My rules?
1. All content must be appropriate for children in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. NEW 2. Please link to your original content, not the content of others. 3. Websites that you link to must be child friendly since lots of kids visit this site and if they click on your link, I want it to be appropriate for them. 4. Positive reviews only, please... we only spread love here at The Lemme Library! 5. Books must be available in The US. (you are welcome to link to ARC reviews)6. I reserve the right to remove any reviews that don't meet criteria 1-5.
In the link title field, be sure to include the title of the book you are reviewing and your site name. In the URL field, please link to this specific post that contains the book review (That way people don't have to scour your blog looking for it!)
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For
newcomers & visitors: Definition of "Book Talk" from Wikipedia: "A
booktalk in the broadest terms is what is spoken with the intent to
convince someone to read a book. The booktalker gives the audience a
glimpse of the setting, the characters, and/or the major conflict without providing the resolution or denouement.
Booktalks make listeners care enough about the content of the book to
want to read it. A long booktalk is usually about five to seven minutes
long and a short booktalk is generally thirty seconds to two minutes
long.
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Pro-Cras-Ti-Nation. That is an ever present thing for me. If it wasn't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done. Seriously. Book Talk Tuesday, for example. Last week, I knew it had to be done, but I waited and I waited- and before I knew it, I was 24 hours late. Then, I felt guilty. Then I had to apologize to all of my loyal readers who missed it. Then I ended up with 8 lovely posts (lovely as they were, it was only 8.) That is what procrastination does to me on a daily, hourly basis. Then, today, I saw this video. This video explains that we procrastinate because we don't care about our future selves- so what if future Kelly has to bust her but to get Book Talk Tuesday posted tomorrow- present day Kelly is havin' a blast. The video explains that you have to fight the urge to blow off the future you- and feel bad for her (or him) so that you might actually get things done before you have to. I am going to work very hard at thinking about thinking this week- and trying to NOT procrastinate. I did the dishes early today (before dinner) and I am posting BTT now, 2 small steps for mankind, 2 huge steps for me.... future Kelly. Watch this video and let me know your reaction. Do you procrastinate? How do you avoid it?
I’m a huge procrastinator. I don’t fight it. I just spend a lot of time feeling guilty.
ReplyDeleteThis week’s link is a picture book with very few words.
What a great video! Fab!
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PS: I postponed so many important things to watch it
PS: Just kidding!
I'm trying very hard not to procrastinate. :)
ReplyDeleteProcrastinate? Who, me?
ReplyDeleteThanks again for hosting Book Talk Tuesday! Our contribution this week is a review of a book of funny, relate-able kids' poetry by author Erik Korhel, and the illustrations are great! Let us know what you think. (We like comments too.)
-Jenny and Ruby
Our Time in Juvie (book reviews/recommendations)
Hi, Kelly. I also procrastinated and now know I won't have time to post something new for this Book Talk Tuesday. So I am posting something I wrote about this time last year. I also find that deadlines are very motivating for me. Without them, not sure how much I would actually get done :)
ReplyDeleteI'm a terrible terrible procrastinator. It's awful! Love the video. Now to figure out how to combat myself. :oP
ReplyDeleteThanks for tweeting me a reminder. Time differences are my excuse for forgetting more than I'd like to!
ReplyDeleteI almost commented last night. Decided to wait until today. Har har!
ReplyDeleteThanks for BTT!
Thanks for all the tweets for weeks-- Finally linking up a review from my blog. Adele is a ten yr old student so hope it is okay for her post to be included.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm a sporadic procrastinator-- it seems to come in waves for me.
Thanks for hosting!
Procrastinator? Not so much as really busy. I once wrote a blog post in which I was interrupted more times than the number of words in the the published product. :-)
ReplyDeleteHi, Kelly! We don't have any traditional book reviews from this last week, so I posted a link to a post where we recommend HOW TO ROCK BRACES AND GLASSES by Meg Haston and also have a video and interview with her (plus a book giveaway). It's definitely beyond the kind of book review I normally post for Book Talk Tuesday, but it occurred to me that it's the sort of thing that might really get a kid excited to read a particular book. Anyway, that was my thinking. Feel free to remove the link if you feel it's too far afield from a traditional book talk!
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I'm late adding our link from Tuesday! Glad you are doing this to connect all these great blogs together! Our review on Tuesday was a great non-fiction picture book about the Empire State Building!
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