Yesterday morning, he finished his first book of the summer - so yesterday afternoon I found myself manipulating a frowning, bearded avatar through the zombie-choked streets of a dystopian city.ĭo what you can to encourage your kids to read for pleasure. Then I made a deal with my son: for every book he reads from now through August, I will learn a new video game under his tutelage. Having devoured virtually everything in the local library, and knowing her brother’s tastes, she came up with a list of books that are loaded with action or humor. First, I enlisted my daughter to come up with some titles that would be to his liking. I’m trying to change that mindset this summer. The idea of reading as a pleasurable pastime simply doesn’t occur to him. It isn’t that he doesn’t have good reading skills, but for him, reading is a duty. My husband rarely picks up a book, but makes a point of thoroughly reading the front section of the daily newspaper, and also keeps up on several magazines. My daughter outdoes me - beginning with Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” which she read before entering first grade, she continues to be a voracious reader all these years later. I read around a hundred books annually, in all kinds of genres.
(Feb.Reading is different for everyone, and my family proves the point.
Still, despite the contrivances, readers will likely be impressed when they finally discover the link between Manny and Harlan (and they will have something to think about when the book ends). It's hard to believe, for instance, that Manny did not previously question his missing baby pictures, and Harlan's mother seems overly cruel (she began blackmailing him back when he was in the Boy Scouts) and micromanages his life, using guilt trips and threats. But they may find that some of the plot points stretch credibility. Readers will be curious about the connection between these two opposite protagonists, whose stories unfold in alternating chapters. Meanwhile, theater "geek" Manny has terrible nightmares, which make him question his own past-questions that his usually sensitive father does not want to answer. Rich, popular Harlan, the son of a senator, begins having premonitions of his own death (one of which almost comes true when a bus narrowly misses him on the corner of Grand and Humble Streets). Two 17-year-olds with very different lives both begin experiencing strange phenomena in Hartinger's ( Geography Club
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