And also FML, which I really don't see as effective marketing for detergent.
Oz ,'Storyteller'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
(After googling P&G products) maybe for Pepto-bismol?
FML is for Pampers commercials.
I decided to start reading the Prydain Chronicles to Rose tonight. We read the first chapter of The Book of Three, and she seemed to like it, though I'm not sure she was really following the story. After she went to bed, I sat and read/skimmed through the whole book, and was delighted to find that it was just as good as I remembered. I loved those books so much as a kid.
I loved those books so much as a kid.
I know we've talked about this before, but yeah. Me too.
OMG. Yes. Now I want to pick up Taryn Wanderer again.
My first exposure to Prydain was actually this old Black Cauldrom video game, which my brother and I were never able to get get anywhere on. It was hard! At least we thought so. I'm actually surprised I ever got over it to read the books.
What a lovely appreciation of Joan Aiken: [link]
I started reading Harry Potter to Calvin a few days ago. He's too young for some of the later books, but I think in a slow read aloud way he will be able to enjoy the first one. We've only done the first chapter, and he didn't quite follow it - I'd forgotten how much that chapter is almost entirely about voice and atmosphere. I expect once the parseltongue and owls kick in he'll be a bit more into it, but it is so ridiculously compelling from the get-go to me. I feel like I never gave JK Rowling enough credit for her word-craft back when I devoured the books, but that chapter just has voice coming out of its bottom. And Britishiness. It's like a slightly less funny (though still pretty funny) Hitchhiker's Guide, with Mr. Dursley playing the role of a less likable Arthur Dent.
Tonight I had the bright idea to get the books in Portuguese as well, and installed a Portuguese-English dictionary on my Kindle, so after I read to him in English I will follow it up later that night or the next day in Portuguese for myself. I expect that will help me build some vocabulary! (I live in Brazil now, in case this feels like a complete non sequitur to anybody reading).
You live in Brazil, Gris?! How did that happen? And omg hoe old is your kiddo now??