Speaking of books - I was speaking of books a moment ago, wasn't I? - Cheryl got James the Dangerous Book for Boys, which is a real hoot. Wish I'd had the book when I was a kid. Sort of a "Everything You Need to Know in Order to be A Real Boy" kind of thing. Unless you were growing up in the Thirties, in which case you already knew all that stuff. Morse Code. Knots. Battle history. How to Build a Tree-House. Even the Windtalker's code!
Not that James needs any more encouragement to be dangerous. He likes to do dangerous things already. And drag his brother along with him. Whereas Adam is usually content to sit in his room and dream up new games and strategies and characters. The inclusion of this book in our Library should make things verrrry interesting.
Books always make our lives more interesting, don't they?
Certainly the Harry Potter series has made our lives interesting. I don't know what Cheryl is going to do now that the final book is done, after spending all that time talking with folks over the Internet about it, and reading everyone's ideas of what was going to happen next. It's all over! What's left to talk about?
Perhaps they'll try to guess what JKR is going to write next. I'm rather curious to know if her next book will be as good as the first one, if her success was due to her writing skills, her "voice", her characterizations, or the story itself. Will she remain in the genre of fantasy, or move on to something different?
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