I had to read it for a school assignment so i basicly had to but i wouldnt even recommend it to my worst enemy
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READ THIS!!!!!!!READ THIS!!!!!!READ THIS!!!!!!READ THIS!!!!!!

I do not like her in a box, I do not like her with a fox–

Seriously, I don’t know what the problem is. On paper it sounds like exactly the kind of series little me would have been all over. But I tried several times, because I liked to like the same books as my big sister, and each time I couldn’t get through them. 🙁

My little sister and I both slavishly adore The Dark is Rising Sequence to the point that we actually watched the godawful film adaptation The Seeker. I cannot imagine any childhood fantasy lover NOT loving it!

Susan Cooper brings people together! Shoots, during my senior year of high school, I was over at my boyfriend’s house reading The Grey King (the penultimate book in the Sequence) while he and his friends all skated outside. Everyone was really excited because this one phenomenally cool skater had come over to try out Jay’s rails, but I was just hanging out inside, utterly absorbed by Cooper’s world. Into the kitchen came Amazingly Cool Skater Dude to get a glass of water, but when he saw what I was reading, he sat down and chatted with me about The Dark is Rising for a good twenty minutes. When Jay came in to investigate, it blew his MIND to see his idol talking about kids’ books with his booknerd girlfriend. (Obviously, we were not together long.) Susan Cooper! Is AWESOME!

Read this one instead! We now have two votes saying that The Dark is Rising books don’t hold up well into adulthood. This one is better for grown-ups AND contains time travel. 🙂

I used to like your face much better than you.

It makes me so sad when that happens! I can never decide if I’d rather preserve my memories of the magic in my childhood favorite books, or know the Truth about them. (Truth apparently wins out as I am engaged in rereading all of Edward Eager’s books right now.)

I think I am far more passionate about it than, you know, knowledgeable. I should really research it a bit more before sneering at John Paul Stevens, Cleverest Supreme Court Justice ™.

I realized after I published this post I’d said “damn” in the tags even though I’ve given up swearing for Lent, which just goes to show how seriously I take this question. (It doesn’t actually, I’m doing very badly at giving up swearing.) Fortunately this post was published on Sunday, which isn’t part of Lent, so, haha!, I don’t have to change the tags.

Do they, really? I’ve never heard of such a thing! Some of them (I’m not naming names) don’t strike me as the types who would enjoy that. Why was Malvolio suing Olivia? It’s not her fault he had the silly garters.