Mallory and the Mystery Diary Chapters 6-10

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Chapter 6

This chapter wasn’t very eventful. Mallory had her first session with Buddy today. It didn’t go very well. Buddy was not very enthusiastic about his tutoring. I don’t really blame him very much. I never looked forward to my math tutoring sessions, either. Well, I did one time because my tutor was cute, but he was a grown man and I was a

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On the subject of reading, I agree I really doubt the Pike's allow the horrible bullshit their kids dish out on a daily basis but draw the line at comic books. I read a lot of comic books, BSC books, LS books, SV Kids SV Twins, etc as a kid and I grew to love reading, so what's the big damn deal? What 8 year old is going to say "holy shit, the library has War and Peace! It's my lucky day!!"?

We read Jane Eyre in one of my classes and I fell in love with the story line. I still reread that book to this day. I aced all the papers we wrote on it and went out and bought the book for my very own. The next book in line was Wuthering Heights and I was thrilled, until I got a few chapters in. I found it to be a yawn fest and hated every minute we spent on it. It doesn't mean it was a bad book. It just didn't strike me as gripping; other kids really liked it.

In a lot of cases, if I read a book then discover there's a movie based on the book it's rare I watch it because it seems to me that the book is way better 99% of the time, and the movie is a huge let down. (I love the movie To Kill A Mockingbird though. Can I get a hell yeah for Gregory Peck, because who else in this galaxy could have played Atticus Finch so well? Also the girl who played Mayella did a TREMENDOUS job, especially in the court scene!)

On the flip side, if I see the movie (a rarity; I'm not a big movie person) and love it, I'll turn the universe upside down to find out if there's a book. I saw Contact when I was about 13 and loved it, later on I found the book and I can say again that the book is 1,000,000 times better. Sure you lose the special effects and Hollywood-ization (is that a word?), but it plays out in your mind and is ten times more intense.

Also funny to note that when I reread a book I read as a kid, I "see" the houses and rooms planned out in my mind like I did when I was 7,8, 9, etc. I can still picture the BSC headquarters as resembling a room I spent a lot of time in during the 5th/6th grade, and in my mind 20 years later it still looks that way in my brain. The Wakefield house (from SVH) still looks like it did to me many years ago; it resembles the house of a friend I spent a LOT of time in and for some reason that's how I pictured their house as a kid, so I still do now. Only a few books, for some reason, made me picture the whole thing going on in my own house, so when I read those I "see" them taking place in the house I grew up in. It's kind of cool.