Well, on the bright side, I can highly recommend Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (who also wrote Fahrenheit 451), but on the downside, all hope of finishing Oliver Twist just gone out the window. Curse you Friday Art SSR!
Something Wicked, however, is a very good book; starting with two boys-Jim and Will-who were born 2 min. apart, one one min. before midnight on Oct. 30, the other 1 min. after on Oct 31 (Halloween, of course). They see a shadowy train ride in at 3 a.m. (evidently the most horrid hour of the night, when you are as close to death as you ever will be without dying), who's whistle is as the screams of the dead, setting up a carnival using the very clouds as their tent.
The next day, they go to the carnival, just barely saving their teacher from being drowned (yes, drowned) in some Chinese mirror maze. Will's dad is also somehow involved in all of this (on the good side, not the bad (the carnival)).
You're sure this isn't a classic Miss K? It'd make my life easier. :) Plus, it is written by the author of another of the books on your list.
In Oliver Twist, Oliver has been apprenticed to a coffin maker. What fun.
If Oliver Twist is becoming too tedious, you could just abandon it. I had to do that with "A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"- a miserable book, in my opinion. I think I will read "Something Wicked This Way Comes;" is it a short story or novel?
ReplyDeleteNovel, it's really a cool book.
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