tone of the book is a bit more mixed than most books I have read in the past. At times there is a light and airy feel to this book, yet at other times it has a very serious tone. Over all, however, I think this book's mood is more along the border line of serious. This book isn't only about the romance between North and Andy, but about the safety of the children, Carter and Alice. This book is about family and ghosts and how they get through everything to make the family work. It has a serious mood to it.

==== 2. "I'm having a hard time with this," Andie said, holding onto the raveling edges of her sanity while she stared at the thing. It was a ghost. It was definitely a ghost. She was talking to a ghost. They were both ghosts. There were ghosts. We have ghosts." ====

5. "Then he'd picked up his overnight bag from where he'd left it by the door and went back upstairs to the nursery."
<span style="color: #ff7a00; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">D. Summarizer: Ashley

This week was the third week of book club. Nikki was group leader for this week. She did a good job keeping us on task. Alexis was questions and quotes for the third week of book club. She had very good questions and quotes. Her questions were detailed and led to some very good discussions between the three of us. Her quotes were very interesting. As you can see I am summarizer. This book club was successful.

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Week 4 A. Ashley This book builds very strong images. While reading this book you can picture everything that is going on. The author uses strong images. She uses these images when Andie was talking to the ghost on the bed. While reading this book,the image is so good that it makes you seem like you are there in person watching it. I think that she uses these images so that it hooks the reader. I think that the image is great in this book.

B and C. Questioner and Quote Finder 1. How do you feel about the ghost talking to her? Alexis: Creepy, but at the same time it's cool to see the way they interact Ashley: The ghost talking to her, that's creepy stuff, What kind of insane person wants to write about that?

2. What do Andie and North's Relationship? Alexis:It's weird. Ashley: I think it's getting really good. Its getting kind of intimate.

3. Do you think Andie will be able to persuade Carter and Alice to move home with her? Alexis: I doubt it. Carter and Alice are so persistent on what they want. Almost Bratty. Ashley: It's a possibility, but probably not because they are very stubborn.

4. Why do you think Andie doesn't want children even though she is obviously great with them? Alexis: She might not be able to handle her own children by herself. Ashley: She doesn't want to have her own kids because its like squeezing a watermelon out of a lemon, and she doesn't want her lemon to be stretched out to the size of a watermelon.

5. Do you think the ghosts will become dangerous later in the story? Alexis: They have gotten more and more intense through out the sentence, so probably. Ashley: Yup, I think they are going to start stabbing people.

D. Group Summarizer-Alexis
=== Today, was our fourth book club meeting. It went quite well, as Nikki was Question and Quotation Finder, Ashley was Group Leader and I am Group Summarizer. Nikki asked us many questions such as "How do you feel abut the ghost talking to Annie?" We also discussed our book, as well as having Nikki sharing her quotes. ===

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Week 5

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">A.Group Leader: Alexis As our final book discussion comes to an end we have decided that we would definitely recommend this book to others. Not only does this contain descriptive words, but it also misleading in a good way. This topic has definitely been discussed in other books as the topic is love which is commonly discussed in books. We feel that this book, should not be considered for the schools curriculum. It would be a good book to read by choice.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">B and C. Questioner and Quote Finder: Ashley <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">1. What do you think about the ending of this book? <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Alexis: It was good. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Nikki: I think that it was awesome how the author made it seem like the story was over, but then brought in another problem. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">2. After reading this book, what do you think the most shocking part was? <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Nikki: That Will turned out to be a jerk. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Alexis: The fact that Andie and North developed a strong relationship. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">3. What do you think about Andie and North's relationship? <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Alexis: It was great that they developed a strong relationship considering the fact that in the beginnning of the book, Andie despised him and her past. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Nikki: I think that they never truly fell out of love. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">4. How do you think Will felt when Andie told him they were through? <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Nikki: Pissed off. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Alexis: He felt broken inside. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">5. Would you read books by this author again and why? <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Nikki: Absolutely, I've already read 4 more by her. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Alexis: Yes because the book was well written, good descriptive words, and good turn of events. As well as being misleading and intriguing. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;"> Quotes : <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;"> "She yanked his shirt up, wanting his skin on hers, wanting all of him, and he pulled the shirt off as she shoved her jeans the rest of the way down, tangling her ankles and almost knocking herself over in Crumb's hallucinogenic pantry." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;"> "Andie kissed her check, and Alice suddenly wrapped her arms around Andie's neck and pulled her down." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> " Andie climbed the stairs and found Alice in her room, Rose Bunny under one arm, and her comforter under the other." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> " May howled, like the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss, and then Alice put the curl into the flame and held it while seared her fingers, staring at Andie, and Andie felt the flame everywhere, blue and red, and then she was back in her own body, clinging to Carter as the world swung around, and she screamed at May." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> " Including all the sex that we had on that desk. Knowing Merrill, he'll probably be critiquing your style and my thighs."

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">' <span style="color: #ff7a00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">D. Summarizer: Nikki