Children's Literature - by JacquiB

Since I somehow have managed to get at least a few hits here each week, it seems to me that there is at least a few people out there interested in reading this blog, so you know what, I'll take it up again (particularly since it's been over six months since I've posted in it). Since my grand schemes for rigid regularity have never worked in the past, I'll make this as easy going as possible.

So first book off the shelf (as opposed to first cab of the rank), even though I read it sometime back, is Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now
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The End by Lemony Snicket

November 18th 2006 05:12

Beginning with The End is perhaps an odd place to start, but it is the latest example of ‘kid lit’ that I’ve read, so it is, at any rate, the most logical one.

The End, Book the Twelfth in A Series of Unfortunate Events, picks up exactly where The Penultimate Peril left off; the Baudelaire orphans and their arch nemesis, Count Olaf, all in the same boat; in true Snicket style, he milks the proverb for all its worth

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What I read then, what I read now

November 16th 2006 08:06

I'm 23 years old, but I'm still reading what some might consider below my reading level. Yes, I am talking about children's fiction. Even though it is perfectly acceptable for an adult to read and indeed, even enjoy, Harry Potter, some might be more hesitant to buy, say, Lemony Snicket, and admit they are doing so for themselves.

Apart from the occasional pang of, hmm, I should probably be getting better acquainted with Dostoyevsky, rather than Diane Duane, for the most part, I enjoy ransacking the 'young readers' sections in book shops and libraries. These, after all, are the works that will form and inform the next generation. To dismiss them seems to be an adult snobbery, a desire to show that they have 'moved on' from such trivial things. Sure, some of these books are indeed trivial with very little occuring beyond a fast-paced adventure plot

Children's Literature - by JacquiB

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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

The End by Lemony Snicket

What I read then, what I read now

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