Friday, August 6, 2010

I wonder if I should continue...



I wonder if should even continue this blog. On one hand, it's a neat tool, I could use it for anything now that I have escaped school (unsscathed might I add). I could never post it's URL up bringing no one to it and have my own lil' escape from social networking. As of now, what it seems to be to me is a place where I can talk about the books I am reading. I kinda' like that, and it gives me incentive to be in process of reading a book at all
times...which I try to do anywho.




The book I am in process of reading is the final part of the series Peter and the Starcatchers. It's based on J. M. Berries Peter Pan, who I have to say, I love! Great Disney classic from my childhood, I appreciate those. Well, this series was done by Dave Barry (Yes, that Dave Barry) and Ridley Pearson (who is another bestselling author~ I dunno'. Had to look him up...)! The series starts with Peter and the Starcatchers, of the four in this series, I have to say this one is my favorite. It sets up the situation we are all so familiar with beautifully! I loved watching the characters grow and the plot thicken. I know how Neverland became Neverland, who Peter Pan is, etc. I was captured...



Sadly enough, from there I feel like the series took a turn for the side of ambling along, trying to gather a plot. There are three other books, all of them gradually falling off of the interesting, but not horribly enough for me to put them down all together. Peter and the Shadow Thieves, and then Peter and the Secret of Rundoon; these are followed with, what is presumed to be the last of this particular series (looking on Pearsons webpage though, I see they've already started another series based on this series). All of the books come together too quickly for me, I'm one hundred pages away from the end of a five hundred page book, and I've got three plots to bring together. I dunno' to me the plots aren't evoked early enough in the book for me to feel an emotional connection with them. The skipping from one plot to another leaves me wishing to know the conclusion on the main plot instead of wading through the sub plots. I would recommend the series to my children, they are adolescent lit., after all, but I would only recommend the first one to adults.

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