I'm Sally Apokedak, and I
live with my son and my
daughter and my old, old
mother, in the lovely city of
Atlanta.
Born to missionary
parents, I spent my early
years in Taiwan. By the time
I was six, I'd been around
the world. The wanderlust
I acquired early followed me
into adult life, taking me to
work in places as far-flung as
Barrow, Alaska, and Santa
Cruz, Bolivia.
My most fulfilling job,
though, was staying home,
taking care of my family. My
husband was a quadriplegic
and we adopted two children.
You can read more about
me on my bio page.
I'm represented by
Reclaim Management.
54000 / 80000 words.
68% done on my WIP!
I'm talking about life and
children's books, because
the two seem to get all
tangled up together for me.
I've loved both--the life
and the books--ever since
I was...well...a child.
I review books that I
have bought or borrowed
or begged. Sometimes I
beg them from authors
and publishers.
No matter where I get
books, I always give my
honest opinion when I
write reviews. I am not
qualified to review books,
really. I'm just a reader
with strong opinions. I love
talking about what I read
and want to get others
excited about children's
books, too.
Many links on this blog
lead to Amazon.com. If you
like my reviews and you
click on a book title or
cover picture and then buy
the book (or anything else)
from Amazon, I will get a
small percentage of the
sale price. Feel free to do
that. It helps support my
book-buying habit. I made
about thirty bucks this way
last year.
Very cute, Ms. Children’s Lit Expert. Who’s gonna beat you on that one? Hahah. Fun stuff. But I do wonder about some of that being classified as children’s.
Becky
I played just to see how the questions were but I’m not going to count my scores. I’m not all that much of an expert, though. And I agree that some of the questions weren’t about children’s lit. I don’t know what happened.
I can make up my own questions but I don’t have time to do that every day. I just thought this would be kind of fun. Cheryl has hers set up as a Bible Trivia game it’s a great way to spend a couple of hundred seconds.
The only ones I knew for sure were who wrote Catcher in the Rye and the glass slipper for Cinderella. I guessed on the others I got right.
Not too good. :-(
Hmmm there’s trouble in River City. I don’t recall any questions on Cinderella or Catcher in the Rye. I wonder if it’s giving each player different questions?
That isn’t what it’s supposed to do.
And, Becky, here’s what an expert I am on children’s books. Today my sister is reading my home page and she says, “It’s not Robinson Caruso, it’s Robinson Crusoe.” You know, it’s one of those things the spell checker doesn’t catch so it’s been up spelled wrong for three months. Doh!
ha ha.
And I didn’t catch it because all my life I’ve called him, in my head, Robinson Caruso. LOL Yep, I’m the expert, alright. I did know the name of the author if that counts for anything. Probably can’t spell it, though. DeFoe? =0) Nope, just went and checked and the F is not capitalized.
so there ya go.
It asked about Catcher in the Rye, Cinderella, Watership Down, and several books I have never heard of. Apparently it does alter the quiz.
OK yesterday was just a practice run. I took it again tonight and there were all kinds of questions about adult books. So I reset the questions. Only now we’ll probably get a lot of Harry Potter questions because there were so many HP categories. We’ll see how it goes. So whoever hasn’t read the Potter books will probably be a disadvantage.