And Another Thing, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

And Another Thing, by Eoin Colfer

Hitchhiker's sequel. Apparently Colfer decided to write another piece of the story. It's pretty good, too. You feel as if you're reading a Douglas Adams book. My only gripe with it is that I felt that there were too many Guide's notes. Those were a little distracting. Remember the last Adams' Guide book, that had all the Earths in all the dimensions exploded? Well, it turns out that the Guide 2.0 version, if you will, wanted to see what life was like, and so he took Random, Arthur, Trillian, and Ford on a little mental journey, that took them all to old age. And then his battery runs out and they're all forced back into their younger bodies just before Earth(s) are about to be exploded. Before they can explode as well, though, of course they are rescued, by none other than Zaphod Beeblebrox. And from there things get a little confusing, so I suggest everyone just read the thing themselves. You won't regret it.

Now, onto the book I am currently reading. It was an impulse purchase at Walmart while I was waiting for my prescription to be filled (sinuses, fucking again). I decided that I had to have it because Jen Yates of Cakewrecks and Epbot fame read it and said it was good, and also THERE ARE PICTURES. Photographs. The author claims he found them and created the story around them. They're all old-timey and creepy as hell. When I finish the book maybe I'll scan some in, but most likely I'll forget.

OH WAIT TITLE, I FORGOT.

It's called "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", by Ransom Riggs. I've only read a few chapters, and seen a few pics, but I think I'm going to enjoy this, and the book is of the quality that I think I'll treasure this thing for a few years. No one gets to get their grubby little hands on this, I'll tell you that.

The reason I'm bringing it up even though I'm not finished is that I just read a passage that immediately made me want to tell someone about it, and tell why I do not feel the same as the kid telling the story. And I'm home sick, alone, so the internet will have to do!

p. 63 I love you too, I wanted to say with as much hurtful sarcasm as I could muster, but she hadn't seen me, and I kept quiet. I did love her, of course, but mostly just because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street.


I know that people have relationships like this with their mothers, or hell both parents, but I've always counted myself lucky in that I have 4 people who I love very much, genuinely, not because it's "mandatory." (That's right, I said 4--broken families for the win! TWO CHRISTMASES......and okay so their also just freaking great people, the lot of them) And my mother specifically--she is AWESOME. If I met her walking down the street, I think I'd adopt her immediately. Hello ma'am, you are my new mother. Or aunt. Whatever you feel most comfortable being. Because YOU ARE PRECIOUS, AND SWEET, AND seriously, you guys? Everybody loves her. It's impossible not to. So I've always looked at those with not great relationships with their mothers with a little of pity and just not understanding it at all.

I know my mom doesn't read my blog. She would, if I set up a bookmark and then emailed her whenever I finally updated, but I bet she just doesn't think about it. Plus, everything I write here, I usually end up telling her anyways, because all of these books I've either read AFTER her, or forced upon her immediately upon finishing them. That's another reason I bet she wouldn't read the blog--lady HATES spoilers.