A cool thing about Edith
For the past few weeks, as day has dawned earlier, she has been waking around 6 am and reading for 90 minutes before the rest of us get up. It's the first time in her life that she has risen without calling for parents, and it's pretty fantastic, especially since it has allowed her to plow through all kinds of great books. We find her lying on her bunk dressed in her uniform, book propped open on the pillow in front of her.
This morning I found her with a stack of 5 new birthday books she had chosen for today. She had already completed Roald Dahl's The Twits by the time I entered and was well into Elizabeth Enright's The Saturdays. She got 3/4 of the way through that during church and would have completed it in the afternoon if she hadn't switched back to comfort food: her third pass through the Harry Potter series. She re-started those two weeks ago and is into Book 5 now.
She reads in all the interstitial moments, too. Between her class's regular Thursday visit to the school library and pick-up at the end of the day she polished off a new Magic Treehouse book, and between pick-up and going to collect Alice from her school, she completed a second.
No, we don't necessarily see a lot of her these days, and it can be awfully hard to get her attention. But on the whole, it's hard not to love it.
3 comments:
Wow! That is about 20 times faster than I could ever read. That speed reading thing will be come really handy in her future (and now).
That is so great. :) I used to read in every in-between moment too: while brushing my teeth, etc. But it was my sister who could speed-read her way through a big fat book in an afternoon, and whose attention you couldn't draw away from it. Anyway, it's fantastic that you have such a reader on your hands! May I recommend The Phantom Tollbooth if she hasn't read it yet? I think she's the right age for a lot of the humor.
We have read it, Rebecca, thanks to you!
As one who also read at all times and still reads whenever I can squeeze it in, I am currently finding a Kindle (1) great for reading on the treadmill and after my spouse's lights out, (2) a 100% failure for my preferred reading spot, the bathtub.
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