tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post115868515629493268..comments2024-03-10T14:07:40.468-04:00Comments on Blue Rose Girls: Blow Out the MoonBlue Rose Girlshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05224076615462128422noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1158769907800512052006-09-20T12:31:00.000-04:002006-09-20T12:31:00.000-04:00Please chime in anytime Jennifer, we love hearing ...Please chime in anytime Jennifer, we love hearing other people's comments!Anna Alterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16158290821419472185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1158766239125388692006-09-20T11:30:00.000-04:002006-09-20T11:30:00.000-04:00I love eavesdropping on the Blue Rose Girls' conve...I love eavesdropping on the Blue Rose Girls' conversations, and I feel awkward interrupting here. But I must tell Libby, too, how much my children and I loved Blow Out the Moon. (I even mentioned it in my blog last month.) When we started getting to the end we slowed down to make it last. But Libby's name still comes up often. Just this morning my girls were laughing again about the crunchy, snotty hankerchief!<BR/><BR/>It was a fabulous book, Libby. I know we'll be reading again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1158696756580574682006-09-19T16:12:00.000-04:002006-09-19T16:12:00.000-04:00Oh no Libby, I can't believe you thought that! I w...Oh no Libby, I can't believe you thought that! I was quiet when everyone talked about it before because I was embarrissed I hadn't read it yet. And then when I started it a little while ago I had already started 2 other books... and as I said I am SO slow. <BR/><BR/>But this weekend it was sunny and beautiful out, so I took your book to the pond and read it in two days (finishing today at breakfast)- a record for me!Anna Alterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16158290821419472185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1158690104761022292006-09-19T14:21:00.000-04:002006-09-19T14:21:00.000-04:00I just read this and (of course) I am crying. Than...I just read this and (of course) I am crying. Thank you, Anna, and thank you Alvina -- and you're right, it does remind me of when we first read that review and realized that someone else -- someone besides us -- got it. But this means more,much more, because Anna is my friend (and for another reason too: read on!).<BR/><BR/>It is a strange modern world, to be communicating this to a friend AND to everyone else out there --but that is what writers and artists do: blab things out, put ourselves and our feelings out there, sometimes appropriately and sometimes not. It is our strength and our weakness.<BR/><BR/>So here goes: I thought Anna didn't like my book. (I knew she had started it.) In the usual artist's way -- written down, this sounds crazy, but it's true -- I thought that the book was boring and not as good as I had thought it was!<BR/><BR/>Boy, was that hard to write. <BR/><BR/>But as it turns out, Anna DID like the book -- and this seems tied to Grace's blog yesterday in ways I can't articulate right now. They have to do with all the ways we artists are NOT Zen, the ways we create stories (not stories on paper but stories in our heads to punish and berate ourselves).<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Anna. I am glad you are my friend. And *I* will blog about our friend Alvina next week (tomorrow is for those beginnings). You are right about her observant sensitive invisible hand. I am so lucky to have such friends!Libby Koponenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508041827996196293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1158689581659314442006-09-19T14:13:00.000-04:002006-09-19T14:13:00.000-04:00ditto! I love Blow Out the Moon! It's so great, co...ditto! I love Blow Out the Moon! It's so great, completely captures a child's perspective and inspiration for my own writing. <BR/><BR/>And I love how Libby still have the teacups and teapots that I thought she had broken in the book...Grace Linhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18129288262225671104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1158686834055003412006-09-19T13:27:00.000-04:002006-09-19T13:27:00.000-04:00Alvina! I wanted to praise you too, for editing th...Alvina! I wanted to praise you too, for editing the book so perfectly, but I thought I would save that for a different day. Though it doesn't seem right not to mention you here, since I could feel your presence in the book too. Nothing was overstated or underplayed, you could tell there was an observant, sensitive invisible hand.Anna Alterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16158290821419472185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31911817.post-1158685928760163132006-09-19T13:12:00.000-04:002006-09-19T13:12:00.000-04:00Wow, Anna, reading this almost made me cry, I can ...Wow, Anna, reading this almost made me cry, I can only imagine how it will make Libby feel. It was like how we felt when we read the wonderful review from Education Oasis and the star from Booklist--knowing that there were other readers out there who "got" it--who experienced the book as it was intended to be experienced. It doesn't happen all the time. Thank you for this, Anna. And thank you for writing the beautiful book, Libby!alvinalinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503984086482905226noreply@blogger.com