September 23, 2005 at 3:35 pm (Children's Literature and Film, Harry Potter)
A Harry Potter fan has spent her summer holidays writing out the latest book because she couldn’t afford to buy it.
Sandra Luchian, 15, from Moldova, borrowed a copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a friend and wrote down the story word for word.
The book isn’t available to buy in Moldova, and her family couldn’t afford to get the book sent over from the UK.
So Sandra filled five notebooks with Harry’s latest wizard adventures so she could add the book to her collection.
She even wrote dialogue in black, and narration in blue, to make the story easier to read.
Excellent English
“In Moldova this book didn’t appear and I really liked to have it in my own library and I decided to write by hand and that’s why I did what I did,” said Sandra.
Although the book is in English, Sandra only took two days to read it.
But copying down the 607 pages took just over a month.
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September 12, 2005 at 2:54 pm (Children's Literature and Film)
Frightened Children
by DavidNYC
Mon Sep 12th, 2005 at 10:05:52 PDT
(Bumped — kos)
Oliver Willis catches an absurd – but revealing – remark coming out of the mouth of Brian Williams, NBC’s lead anchor. Williams actually admits that the media has been obeisant to Bush, and offers this explanation:
“By dint of the fact that our country was hit we’ve offered a preponderance of the benefit of the doubt over the past couple of years.”
This is the posture of a frightened child. When you’re a young kid, especially in a scary situation, you look to the adults around you to protect you, and (assuming you haven’t yet reached your teenage years) you probably trust them almost unquestioningly. It only makes sense, after all, when you’re at age when much of life is still a mystery and you’re too young to handle the world on your own.
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