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In a message dated 10/04/2001 3:18:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Kirby is reading his first (that I know of) real full-length small-print
> non-illustrated novel. He has read stuff online that would have qualified
> if
> it had been printed and bound. He's fifteen. I didn't make a deal out of
> it
> at all; no comment from me except to you guys and my husband.
>
>

Yeah, but I bet you were REALLY psyched ;)

Kathryn


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In a message dated 10/4/01 9:42:36 PM, KathrynJB@... writes:

<< Yeah, but I bet you were REALLY psyched ;) >>

Relieved!! (and psyched)

I just asked him what it was, and he told me (a novel based on one of the
clans in Legend of the Five Rings), and told me who he had borrowed it from,
that it was really good and had info that wasn't clear from the cards
themselves (it's a card game with booster sets and all, based on medieval
fantasy Japanese clan wars, sort of, I think).

He is our big Garfield fan. Someone commented on the vocabulary in Garfield.
I agree, and Calvin and Hobbes even moreso (Marty reads that one). Just
because they have pictures of cats and stuffed tigers doesn't mean they're
not about real philosophy and politics and interpersonal relationships.
Calvin and Hobbes stabs school (repeatedly--thrust, thrust, thrust and no
need to parry) in elegant fashion about where learning really takes place.

Sandra