Mind boggling
Grab her mother's purse, take out the book there...and read Act 1, Scene 1 of Hamlet.
Did you understand any of it, we later asked? No, not really, she said. All I figured out was that there were four men, and one left, then two of the men were telling the third that they had seen a ghost. The ghost reappeared, and they tried to talk to it, but it disappeared. Then it came back a second time, and they almost got it to talk, but the cock crowed, meaning it was morning, and ghosts can't be out in the daylight, so it disappeared before they could find out what it wanted.
Yep, pretty much didn't get any of it.
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What's an eight year old to do when Daddy is supposed to take her to Barnes & Noble to exchange a Christmas gift (a Calvin & Hobbes book she already had), but he and Mommy have gotten absorbed in a household task and clearly are going to be awhile?
She sits down to write two Christmas thank-you notes. Then she picks up another book she got for Christmas, a 210-page Kate DiCamillo novel she hasn't read before.
An hour later she stands up and stretches, offering to recount for her mother the good book she just finished.
At this rate she'll be through her Christmas haul of new reads before 2014.
1 comment:
Sounds just like my sister, who would always finish all her new Christmas books within a day or two. She'd do the same in school with reading assignments. Several of her grade-school teachers didn't believe she could possibly have gotten anything out of stories she read so fast, but when questioned she always knew all the details. It was astonishing.
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