Jack is reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe right now. He reads it to himself every night before lights-out, and he reads a couple pages to me each day so I know he’s reading the words correctly and understands what he’s reading. He is. He does. Which is pretty amazing, if you ask [...]
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Summer Reading 3
Posted in Reading on Jul 14th, 2009
In my last post, I mentioned two literary novels that I’d read on my vacation and found…uninspiring. The second of these books was the better of the two, largely because it had an amazing ending. That richly satisfying ending transfigured the whole rest of the book, which I’d found a bit of a slog while [...]
Summer Reading 2
Posted in Reading on Jul 10th, 2009
I read two novels on my vacation at Ross Lake that would be considered “literary.” I feel like an ignorant rube, an uncultured, unrefined, uneducated boor: I don’t really like literary novels. I find them, ahem, boring. Or at least, I found these two boring. If I hadn’t been stranded in the middle of nowhere [...]