This video was taken two years ago (November 2009, age 5). C is talking about the pygmies and vampire bat in Pocket God. (Note his “I heart speech therapy” sticker)
Nearly a year later (August 2010). C reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Nearly a year later again (July 2011). C and D swimming in the pool. C is the one who says “it’s cold underwater”, so you can really measure the speech difference in him.
And in August 2011, C again reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
I need a new author to add to my beloved list. Someone prolific, cause I read fast. I’m in the process of re-reading the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, because Finger-Lickin’ Fifteen comes out next week (yay!). I’m getting back up to speed in Stephanie’s life. I sent the first book to my mom a few weeks ago, and now she’s also in love with these books. She says she lays in bed reading, laughing hysterically. Is it our Jersey background or does Stephanie just rock? Who knows. My mom’s a Jersey girl herself so she really loves the books.
I read everything Terry Pratchett writes. I love him. He’s incredibly brilliant. I’ve read all the Discworld books until I have them memorized. I like the Song of Ice and Fire by George R R Martin, but it seems unlikely that he’s ever going to finish it, and that annoys me. I do think he’s cool because I sent him an email a few years ago, before Feast for Crows came out, because he’s my mom’s age and is from her hometown in NJ, and he actually emailed me back personally and said he didn’t know her, but was pretty sure he knew my aunt Susan. Funny.
So, since it won’t take me long to read the new Stephanie Plum, and the new Disworld won’t be out until October, and the new ASOIAF may never be out, I need someone new to read. Sigh. I tried Charlaine Harris and didn’t care for her. I hear the latest Anita Blake only pretended for a minute to have a plot, then went back to hundreds of pages of how great Anita is and all the random sex she has, which is extremely disappointing. I enjoyed those books up until Obsidian Butterfly, and quit reading after Anita turned into the ultimate Mary Sue. I like MaryJanice Davidson’s books, even though she’s the queen of the Sassy Sue and the “good concept, bad execution” mode, but I was pretty underwhelmed by the last Betsy Taylor book.
I’m really not into vampires. I don’t know why suddenly everyone else is. Vamporn bores the hell out of me. Twilight made me want to vomit, I couldn’t even finish the first book. Awful. I’ve read better Dramiones than that, and we all know how I feel about Dramiones. So I need something new. With funny bits. I don’t mind sex, heck I love romance, but I need a plot too. What the hell am I going to read next?
