[Tektalkdiscussion] Accessible World presents Romance literature, may 15th

[Bob Acosta]

    News Wire,


  How does the marriage of parents affect our own view of romance and  love? What happens to you when the parents you love don't seem to love each other any more? What happened to all their dreams and how does that impact on yours? When bitter silences and angry words are all you see of the love that used to be, who can you talk to? What can you do when you find yourself attracted to the new  manyour mother is  beginning to love? Should you betray her and tell your father? Does he know already?   What do you owe to your mother, your father, yourself?



  In The Starlite Drive-in, a debut novel by Marjorie Reynolds, 12 year old Callie Anne Benton deals with all those questions. She learns about the tendrness of love, but she learns that love in reality is vastly different from our dreams. That long ago summer changed her life and gave her a view of life and love that would change her forever.



  Below is a review from the School Library Journal of this lovely novel. It is available on bookshare.org or in Braille through the National Library Service. Join me to discuss a family that will touch your heart and bring tears to your eyes. .  



  From School Library Journal
  During the long, hot summer of 1956 in rural Indiana, Callie Anne Benton, almost 13, is stuck at home on the grounds of the Starlite Drive-in. Her agoraphobic mother has not left the house in five years, trapping her embittered father, who manages the facility, in a job he has grown to hate. Callie Anne is happiest when she is watching movies with her father in the projection booth. The arrival of a drifter, Charlie Memphis, hired to work at the drive-in, promises to make the summer more bearable. Callie Anne, at first enamored of his charms, grows alarmed as she watches the man's kindness toward her mother and the growing relationship between the two. When he coaxes Teal out of the house and perhaps out of her husband's life, Callie Anne is faced with some difficult choices. A disastrous turn of events teaches her the complexities of love and loss. Young adults will enjoy this study of divided loyalties, told in the voice of the grown-up Callie Anne, as she tries to sort out the secrets of that tumultuous summer. 

  Pat Bangs, Fairfax County Public Library, VA



  The Group will meet at the same time, the third Friday of every month. You can write to me, 

  Bonnie Blose at: Bookmaven at hughes.net.



  Date: Friday, May 15th, 2009 



  Time:  6:00 p.m. PDT, 7:00 p.m. MDT, 8:00 p.m. CDT, 9:00 p.m. EDT

             and elsewhere in the world Saturday 1:00 GMT.



  Approximately 15 minutes prior to the event start time; go to Romance Literature Room at:



  http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsfd8219297b18



  Or, alternatively,



  Select The Romance Literature Room at: http://www.accessibleworld.org. Enter your first and last names on the sign-in screen.



  All online interactive programs require no password, are free of charge,
   and open to anyone worldwide having an Internet connection, a computer,
   speakers, and a sound card. Those with microphones can interact audibly
   with the presenters and others in the virtual audience.



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  Robert Acosta, Chair

  Accessible World

  818-998-0044

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  Joann Becker, Events Coordinator

  Accessible World

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  George Buys, CEO.

  TalkingCommunities 

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