My daughter and I are, separately, reading the Spiderwick series...it's really good! And the illustrations are really really delightful and wonderful. I find the interactions between the older sister and the problem-prone younger brother really accurate. Mallory is sarcastic and mean and superior to her little brother in the same way my daughter is to her little brother! I guess it's natural. She, my daughter, is actually a very nice person. I realize that her brother can be annoying to her. Anyway, I recommend them. The writing sparkles, with nothing wasted, which you cannot say about the HP books (not to keep ragging about the HP books, which are wonderful and entertaining).
Apparently there is a movie being made of it/them. Hollywood is just on a roll with the book adaptations. I guess that's nothing new, but I guess it's also the middle-class / white tweener audience explosion.
I'm finishing THE WHITE CASTLE by Orhan Pamuk, an author who restores my faith in humanity and in the novel. Thank you, Orhan Pamuk! If you hadn't already won the Nobel, I'd send you one. Made out of construction paper, or something.
I got the new Denis Johnson book from the library...TREE OF SMOKE.
I read THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS by Toi Derricotte today. I liked it. It made me want to be friends with her. She was very real. Smart. Honest. Agonized...
Oh, and I read FUN HOME yesterday, by Alison Bechdel...it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go get this book immediately. Graphic novel...super smart...funny but not "lite"...quite serious actually...inventive without being gimmicky, coy, or pretentiously hip...
I also, from the library, got PLANET OF THE APES with Mark Wahlberg (why is he such a delight?)...a bad movie...saw it in the theater (oh why) when it came out...just...can't...look...away...monkey...bad...good...fake...fur...
Signing off!
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