I finished reading "Slam" the other night. Great book. I recommended it to Carla as a book to read together in class with the kids. It's about a 15 year old boy who finds out his girlfriend is pregnant...right after they've broken up. It's so well written, not cheesy or preachy or over-sentimental. It deals, I think, quite realistically with that whole complicated scenario.
So...I didn't have another book lined up read. I have on my nightstand two books by Alexander McCall Smith (The Number One Ladies Detective Agency), but I wasn't in the mood for those. I started reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". I know Dhyana will kill me for reading this one and not all the previous ones, but...oh well. I have no excuse. Honestly, I tried reading the first Harry Potter book and it bored me. Not so much cuz I'd already seen the movie, but because it was written for a younger audience. The books progressively become more mature. And while I greatly admire J.K. for writing them this way and drawing in so many young readers, I just couldn't read it. After seeing "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", I became rather intrigued with the ending of the story.
I've outed myself as a fair-weather Harry Potter reader. Let the chips fall where they may!
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well I wouldn't say I'll "kill" you, I've already given up on you a bit on this. But I just think it's ridiculous how many times I have very carefully told you that I don't in fact recommend reading the first or second books, that they are exactly like the movie and kind of boring. It starts to get good on the third one. But I think your memory is getting spotty in your old age and you've somehow decided that your only options are the first one or the last one. Whatev. After your Atlas Shrugged failure I'm just letting you go on your merry way reading whatever you want since you don't listen to me anyway. But it's cool, I can't always get into all the books that people say I should either. I'll just never be able to love you like I would have otherwise.
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