I started The Passage and was enjoying it but then got distracted by the new Gail Carriger and never got back to it. (But I could. . . if only it were a less heavy book to carry on the bus. .. )

Cronin's is a long movie treatment and he's hoping the casting and director will complete the characters.

Ridley Scott has the film rights, so good luck with that.

if only it were a less heavy book to carry on the bus...

Yeah, I was carrying it on my stairway walk today and that became old real fast.

Hmmm, news from NYCC - GRRM is really, truly almost done with A Dance with Dragons.

I might be raising my child wrong.

We've started reading the Narnia books, and Mal's way into them. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book he's let me read to him, without trying to make up the story himself. So that's good.

But while he recognized Tumnus as a Faun from the description, and is down with Dryads and dwarves and witches, he has no idea why the human kids are called "Sons of Adam" or "Daughters of Eve."

Reading - it's educational for everybody.

But while he recognized Tumnus as a Faun from the description, and is down with Dryads and dwarves and witches, he has no idea why the human kids are called "Sons of Adam" or "Daughters of Eve."

Bwahahaha!

Dylan might have trouble there too, now that I think about it. Not that I'm in any hurry for him to read the Narnia books anyway - they were never favorites of mine.

Hahaha, don't worry Raq, i was raised Christian and still took a few days before that reference "clicked" and i realised that the story was going all biblical on me. (No one had warned me that CS Lewis was writing xian propaganda, i just came across the books while babysitting.)

Hee.

As non-religious as I am now, one of my favorite books as a kid was The Golden Children's Bible. Nicely illustrated, and collected the Bible into easy-to-understand individual stories. Also, it was the only thing my mom would let me read during Mass until I had my First Communion, and then after that, I was stuck with just the hymnal.

As non-religious as I am now, one of my favorite books as a kid was The Golden Children's Bible. Nicely illustrated, and collected the Bible into easy-to-understand individual stories.

Same here. I read that at the same time I read the Usborne Norse Myths and Legends [link] which might explain a lot about my belief system, actually.

Oh, I loved my Golden Children's Bible. It turned out to be an unexpected help years later when I was an English major--sometimes I'd be the only person in a seminar of 20+ who could point to this or that element of an 18th-mid-20th century novel and say, "Oh, that's a reference to/retelling of/reaction against [insert Bible story here]." It's right up there with Shakespeare in the You don't have to like it personally, but you damn well better know the general outline of the stories if you want to get half the references and backstories in Western literature category.

Speaking of which, I still love you, Charles and Mary Lamb.