This time of year, I always have to read something dark. Not horror per se -- not horror at all, at least by my definition!
Right now I'm rereading Wuthering Heights on books on tape. Amazing how gripping I still find it -- and this is, what, the fifth time through it now?
And I just checked out a couple of collections of Ray Bradbury stories from the library, because I really want to reread "The October Game" -- I think that's what it's called. Okay, that one is a very scary story, but I do love it!
I also checked out a collection of Victorian ghost stories. Love the old-fashioned stuff, where atmosphere is everything and it's not a big gore-fest. Hate that kind of thing.
I enjoy a good scare (in print), but with all this Greek tragedy I thought I'd bring something a bit lighter into the house for the girls. We're enjoying reading Nesbit's "The Enchanted Castle" written in 1904 and still a great read. It includes magic and the Ugly Wuglies are fairly frightening. My 6-year-old is quite into it. I keep finding her curled up on the couch reading when I rise...and I don't sleep THAT late!
She's actually become a rabid reader. Earlier this week she wanted to read after breakfast. Who am EYE to tell her no?! So, I told her she could read as long as she wanted to do so. We had no other plans that day (other than our typical schooling stuff...you know, experiments, hands-on stuff). Three hours later she was still reading. She completed two and a half "American Girl" paperbacks before finally deciding it was time to get dressed, maybe it some lunch and, oh yea, weren't we going to build a loom today?
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Jen in Orcutt, Calif.
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Hey, we love Nesbit! We read "Five Children and It" last year and I ended up having to do this big old inter-library loan dealie to find the two sequels. Haven't read The Enchanted Castle yet.
Right now my son is still not doing much reading on his own, but we just started "The Hobbit" together. Bilbo just got clonked unconscious in the goblin caves. My son is enthralled, and I'm remembering the first time I read it, when I wasn't much older than he is.
My eyes are shutting of their own accord, but just wanted to check in and let you know I'm still here! I see you've posted a bunch of other stuff, and I'm looking forward to checking it out!
Deborah - Glad you wrote a note. I wondered what had become of you! (As if EYE am the most active person here. HAH!)
We've almost wrapped "The Enchanted Castle." My DD, however, doesn't believe with sticking with one book 'til it's through, now. She has one for each corner of the house plus one in the car. So she's been reading "Robinson Crusoe" to us in the car, "Kit" (American Girl) again on the top bunk middays, Nesbit on the couch. There's the newspaper on the kitchen table in any given day (though she really only goes for comics and the kids' page that runs Thursdays - just fine with me), plus "365 Bedtime Stories" in our bedroom. Craziness!
Hmmm... I wonder where she gets it. On my desk is "Oedipus the King," my basket by the couch "Long Strokes in a Short Season" (I coach high school swimming), in the car "Women Who Run With the Wolves," not to mention the STACK of magazines I've not touched in months. (I suppose THAT has something to do with all this other, much more interesting reading!)
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Jen in Orcutt, Calif.
www.BestFamilyAdventures.com
Jen wrote: On my desk is "Oedipus the King," my basket by the couch "Long Strokes in a Short Season" (I coach high school swimming), in the car "Women Who Run With the Wolves," not to mention the STACK of magazines I've not touched in months.
OK...with no new assignments from Demon Readers (and a VERY long train trip) I was able to catch up with that bin of backlogged magazines. I'm almost finished with "Wicked" and wonder what our next read might be.
Oh...sure...there are holiday plans to be made, cookies to bake, cards to send, and plenty more, but what else will we be reading?
Is anyone out here?
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Jen in Orcutt, Calif.
www.BestFamilyAdventures.com
Hi I'm new here, and don't know what you all have read, but I just rediscovered Esther Friesner's SF/F, specifically the Majyk series, which includes an inept wizard and a cat with a lot of 'tude. (Is there any other kind?) Let me know if my idea is completely unacceptable or maybe I'm in the wrong group or even, hey good idea!
And yes Jen, I'm here! A transplanted native Californian luxuriating in green Wisconsin, whose major downside is humidity, which I knew very little of in California!
-- Edited by Friesnerette on Sunday 13th of September 2015 11:41:42 PM
