I haven't read The Lovely Bones yet but thought it sounded as if it would suit Kevin (just turned 12) and she was hooked! She's more than ready to get into adult literature and I've told her she's welcome to roam the bookshelves at home but she'd rather talk to the pervs on the Pokemon forums.
Boy womble (12) finished reading it by about 6pm yesterday evening, said it was very good. It was useful to keep him in one place while mini-womble and I did the Bournemouth RFL! Even my parents seemed ok at the idea that he wouldn't move!! Which he didn't. I have some before and after photos of him at the race, the difference will be the amount of pages moving to the 'read' side of the book. Mini-womble is only in the second hundred pages so far and I've only just started the first chapter. That makes three copies in our family, two from Borders in Kingston at midnight and one from Amazon via a very smily postman, apparently.
I read the first four in one go over a couple of weeks and thought they were very well written. If it's raining tonight might give Monday night club running a miss....
I read the first four non-stop over a week or so too. Then I read them all over again straight away.
Despite the general darkness and the sometimes floppy prose, there are many fantastic set-pieces in HP5, reminding me of what got me hooked in the first place. And lots of evidence of a brilliant imagination at work, even if the mysterious prophecy turns out to be a "yeah, right, like, so who didn't guess that several books ago?" moment.
It's Orwellian. I love Orwell. In fact, I wonder whether Kevin could cope with Nineteen Eighty Four or Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She read Animal Farm a couple of years ago but was too young to appreciate what it was about.
Today 3 of 8 people in the tube were reading the new Harry Potter book. Mine is at home because I do not like to stop in the middle of a chapter. I am at page 111 but I already know who will die since it was a headline in a German online newspaper. I will never read them again (until I finished the book).
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I read the first four in one go over a couple of weeks and thought they were very well written. If it's raining tonight might give Monday night club running a miss....
Despite the general darkness and the sometimes floppy prose, there are many fantastic set-pieces in HP5, reminding me of what got me hooked in the first place. And lots of evidence of a brilliant imagination at work, even if the mysterious prophecy turns out to be a "yeah, right, like, so who didn't guess that several books ago?" moment.
It's Orwellian. I love Orwell. In fact, I wonder whether Kevin could cope with Nineteen Eighty Four or Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She read Animal Farm a couple of years ago but was too young to appreciate what it was about.
But would really, really, really like to know who dies....anybody gonna tell me?
Wolfy, why do you care?
Gavo, why am I interested, dunno I was just dying to know for some daft reason.
Bought Mr Wolf the book and might bribe him now for all sorts of nice pressies, if he doesn't buy I tell him the gossip!
hmm some Tiffany earrings I think!
Tee hee
Oooh - Gavo - ask him what the time is !
Tee hee hee !
I am at page 111 but I already know who will die since it was a headline in a German online newspaper. I will never read them again (until I finished the book).
BTW I think your pic looks like one of the women that used to be in Notts Landing (spelling was a bit before my time!).