At the risk of sounding all sappy, my partner and I have developed this little ritual over the last six months or so. I have trouble settling down to go to sleep at night, my brain just doesn't turn off. Reading helps, but even if we both read, Jus is still falling asleep long before I'm ready. So we came up with a solution. I read to her, and she gives me a light head massage while I'm reading. It works a treat!
We read through some Silverberg, tried some Fforde (doesn't make sense unless you *view* the words) raced through "The Eight" and finally came to some Card.
Jus absolutely adored "Seventh Son". I felt like a d**k reading it aloud. I don't know if you've ever heard frontier-American-English spoken with an Australian accent, but trust me, it's a riot.
So* has anyone else tried to read the Alvin Maker series aloud and felt somewhat foolish in doing so?
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
No, but I have read Harry Potter in a flat American accent. There are certain words (nutter, ruddy, mental, bloody, to name a few offhand) that just sound sad and wrong when pronounced the way the average uncultured American such as myself would do so. Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
I can imagine. At least the Aussie accent is slightly related to certain more rural Brit accents, so we'll be right (me 'ol muckah) come the 16th of July.
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