I can't recall which HP I stopped with. I like good fantasy so it was never a chore to read kid's fantasy for reccing purposes, and I did enjoy the first few HP, just could not see why they caused such devotion and uproar, compared to others I thought were better.
But when I quit working in 2003, I remember I read the one that came out that summer, but then I don't think I read any after that.
Oh, Diane Duane--I enjoyed her So You Want to Be a Wizard and then I loved the sequel, Deep Wizardry (the best of the series, I thought). I think it was the next one that was more on computers so I was barely interested in that one, and the following ones were OK but never involved me as much as the first two, as I recall. I did buy some of them to give to a young boy who was very bright and whose mother died the last year I worked (she had cancer and as her librarians we did all we could to help her, and her kids, including, in my case, baking the family brownies each week). Besides the fact that they were fantasy, which Kent loved, one of those books has the main character's mother dying of cancer and some hope thru the pain, for the family, which after a lot of reflection, I hoped might help Kent. I was very attached to a lot of my good library patrons.
So maybe your local librarians might help you to at least steer SC toward some good reading--maybe just lay a book or 2 out when they see her coming. I know I'd have done that--probably depends on the size of your library, and your librarians.
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Date: 2010-07-05 02:23 am (UTC)But when I quit working in 2003, I remember I read the one that came out that summer, but then I don't think I read any after that.
Oh, Diane Duane--I enjoyed her So You Want to Be a Wizard and then I loved the sequel, Deep Wizardry (the best of the series, I thought). I think it was the next one that was more on computers so I was barely interested in that one, and the following ones were OK but never involved me as much as the first two, as I recall. I did buy some of them to give to a young boy who was very bright and whose mother died the last year I worked (she had cancer and as her librarians we did all we could to help her, and her kids, including, in my case, baking the family brownies each week). Besides the fact that they were fantasy, which Kent loved, one of those books has the main character's mother dying of cancer and some hope thru the pain, for the family, which after a lot of reflection, I hoped might help Kent. I was very attached to a lot of my good library patrons.
So maybe your local librarians might help you to at least steer SC toward some good reading--maybe just lay a book or 2 out when they see her coming. I know I'd have done that--probably depends on the size of your library, and your librarians.
Good luck!
Melissa M.