Kirby
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- Joined
- Apr 7, 2000
Thank you! I'm in a book club and our July pick was Slightly South of Simple by Kristy Woodson Harvey. It's part 1 of three and definitely a beach read.@Kirby , A Beach Wish by Shelley Noble. Sort of a beach read. I have 3 new books from the library for the beach.
I love walking around Barnes and Noble. I would go broke if I began buying books there! I have a stack of about 50 books waiting to be read in my craft closet. I have a number of them also sitting in my Amazon shopping list waiting for the price to come down.Speaking of books, does anyone else stockpile books?
I'll read reviews of books that sound interesting, or come across them while browsing. Then if something strikes my fancy I put it in my Amazon cart and then when I'm ready for some new books I'll go thru what I've put in there and pick a few that appeal to me at the moment.
One of my favorite pre-trip activities is a leisurely walk around the Barnes & Noble and picking up a few books for the trip.
My son, James, is dyslexic and is very good at math. In college, he was getting a mechanical engineering degree, I don't remember what higher level of math he was taking but he was working the problems out differently than the professor wanted him to and still getting them correct. He told the professor that he was dyslexic (he is) and looked at things differently so the professor told him that he didn't have a problem with how he came up with the answer but would like to see that he could do it the way he was teaching also. Not to bash teachers, my daughter is one, but I think that sometimes some of them forget that not everyone fits in the same square hole.I don't remember any particular piece of advice from a teacher. Most of the good teachers I had encouraged students to do their best and ask for help if you don't understand something. My older DS's 4th grade teacher advised me to tell him to do math the way she teaches it and no other way. He had found his own way to do math problems. I asked her if the work and the answers were correct and she said yes. I also asked if his way was considered a good way to do it too and she said yes, So I asked what the issue was. She said he wasn't doing it her way. I am not sure if she saw my eye roll! Older DS is one of those super bright people who figures things out on his own. That is the only advice I got. I did tell DS what she said but he ignored it. Can't say I didn't try! LOL!
Not sure what we are having for dinner tonight. Maybe we'll order out............