Status Updates From Throwing Shadows

Picking up some books on my shelf I’ve never read. I’ve enjoyed E.L. Konigsberg in the past.

"'It was easy. Her husband had never met me, and besides, in a Communist country there are some things that wives never tell even their husbands, and there are other things that wives especially never tell their husbands'" (105). Hah!

"He put his arm around my shoulder as we began to walk home and he said, 'You know, Avery, if Miss Elkins were walking out of the Remington and a breeze blew her skirts way up past Schenectady, I wouldn't bother to look past New Rochelle'" (34).

"Mom smiled her customer smile and said, 'We are having very busy day, please to excuse if I continue with work.'

'That's perfectly all right,' President Bob said. 'You're excused.' Then he sat down at the table Mom was wiping off. He held up the placemat and said, 'Over here, Mama-san. You missed a spot'" (14).

the is mostly about a boy that was in collage and soon later he meet the president Bob, the leader of the collage that his in.Then president Bob, he gave a scholarship to he."This is the best day ever!"

So far, she's written as a half-Thai boy in a southern coastal town, a black boy in a small town, an Ecuadoran girl who speaks Spanish and English and a boy who speaks Quechua and Spanish in Central America, and now she's on to a Ukrainian. Geez! (but it's great so far)

Really excellent.Perfect for my freshmen, I think.