The middle of Golden Week in Japan - we should be outside barbequing and playing ball and slathering on the sunscreen. Instead it's raining and I have to work. Which means it is a good time for me to have received two awesome new books on my Kindle! Yesterday I received the final book in Rick Riordan's Egyptian mythology trilogy,
The Serpent's Shadow. He's the guy behind Percy Jackson, so this is kind of like that, but with flying griffins and the sun god, Ra. Of course the other book I received is also 10 different kinds of awesome. It's
Insurgent, the sequel to last summer's
Divergent. It's highly addictive, and another book perfect for Hunger Games fans. Thank goodness I have 4 days off to ignore my children and read.
My son is reading his
BOB books. I am really happy about this. When I first bought them he was uninterested. Now he likes them because they are easy! So cool to see how much he has learned in just six short months. Time to "level up!" as they say in Japanese- and order
the next set.
Domba is asking for
Curious George Goes to the Beach. I know what she wants to do with her holiday!
What are your Golden Week plans if you have some? Are you outside reading or inside reading, and what?
Hey, nice work on your two books! I saw Rick Riordan speak several months ago, and he revealed his plans to work on an Egyptian series - there were many "oohs" and "aaahs" in the audience.
ReplyDeleteHow fantastic would it be to see Rick Riordan? I'm jealous!
DeleteI like the idea of reading about flying griffins :)
ReplyDeleteBetter in a book than in your living room I think! Although maybe your Groffin could take you to the grocery store faster than ever!?
DeletePlease fill me in on this "Golden Week" you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteIt's a series of public holidays in Japan, April 29th and May 3, 4, and 5. Lots of traffic and usually nice weather, before it starts to get really humid.
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ReplyDeleteDivergent sounds pretty good!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter and I are working through Nancy Drew and the Ghost of Blackwood Hall, my wife and son are reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (my least favourite in the series), while I'm reading Ken Dryden's The Game, Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket, The Book of Jeremiah, and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
I didn't know that Fruits Basket was in English!
DeleteBlackwood Hall is one of my favourite Nacy Drews.
Rain rain rainy Golden Week in this bit of the country too. I am (slowly, so very slowly) reading Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine. So far today the toddler has had Quentin Blake's All Join In and Shirley Hughes' Dogger read to her, more to come I'm sure!
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