Last week LB and I went to see Kung Fu Panda at the theater. It was cute. The hero is a panda raised by a goose. The villain is a snow leopard raised by a brown panda (LB had to explain what he was; I'd never seen one before). The story is very similar to the Monkey King, at least in the travel companions and the scroll. I won't say more-don't want to give it away.
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I am reading Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft and, when it arrives, will also read Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents. Both are about adopting older children and how to recognize attachment problems, signs of grieving and loss, and parenting the hurt child. The only recent reading has been on my part, and that was in Kentucky reading AP US history essays. This year there were 1250 of us for US, 1100 for English Literature, plus foreign language and calculus teachers (I might have missed some). Lunch time is like cattle call. I had an awesome roommate from Mobile, AL and a great table made up of readers from CA (two), CO, NE, TX (there's always one from Texas) and FL. G bought a book for me about the Adams dynasty last Christmas or the one before. He is now reading it himself and every morning he watches an episode of the HBO John Adams show. I've been watching it with him as I get ready for work. This week is school vacation, it is going to rain almost every day, so I'm going to try to tape some episodes for use in history class next year. I could never use it all, it's too long, but parts of it could be really helpful. G is currently reading a book on Daniel Boone which he says is overdone. When he is through with this one, he wants to look for a gangster book-Machine Gun Kelly or Bugsy Moran. He always scoffs my history book club flyers from the mailbox and reads through all the listings before letting me know that they came in the mail. Some books that he really enjoyed in his western collection recently (he is always up for western history) are Kansas Charley, Doc Holliday, and Billy the Kid. |