Read All Day Yay

Today has been one of those rare days where I didn't even touch my laptop. I got up, made some food and just started reading. I've been talking about Emily Rodda's The Three Doors trilogy, but today I actually read it. I re-read the first book to refresh, and it turns out I hadn't forgotten much. And then I moved on to the second- and I thought that would also be a re-reading, but it turns out I've never read it before. It must be one of those books which I've borrowed from the library but never read, or maybe I've just been meaning to read it for so long that I actually thought I'd done it.

I cleared the second book quite quickly though, and I'm now 5 chapters into the third and last book. I'm a little in love with a character named Sholto, who's the protagonist's second brother. It's a children's book, so there's no real character insight into someone who is only the protagonist's brother- so I have no idea I like him so much. The description was so plain: Sholto was the skinny brother who liked reading and was mostly alone. This isn't one of those books which let you judge a character by their actions, but for some reason I just kind of accepted every character for the way they were described. I felt as if I were reading Grimm's Fairytales again.

So this is kind of unrelated, but I read Grimm's when I was like 6 and adored almost every story. Recently I've decided to read it again and found that a lot of the stuff in there was just plain fucked-up, but when I was 6 I wouldn't have understood so I must've just overlooked it. I was wondering whether "Grimm's" was actually reference to the stories being really grim. Like I just couldn't understand why the characters would do certain things, and the stories always made me think "well I didn't see that one coming". Most of the time though I just thought "how is this appropriate for a 6 year old".

Anyway I was supposed to crunch through His Dark Materials, but (to the disappointment of quite a few friends, I dare say) I just don't find it very amusing. It's not that I'm too high and mighty for children's literature, because The Three Doors is practically the same genre and I'm about to finish like 600 pages in one day. I can't even pinpoint what I don't like about HDM, but I suspect it's not that I dislike it... maybe I just don't like it. Okay that didn't make much sense, but what I'm saying is that HDM really isn't appealing to me at the moment, and I would much rather read the other books I have piled up. When I finish with The Three Doors I will force myself back to HDM, but until then I don't have much motivation.

So uh, reading is great, reading is fun, and I sincerely wish most of my friends read more. Books generate endless conversation, and it can be about character, theme, language or whatever. I know it sounds like English class- but I'll let you know that I loved English class; even when I thought the books we were reading were absolute rubbish.