I have a problem. It’s a good problem. My kid won’t stop reading.
“Sweetie, would you like to do another book review for me?”
“After I finish reading this book, Mom.”
“Ummm, okay, but you said that after you finished the last two.”
“But this is just sooo good!”
Ugh. Now, here is my problem. I cannot afford to feed this kid’s reading habit! I filled his kindle with Literature. Tarzan, Huck Fin, etc. It’s all stuff my husband SWORE he would like. But no dice. He starts ‘em, but he doesn’t finish them. He is just not interested in the classics.
He is extremely particular. He needs high action, suspense, and comedy all wrapped up in a neat little package.
He’s interested in big block-buster novels, which shouldn’t be a problem, but he wants them when they just hit the bookstores, and some of them are $24. Okay, so, yes, I have paid that much for a book for myself, but it takes me usually a month to read it. This kid will plow through a 300 page novel in two days!
Maybe someday I will just yank a book out of his hands and say “You can have another after you tell everyone why the heck you liked the last ten so much!”
Hey… he may as well earn those books rather than me just handing them over, right?
Now if I could just get his brother to pick up something OTHER than Calvin and Hobbs, maybe I could at least get a second read out of these novels.
Maybe someday. ***sigh***
Jennifer M Eaton 