Dad didn't do voices so much as intonation. Though I can hear his Gollum, slowly, slithery, lispy in my head...

I love the Tomorrow books, and I wouldn't say they drop off, exactly. The last book has to wrap up the action and try to move them towards the new normal life. I have mixed feelings about the second series, and it was definitely more depressing. I've read the Tomorrow books several times too.

I nearly grabbed The Witching Hour for bathttime last night.

FEAR THE TEPPY-JILLI MIND MELD. FEAR US.

WE WILL READ THE SAME BOOKS AND WREAK HAVOC!

I have even bought audiobooks of books I've already read (Barrayar, The Curse of Chalion, Small Gods) because I find it soothing to listen to them.

That I do. I like Alexander McCall Smith for that, especially.

There were two books I remembered liking a lot when I read them in 4th grade, but couldn't remember the titles of later. Google helped me figure out they were Owls in the Family and Follow My Leader.

I wonder how they will hold up to re-reading.

I love the Tomorrow books, and I wouldn't say they drop off, exactly. The last book has to wrap up the action and try to move them towards the new normal life.

They do have to do that, yes. I just don't find the sequence with the POW camp all that pleasant. It all gets a bit more grim in the last one, I guess, as you start to see what the new status quo will be.

Ginger, did you hear that if this movie does well, they'll be making it a trilogy? Interesting.

dcp, is Follow My Leader about the kid blinded by a firecracker who gets a guide dog? I loved that one. And really took to heart the "don't play with leftover firecrackers on July fifth!" message. It was a nice little lesson for kids in perceiving life from a blind person's POV, while retaining the kid's personality.

I highly recommend finding a copy with lots of notes.

Thanks, Laga. I live near a university, so this shouldn't be hard.

That is exactly my problem, well, the biggest, with AMS.(I enjoyed the Number 1 *show* so much more than the books...Jill Scott was great) But really? Soothing mysteries? ur kinda doin it wrong. Also words that sound right coming out of Africans seem strange when a white guy puts in on the page. Although Pelecanos is absolutely a white guy(although first time I did check) who writes black people, and I fangirl all over him. But it only rarely feels like he writes dialect, which generally makes me uncomfortable. Huh, maybe he is not only soothing then.

I'm currently reading The Body Artist by Don DeLillo. It's very intersting, and I just loved the opening section with the description of a typical breakfast between the couple. The stops and starts of conversations with questions unanswered or unheard seemed much more realistic to me than most dialogue one finds in novels.