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 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:21 pm
Well, I've read A New Spring, but does anyone know the name of the other prequel, if there is one?
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:12 pm
There isn't one, he was going to write another but he was getting worse so he focused on the last book
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:52 pm
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 1:07 pm
there are books for children, but all they are are the regular books but split in half so "Eye of the World" would be two books i think it's like leaving two rivers and something else for the second. It's an interesting way to get younger kids reading the books
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:43 pm
I think it's a damn shame that kids can't be assed to read something awesome unless it's your standard short nubbly novelette. More to the point, I think it's awful that that's the industry's perception of younger readers, and that they'd try something as shabby as breaking up a book into chunks and selling them separately as something "new". I mean, I know the publishing industry pulls lame stuff like that with popular authors, but...yeesh. I wish they wouldn't.
Myself, when I was younger, I figured a thick book was a decent challenge, and if the writing was good enough, the thicker the book the better - more to read, you see.
This is why I'm blind without my nice thick lenses.
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:17 pm
hahaha yes, I totally agree with you. Though I think that they are made smaller so that parents can buy them for their kids without worrying that the kid is going to be picked on for the size, or just to psyically read the book. I know that I hurts me to read bigger books because i read one handed alot
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:46 pm
You mean to tell me there are kids out there who get made fun of and beat up because they read thick books?! ...Astounding. And here I've been busy making merry over people whose vocabulary gets stretched thin at anything beyond two syllables. I keep forgetting how increasingly cool it is to be borderline vegetative and monosyllabic. I don't have to put up with those kinds of shenanigans and neither do my kids. We home school. *does the Happy Home School Dance*
I always feel it in the forearms when I've been reading a thick book too. I get that sad wee lactic acid buildup. It goes away after a few days, though, and of course is always a sterling reminder that I need to get back into pushups. The only real drawback I can see with a bigger, thicker book is that it's tougher to hide it in your desk and read during the more boring classes. I did that all the time in grade school and junior high. Less so in high school. In college I'd just skip the class entirely and go read on a bench outside. In those cases, thick books are a help, because the size scares away jerks who don't like their chicks to have too much brain.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:42 pm
it is sad that kids are reading so much less these days.
I'll admit I didn't do alot of reading until middle school. not entirely sure why, spent alot of time outside I think is the biggest reason.
Then when I began reading regularly I'd almost get kicked out of class for not listening and reading. My kids aren't old enough to read on their own yet, but my 4 year old already has her favorites memorized and "reads" them to her sister. I'm hoping she keeps the love of reading, I'm going to attempt to foster that in her as much as possible.
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 am
I foster love of reading in my kids by reading them (age appropriate) books that I also love to read. Currently we're reading (Mommy-discretion-edited - I creatively gloss over the sex) "Stardust". Before that was Spiderwick, and before that was Harry Potter, though we stopped after Prisoner of Azkaban. We'll probably pick that up again next. My daughter and I are reading Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series for naptime. It's nice to have a 2-year-old climb in my lap and demand, "Read Tiffy!"
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