Here's to you Sandman!

So, I don't want to be a slacker and neglect my blogging duties, so here is a post.

Now, I am at a loss for books to read. I know I could peruse the shelf of bittercreek and find something, and I am waiting to borrow the Host by Stephenie Meyer, but until then I must rely on books I already own. Now I am not saying I don't have some great books, and that I don't like to read them, they just go by so much faster the second or more times you read them. I curse Blaine for not knowing where he put Books one of the Bartimaeous trilogy, as that is my favorite by far, and so reading that series is out of the question, or even passing it on to others who would enjoy. And so I find myself, with the near release of the movie, rereading the Spiderwick Chronicles with my boys. They have enjoyed them and are attempting to read them themselves, but I have also read aloud some of the parts of it, and found myself once again wishing that this series of books would have been fleshed out a bit more and made into the amazing books they could have been. I am not saying I don't like them, I do love this series and it is an amazingly easy read (come on, my 8 year old boys are reading them) but to see the potential these stories hold to become an amazing saga taunts me. I feel the stories could have been sooo much more but will just have to deal with the reader's digest version that is here.
Anyway, I am on the 3rd book and am realizing the movie hacked this book in dumb ways. It would not have been that hard to follow the story, especially with what they did with the story in the movie, but instead they changed and complicated some uncomplicated parts. And once again, I am finding that I like the books, for the story, much better. And I like the movie, for the entertainment value, just as well, but in a different way.

I think the next book I will reread will be the Artemis Fowl series because I like the authors take on dwarves. It intrigues me and I would like to see that made into a movie, or even a series of movies, but who knows. I have to say that even though it would intrigue me to see Bartimaeous made into a movie, I think it would be half-hearted attempt and that they wouldn't be able to capture the true essence of the character or the whole over all story. It would in my opinion be worse than the Harry Potter hack-job-of-a-movie (and I like them, again for the entertainment value, but of course the books are WAY better).

And now I feel as though I have taken on the persona of Lisle, and have made my very own version of his form letter, and laid it all out for everyone. I hope you enjoyed it just a smidgen as much as I enjoy Lisle's, as I can only dream of being as great of a writer as him.

Toast to Lisle and all the mystery contained there in!

Sherbet