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I'd been dodging for weeks, but Gareth finally pinned me down. "This book, Mommy! Read me this book!"
"But there aren't any pictures inside. Just the one on the cover."
"Tell me about the knight!"
Which I did. There are spoilers below, sort of, in the sense that it would be a spoiler to say that Hamlet ends when the prince does too much roughhousing and then everybody is sad. But what could I do? C.L. Moore's classic story "Black God's Kiss" is moody, creepy, violent, disturbing--all things that Gareth will love when he's twelve, but things that would not go down well with him now.
( The Best Answer I Could Come Up With On The Fly )
Now the creepiest thing in my head is not Jirel's sojourn through a hell-dimension where spectral horses wail in human voices, but the fact that my sweet three-year-old came up with poison as his solution to the problem of roughhousing meanies. Apparently my kid is secretly a character from a George R. R. Martin novel.
"But there aren't any pictures inside. Just the one on the cover."
"Tell me about the knight!"
Which I did. There are spoilers below, sort of, in the sense that it would be a spoiler to say that Hamlet ends when the prince does too much roughhousing and then everybody is sad. But what could I do? C.L. Moore's classic story "Black God's Kiss" is moody, creepy, violent, disturbing--all things that Gareth will love when he's twelve, but things that would not go down well with him now.
( The Best Answer I Could Come Up With On The Fly )
Now the creepiest thing in my head is not Jirel's sojourn through a hell-dimension where spectral horses wail in human voices, but the fact that my sweet three-year-old came up with poison as his solution to the problem of roughhousing meanies. Apparently my kid is secretly a character from a George R. R. Martin novel.
