So Jamie is on the last Harry Potter book now, which is some huge number of pages, 850 or something. It's been impressive watching him tear through it. We've been reading it to him at night but frankly that's 10-12 pages at a clip, the rest he;s doing by himself. It's this wonderful moment where he takes every spare minute he can to read. They're doing testing at school this week and he's been taking the book in with him and reading when he's finished with the sections of the test and has a few minutes. Then he gets home and plops down on the floor to read. Why the floor is preferable I don't know. He also favors reading with the lights off using a flashlight.
I think he's really into the story, in fact I'm sure of it, but there is something of a sense of doing it for the sake of doing it involved. Yesterday he plopped down in the driveway to read when we got home, because he said he was on page 598 and he had promised himself to get to 600 before he came home, so he wouldn't come in the door until he'd read two more pages. The other fact here is that he wants to see the movies. We've said that he can't see the movie of something until he's read the book, so that's been a big part of the motivation, there's no denying it.
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We have the same "No movie until you've read the book" rule. We had to hurry Miss A. through "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" so we could all watch "Hugo" together.
How did you like the movie T?
We loved it, although it's a pretty hard book to compete with. I think we all still prefer the book to the movie, but on the whole, the changes they made were sensible ones. And visually, it was a stunning film. Did you guys see it? And have you read the book with the boys?
Just read a book called "Alex and the Ironic Gentleman" to the kids. I think it would tickle your funny bone as much as it did mine. And there's a sequel called "Timothy and the Dragon's Gate." We do love a good sequel in our house.
Miss you guys!!!
No we haven't but are looking forward to them. Thanks for the other recs, will definitely check them out. Yes, sequels are crucial. I'm just happy that he's in this reading mode now since we're going to traveling a lot this summer. I think it's going to make my life a lot easier...
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