Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series was one of the formative series of my life. In Junior High, I was in the advanced classes and was expected to read a lot of books I don’t remember. While on the bus going home one day, I saw one of my friends, who was in the regular English class, reading one of his assigned books. It was called Dragonsong. I was entranced and it was all I could do not to snatch it out of his hands. Fortunately, my […]
Oh Susannah Mio
Ah, Song of Susannah — probably the weakest link in the Dark Tower series, but still vital to the overall story line, since basically sets up the entire ending. But still. It’s not the greatest. “You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism.” At the end of Wolves of the Calla, Susannah […]
Not just Coyote
So it turns out that I have downloaded/bought about eleventybillion titles for my Kindle and read less than half of them (I don’t feel too guilty about this, because books and also because a lot of them were freebies). Despite that lack of guilt, I’ve decided I need to go through and, well, make my way through all of them. At least in this case it wasn’t a total mistake.
Seriously, these kids need a break.
Some books are made for reading aloud. And if you’re lucky enough to have a little(ish) one around to read aloud to, wonderful things can happen. This summer, my 9-year-old niece was having a hard time finishing her copy of The Secret Garden, so she brought it downstairs and we sat on the couch and read it aloud together. When we finished that, I searched the library for something I thought would be a good next book, and I remembered the Lemony Snicket books, of […]