I LOVE this book. I'm about 50 pages in and can't stop reading it! I need to know which letter falls next and which words go and how they manage without it.
Of course, I've had to start keeping a dictionary nearby. I had to look up lucubrating (I can't wait to use that one on my students- it sounds so naughty and is so apt for them), sapience, and piscivorous.
What a fantastic idea. I've thought about trying not to use the letters myself as I progress through the book, but I am sure that would not go over well when trying to teach...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It was a light hearted, fun, a fast read with an interesting premise for a story. All the way through I kept thinking how hard it would be to WRITE this story without using certain letters, a lot of thesaurus use I think.
Here are the amusing parts for me:
The Village Women’s Humming Chorus
The 4:12 Walmart supply boat
“His will be done” referring to Nollop’s will. And “he who walks in the light has no reason to fear the darkness.”
The new names for the days of the week and the months with a note to parents to use flash cards to help their children learn the new names.
When the “I” was lost, ALL I could think about was the PlayTest game and the card that prohibits you from saying I, Me, of My and hard that was for us. I LOSE!
“Soon we may all have to learn Hawaiian.”
And the ending is superb. I love Ella’s idea of a sculpture – a large box filled with 60 moonshine jugs piled high, corks popping and liquor flowing. What a happy sculpture. Also, loved the very end with the computer generated sentences.
And gotta love “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.”
And lots of vocabulary (that I am not certain are “real” words). Multypewritudes Scissoresonance Delishmerelle Heavipendance Partete Concretious Elision humongolacity concomitate fenester
Look, J, you are the first to finish again! I started tabbing over every page that I wanted to comment on and eventually stopped because I was tabbing every page. I just gave up. I loved the whole book.
Other words I had to look up: deracinating concomitate
I agree with J, not all were real words.
Since I can't gush enough about my pick, I'll stop gushing all together. I love it. Period.
Finished reading the book today. A good book - good fun. And yet there were times when it made me nervous. It reminded me too much of people in Asian countries under strict Muslim and/or people living under communism or other dictatorships, who have their liberties removed, religion restricted, and properties taken away. I am so glad the story ended the way it did. It was a challenge at times reading into what they were saying as to what they would have said if they could have used the right letters. And the author even managed to get romances into the story. I enjoyed the book and am recommending it to others.
I have to apologize for not being a quick reader of this wonderful book, full of joy and moxie. (75)
I loved it! Imagine how difficult it would be to write without the letter D! Let alone speak. I don't think I could manage it. And to write this book without the modern convenience of a word processor (Find: D). Hard to fathom. The vocabulary was GREAT, I loved the made up words, the obscure words, the work-arounds, but my favorite things were the days and months of the year preceding each correspondence: Monty, No-way 6 Monty, Nostomania 6 Monty, No no, Nanette 6 Toes, Noogie 7 Toes, Noopers 7
When the townsfolk began writing their sentences I just HAD to see if I could do it too. Then I shared the challenge with my Mom; she's working on it as I type, with her key word being "zehpyr." I'm curious to see if she comes up with the same windy sentence as the book. I used 6 extra letters (A, E, O, O, T, W) and my sentence could actually be 5 depending on word order: Folks, my jacquard vixen bought two pez. My jacquard vixen bought folks two pez. Folks bought my jacquard vixen two pez. Two folks bought my jacquard vixen pez. My jacquard vixen bought two folks pez.
I do love novels in letters and this one did not dissappoint. Good pick M!
Fenester = some sort of window, from the French I think. Lots of latin and romance language synonyms coming into play!
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I LOVE this book. I'm about 50 pages in and can't stop reading it! I need to know which letter falls next and which words go and how they manage without it.
Of course, I've had to start keeping a dictionary nearby. I had to look up lucubrating (I can't wait to use that one on my students- it sounds so naughty and is so apt for them), sapience, and piscivorous.
What a fantastic idea. I've thought about trying not to use the letters myself as I progress through the book, but I am sure that would not go over well when trying to teach...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It was a light hearted, fun, a fast read with an interesting premise for a story. All the way through I kept thinking how hard it would be to WRITE this story without using certain letters, a lot of thesaurus use I think.
Here are the amusing parts for me:
The Village Women’s Humming Chorus
The 4:12 Walmart supply boat
“His will be done” referring to Nollop’s will. And “he who walks in the light has no reason to fear the darkness.”
The new names for the days of the week and the months with a note to parents to use flash cards to help their children learn the new names.
When the “I” was lost, ALL I could think about was the PlayTest game and the card that prohibits you from saying I, Me, of My and hard that was for us. I LOSE!
“Soon we may all have to learn Hawaiian.”
And the ending is superb. I love Ella’s idea of a sculpture – a large box filled with 60 moonshine jugs piled high, corks popping and liquor flowing. What a happy sculpture. Also, loved the very end with the computer generated sentences.
And gotta love “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.”
And lots of vocabulary (that I am not certain are “real” words).
Multypewritudes
Scissoresonance
Delishmerelle
Heavipendance
Partete
Concretious
Elision
humongolacity
concomitate
fenester
Great choice Melissa!
Look, J, you are the first to finish again! I started tabbing over every page that I wanted to comment on and eventually stopped because I was tabbing every page. I just gave up. I loved the whole book.
Other words I had to look up:
deracinating
concomitate
I agree with J, not all were real words.
Since I can't gush enough about my pick, I'll stop gushing all together. I love it. Period.
Finished reading the book today. A good book - good fun. And yet there were times when it made me nervous. It reminded me too much of people in Asian countries under strict Muslim and/or people living under communism or other dictatorships, who have their liberties removed, religion restricted, and properties taken away. I am so glad the story ended the way it did. It was a challenge at times reading into what they were saying as to what they would have said if they could have used the right letters. And the author even managed to get romances into the story. I enjoyed the book and am recommending it to others.
I have to apologize for not being a quick reader of this wonderful book, full of joy and moxie. (75)
I loved it! Imagine how difficult it would be to write without the letter D! Let alone speak. I don't think I could manage it. And to write this book without the modern convenience of a word processor (Find: D). Hard to fathom. The vocabulary was GREAT, I loved the made up words, the obscure words, the work-arounds, but my favorite things were the days and months of the year preceding each correspondence:
Monty, No-way 6
Monty, Nostomania 6
Monty, No no, Nanette 6
Toes, Noogie 7
Toes, Noopers 7
When the townsfolk began writing their sentences I just HAD to see if I could do it too. Then I shared the challenge with my Mom; she's working on it as I type, with her key word being "zehpyr." I'm curious to see if she comes up with the same windy sentence as the book. I used 6 extra letters (A, E, O, O, T, W) and my sentence could actually be 5 depending on word order:
Folks, my jacquard vixen bought two pez.
My jacquard vixen bought folks two pez.
Folks bought my jacquard vixen two pez.
Two folks bought my jacquard vixen pez.
My jacquard vixen bought two folks pez.
I do love novels in letters and this one did not dissappoint. Good pick M!
Fenester = some sort of window, from the French I think. Lots of latin and romance language synonyms coming into play!
The author has a Mississippi connection. We are so proud of him.
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