Comments on: Read Inkheart to Your Kids This Summer While You’re Waiting for the Harry Potter Movie

By: jntswally

jntswally — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:20:32 +0000

Thanks for recommending Inkheart. I have great memories of reading this series with my daughter LAST summer.

By: AnneT.

AnneT. — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:11:44 +0000

Apple Beer is one of those great Utah things that needs to make its way out here to the Midwest. Love it. Turkish delight, on the other hand, is a real thing that is gross. It always sounded so wonderful in the book…

By: JP

JP — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:37:16 +0000

We’ve made it a tradition to see the midnight showing of the HP movies. (Did I just admit that to the internet??) The people watching at those events is fantastic! My daughter is super excited because this year I’ve deemed her old (cool) enough to go.

I will think about reading Inkheart. You’ve intruiged me.

By: LeonaBea

LeonaBea — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:48:14 +0000

I imagine it tastes a bit like the Apple Beer they have on tap at Heaps Brick Oven.

By: Kacy

Kacy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:09:49 +0000

I know. I want butter beer.

By: Hailey

Hailey — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:11:13 +0000

I love you for writing this, and it makes me sad I’ll be watching HP in Boston while you watch it in Utah. We have not read Inkheart yet, so I will get on that. Also, I would read out just about every feast in the Great Hall, especially that pumpkin juice stuff and the stuff from the pub, what is it-butter beer?

By: summertime

summertime — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:56:30 +0000

Hurray for someone else who likes the Mitford Series. No one else had heard of it when I tried to share the joy.

I have to read to feel alive. I squeeze it in whenever I can. No that we have cancelled our satellite service, because we are trying to be a frugal as possible, there is going to be a lot more reading going on!

By: Kerri

Kerri — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:49:25 +0000

I would read out a little village like that in The Mitford Series with all the interesting characters – I adore Father Tim – and I’d add a lovely cottage for myself and our tiny 3 member family with a huge yard and gardens (tended by someone who can actually make things grow rather than kill them). But it would be cool and not humid all summer with lots more snow than they get in the winter.

We loved Inkheart, both book form and especially the movie. And Harry Potter trailers are being watched here regularly as we await the release date. We’ll go a day or two later, to miss the worst part of the crowds, but we won’t be able to wait long.

My daughter reads constantly, losing herself in her imagination, usually at 250+ books over the summer. I wish I had that kind of time.

By: mormonhermitmom

mormonhermitmom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:31:47 +0000

Just watched that movie today! Read the Inkheart book a while ago, but wasn’t impressed enough to go on with the series. The first was a little too painful with the heroes(?) getting caught ALL THE TIME! you would think the good guys would learn to cover their tracks a little. Just Saying.

By: grannybabs

grannybabs — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:56:21 +0000

I finally read “Tale of Desperaux” this week – my book group’s challenge is to read as many Newbery winners as possible – I’m at 48 now – out of 87 – but I read 47 of them in years past!!

But I digress. I did not see the TOD movie but think that this would be a great read aloud book to kids – maybe I’m yesterday’s news and all the elementary teachers have already read it aloud to all the kids in town – but it’s got my vote.

I’m excited for HP too – but usually wait for the hoopla to die down before I go to the theater -I abhor crowds of children – unless they are in a classroom I’m the boss of! (Mostly I abhor the parents who don’t come with their kids to help them make better behavioral choices!!)

Inkheart caught my eye at the checkout stand yesterday – I will give it a look-see!

By: emilylf

emilylf — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:06:47 +0000

I’m going to be at stupid girls camp when the HP movie comes out…and my kids’ dentist even rented out three theaters so we could see it the DAY BEFORE. Darn girls camp and my stupidity in never refusing to accept callings!

i, too, always maintained snape’s innocence (you can read my brother’s manifesto about it (which he wrote mere days after finishing book #6 and a full year before #7 came out) here: http://larsonsrgreat.blogspot.com/2007/06/harry-potter.html ).

I cried during the preview for Harry Potter when he yells “fight back you coward!” seriously.

By: handsfullmom

handsfullmom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:38:03 +0000

I’ll have to check out Inkheart. I’m pretty lame (to use YOUR word!), but I’d read out a maid to come and clean my house, Mary Poppins to entertain the kids, and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle to give me a magic pill to make all the kids behave.

By: dede

dede — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:19:21 +0000

I spent the majority of my childhood pretending that the orchard behind my house was Terabithia. I would totally read a real Terabithia out of a book any day of the week!
Too good for Harry Potter??? Not possible. I plan on bringing a box of tissue with me on the 15th.

By: stephw70

stephw70 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:25:27 +0000

We just watched that movie a few days ago as well. Very fun. Brendan Fraser’s eyebrows…hehe…that’s funny. They were quite expressive, come to think of it.