Hanna's Daughters it is

Alrighty,
I think we should read Hanna's Daughters first.
I guess everybody needs to get a Copy.
So, once you get a Copy we can all start reading and discussing. I can't wait.
Oh, and post on how you think we should run this Book Club! Also, does anybody know how to get a cool template for free for this Blog?

Time to choose a Book

So, I think it's time to select a Book to read. Don't you all agree? Now, I don't know what kind of Books you guys prefer but I selected a few that I've been wanting to read.
Here's a List of Books I think would be great. Of course everybody is more than welcome to make their own selections.

• Noah Gordon - The Rabbi
• Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
• Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Marianne Fredriksson - Hanna's Daughters
• Marianne Fredriksson - Simon's Family

There you go. Let me know which one all of you'd like to read.

My first reading experience with my mother

(This post was first published in Residual Matters)

I have no remembrance of any preschool books in my younger years, I don’t remember if my mother bought me even a single one. However, I do remember I get hold of ABAKADA (first reading publication in grade school) in my first grade.

My imagination was showing me an illustration of a mother and child having a journey through reading a simple Filipino alphabet, wearing happy faces as they seem to be. But the story that my mother once told me disrupted my thoughts.

All were left was a child crying. I didn’t know why I was crying then.

My mother told me, I cried because she was so mad because I couldn’t read the letter K so I asked her, and she didn’t like that I couldn’t read it. She was mad at me as much as she was mad at herself.

Because she also, can’t read some letters in the book. That’s what she told me later, when I was old enough to understand.

Of course, we didn’t believe her. The we are I and my two other sisters.

“How could that be? It’s just a simple K, I don’t think you can’t read it. You finished grade 2 at least you can read simple alphabet. Don’t be too hard on yourself mother.” my sister blurted.

“Okay, maybe I can read that. But I was too busy thinking how can I give you a decent meal instead of tutoring you with the things I didn’t even experience. When I was your age that time, I need to leave the classroom because I have to assist my father to plant seeds in the farm. While the kids my age was enjoying the school, I was farming.” cried my mother.

First Post for the Book Club!

Hey!
I just wanna say Hi to everybody and say that I can't wait to get to read some good Books.

Everybody,
is anybody willing to do us a Banner or something like it?
Also, we need some suggestions for the First Book we wanna read!