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Few days later I decided I was being an idiot, and picked it back up and finished it.
And thus began the corruption of a young mind! Thanks Guy N. Smith!
Oliver Twist - Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Dickens
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
Good shout. My daughter really enjoyed 'The Graveyard book' (the book, not the graphic novels).
I wish I could get my son to read but actually fears reading a book (something to do with his ASD)
I'm going through a similar thing with my 8 year old lad at the moment, he reads every night and devours books. He's still on things like Captain Underpants, but I think just encouraging reading what they like for the age group is good. Trouble is he's just read a 10 book pack in less than a week, they are not the densest of books, but, still, his literary demands are becoming difficult to keep up with...
My younger sister was like that with books, read one per day
My feedback thread is here.
My feedback thread is here.
as an example, I advised them that some films are disturbing in a way that not everyone enjoys, and gave the example of the SAW films. The younger one had a look at it, and told us a month later that she agreed.
So my target is "interesting, well-written books, but not long and boring, or too clever and inaccessible, with no real plot, or dwelling constantly on rape, torture, etc".
I'm looking for books that they are ready for, e.g. I think Game of Thrones is OK for my 15 year old, but probably not for the 13 year old, but the 13 year would probably like it at 14. Personally I found the human caterpillar very unpleasant, I would not be recommending that to a 13 year old.
As another example, I can remember really enjoying Jamrach's Menagerie, which includes plenty of weird and grown up stuff, but I'm not sure if she'd get bored in the long section in the middle where they are stuck at sea
My feedback thread is here.
The 13 year old asked for a book from AMazon, and asked which of my Mann booker shortlist books was suitable, so I want to give her a steer to interesting books that are not too much of a jump from the ones from school - e.g. not 1Q84
I have given her Hitch-hikers partly as a test for that
Yeh, the Hitch hikers books, I think MrsTheWeary wanted them to love Stephen King books but both tried and didn't. But neither been great readers, although I'm probably a poor example as I rarely read a book if not on holiday.
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