I finished "The Abstinence Teacher" last night. For some reason, I've been able to stay up a little longer and read than I've been able to in the past few months. I like that, especially during the summer. I haven't pulled a 3:00 am'er yet, but that's ok. It takes a really great book for that.
Anywho, "The Abstinence Teacher" really wasn't too much about the abstinence teacher. If I had to categorize her, I'd put her as the secondary character. But, I kinda liked that surprise. Where you're reading and it dawns on you "hey, wait a minute! this author just kinda tricked me!" I like that when I'm reading. Also, what could've so easily been the climax of the book, the author totally doesn't go there. The story ends right before that scene. But, again, I like that cuz that scene really is just the backdrop for the action that goes on between the characters. Sneaky.
I started reading "Rats Saw God" after that. This book is from our library at school. Carla picked it out the last time we did an all-hands library search. This is when either something comes up missing or just a random search is ordered. All of us teachers have to report to the library and search the books. All the books. ALL THE BOOKS. It's tedious, it's dusty, we hardly ever find anything except a forgotten bookmark, but we joke around and tell stories and find books we want to read. Of course these yayhoo kids wouldn't want to read any good books. They only want to read books about ganstas and romance and crap. They just don't know what they're missing. We have an awesome library for the size of our school. This year, I'd say about a third of the books I've read came from our library. Mr. Dan, our principal, said we have to go thru the library next year and pull out books that the kids don't read to make room for ones they will read. I say we start a staff library with all those books I know will get weeded out. They'll be all the good ones that I want to read.
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I hope you like Rats Saw God. It was funny and really enjoyable and not in a lurid trashy novel kind of way, but more in a wow, I'd like to meet that kid. I agree about the library. We could have Eight Ball, This Gangsta's Life, White Oleander, and The Hole in My Life, Tyrell and be done. We'd need about 20 copies of each because they'd all like to read them at the same time. Why do they all have to be little thugs...oh wait I forgot that's where we work. :)
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