Operation Read West Virginia: March 2009

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Hello West Virginia!

Hello West Virginia! I'm Nell Fleming a volunteer with Step by Step a non-for profit agency serving four counties in WV. I work as a Librarian through Americorps VISTA and will be this year's state wide book drive facilitator. As part of Operation Read West Virginia I welcome you to our new blog. Please contribute your memories of reading, personal stories and other positive contributions to our blog.
In addition visit our Operationreadwv.org web site for information on registering for annual state wide book drive at the Faces of Leadership conference July 14-16th.

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How to Use Library Thing for Big Ugly

How To Use Library Thing – Interactive (For use directly on the internet)

For a comprehensive tutorial of Library Thing cut and paste this URL into your web browser:

http://people.uwec.edu/schmidca/librarything.htm

For a Tutorial of using library thing at Big Ugly Community Center Click on the following links: (use the back button to return to the blog each time)

Home Page

How is Library Thing like Face Book

Profile Page

Your Books Page

10 For Dinner (Book we own)

Changing the cover of a book

Different styles of viewing book lists

How to Add a book

How to Add a book continued

Cover View of WishList (In Your Library)

Groups Page

What the Heck is a Zeitgeist?

Your Zeitgeist (An extremely useful tool for Energy Express!)

Books with West Virginia as a Setting (Zeitgeist info continued)

Verbie Ann Helyger's reading memories - Harambee Center

As a child Aesop and Anansi fables helped framed my social consciousness. Roman and Greek mythology read assiduously in my teen years provided metaphors for my life. Passages in the book of Isaiah stirred my passion for grand poetic prose. Then I encountered "My mother, My self". Until then, my dad was the primary attachment of my childhood. but as Nancy Friday echoed my thoughts and gave voice to my feelings, I was able to use the colors of her story to paint a new, more vibrantly colorful and complex picture of my own mother. I saw her differently and was enriched and made whole by it. Today, I willingly acknowledge her strengths and foibles as part of my identikit.When I read the "The Women's Room", my compassion for women and pride in their survival strategies grew more intense. There have been other books that helped over rough times. Other books that made my heart sing or made me very grateful that life has been so good to me. I am grateful that I read before I went to school so books have always filled my world and life. They mark my transitions through life stages and to distant places. With them, one can always find an oases and inner harmony.

Michael Tierney's reading memory

My favorite book as a child was The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright. I found it in a box in my attic. It had been given to my eldest sister (14 years older than me) by an aunt. This introduced me to The Melendy Family (previous book The Saturdays, additional sequels And Then There Were Five, and A Spiderweb for Two)four kids whose creativity was boundless,who took in a child from a troubled home, and wove mysteries for their youngest systems when they grew up and moved on. My most compelling early memory is my Mom reading all of Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner to me while I was in an oxygen tent in the hospital when I was five. I had an allergic reaction to penecillian and went into shock and they had to give me a tracheotomy and I couldn't talk or sit up for days. Mom wove the 100 acre wood around me (and slept in a chair the entire week) so I wasn't alone and Pooh, Eeyore and Piglet have been my posse ever since. (I have a picture series of Pooh over our dining table at home).

Laura's (SBS) reading memories

I think the first "novel" that I read was in second grade, and it was either "Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball" or "Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors." And the premise of these was that either a gym teacher or a janitor was suspected of being a leprechaun or santa claus. And that's about all I remember, but I do remember being very proud that I finished a real book. It was paper back, and small, one of those half photo/half illustration covers, and had the most pages that I had ever read.

Rhonda's (SBS) reading memories

Ebony Easley's (VISTA SBS) reading memory

Wow!... the first book that comes to mind when i think of my favorite early childhood story is Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. This book was so entertaining to me, for the simple fact that i could relate. I didn't want to eat eggs and ham together but the fact that it was green made it that much easier to say no to. I loved the way the book rhymed and the different ways he tried to eat it, how funny!! this guy was. Some years later i stayed the night over my cousin's and the next morning my aunt made scrambled eggs with cheese, they were soooooo good it just so happend that the secret ingredient was chopped ham, so i eventually ate it too.

David Chairez's (Deputy Director SBS) Reading memories

Robin Wilson's (VISTA SBS) reading memories

My favorite book as a kid was the Barbar the Elephant series. Especially the story where they all lived in tree houses with fanciful rope ladders. It looked so much more fun to me than regular houses. My second favorite book that stuck with me was a book called The Golaba Tree. It was published by the Cooperative League and showed how only by sharing their boxes can these two guys climb to the wonderful "golaba" fruit. A simple and corny ethic but it made sense to me as a kid who tended to take things literally.

Operation Read West Virginia

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Hello West Virginia!

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How to Use Library Thing for Big Ugly

Verbie Ann Helyger's reading memories - Harambee Center

Michael Tierney's reading memory

Laura's (SBS) reading memories

Tonya's (SBS) favorite reading memory

Ronnell's (Weberwood elementary) reading memories

Ron Fleming (Claims Supervisor) Reading Memories

Rhonda's (SBS) reading memories

Ann Johnson's (VISTA Fayette county) reading memories

Ebony Easley's (VISTA SBS) reading memory

David Chairez's (Deputy Director SBS) Reading memories

Marta Pate's (VISTA Leader SBS) reading memory

One of Nell's (VISTA librarian SBS) favorite reading memories

Robin Wilson's (VISTA SBS) reading memories

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