I'm still reading The Chronicles of Narnia to the girls. We're on Prince Caspian, which is 4th in the currently published series (but was second when I read them as a kid, the original order). It's taking us a bit longer on this one but we're almost finished. JoJo's favorite character is still Aslan, while MM like to play as Susan and Lucy.
It was a nice coincidence that Caspian appears in the latest novel I read, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I had really enjoyed his book Freedom and needed a read for the beach, so I downloaded it into the Kindle app on our iPad. That was a first and I have to admit, I enjoyed reading that way. Easier to transport and put away, and no need to store something after finishing it - although it does use a lot of the battery. At any rate, I enjoyed the stories of the children in The Corrections, but the parents (Alfred & Enid) got a little annoying after a while. The climax in the last ten pages was quite satisfying. I appreciate that Franzen doesn't over-do it on the gay characters, and all the sex is 'traditionally' hetero. The married characters' marriages were ... less than ideal, and instructive & enlightening to me. And another reason the end was so great, explaining the title (basically Enid hounded Alfred their whole lives together).
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