Daily Reading (8th September)

[ironed_orchid]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from the TOS to the back of the cereal box!

Comments

[fred_mouse]

I read 'Small Things' by Mel Tregonning. Highly recommended, but kind of hard going emotionally in places. The story of a child having a hard time, who starts generating little black shadow animals (with teeth) that follow ?him? around, this story is told entirely in pictures (think of some of the Shaun Tan books for a basic idea). Mel has created a powerful picture of depression.

(disclaimer: Mel was a friend. This book has been brought to publication posthumously, after much effort from her family)

[ironed_orchid]

I've already heard good things about this. Might need to buy a copy.

[fred_mouse]

New Edition had copies last Friday.

Just be aware that it is quite confronting for a significant amout of the book - isolation, failure to 'meet standards', exclusion, mostly in a primary school context. The ending is not happy, but is decidedly less bleak, and reasonably credible