Book review - Peter and the Star Catchers and some random thoughts.

 It's been awhile since my last book review and that's because it took me awhile to get through Peter and the Starcatchers by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry. It's not that the book is that long it's that it just took forever for me to get into it and when I'm not into a book I don't seem to find the time to read as much as when I am. I love J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and when I saw this book, it's suppose to be a prequel to Pan, several years ago I wanted to read it and it's just taken till now to get to it, it was not worth the wait. The first half of the book is very slow in it's build up, the tempo doesn't pick up and the story doesn't get interesting until the pirates board Peter's ship which is almost half-way through the book. Early on I realized if I was going to get any enjoyment out of this book, and there is some joy to be had from it, I had to let go of the prequel to Peter Pan idea and just read it as a story on it's on, a story that just happens to have some similarities to Peter Pan. Because this Peter is not the  Peter we all know and love. "The" Peter Pan is an archetype of adolescence, brash, brazen and bold. He's always ready for an adventure, he'll switch sides in the middle of a fight, he gets moody when he doesn't get his way and he doesn't understand when things aren't fair. The Peter in Starcatchers is just too precocious to ever be the Pan. The other big problem with this being a prequel is that Barrie's Peter Pan is as much a dream as he is real where as the Peter in this book is very much based on a real world. The story tries to explain all the wonderful things that just 'are' in Barrie's book and sometimes explaining things takes away all the fun.
  Now for some randomness. I shared this as a status update earlier but it's funny enough to bear repeating here, I overheard my four year old playing with two Batman figures yesterday and this is the conversation the two caped crusaders had. "I know your Batman." "You know Batman can turn into a kitty. Meow, meow." lol    
Now a story about the wee one, who's almost two now, he and I were sharing a can of roasted almonds and he squats down in the floor and starts putting almonds into his diaper, so of course I say, "Boy you already got two nuts in there you don't need any more."  Well he, despite my admonitions not too, puts the almonds in there and he's walking around and then he pulls them out and starts to put him in his mouth. Ewww. So I yell, "Sam don't eat those!" Thankfully he listened this time, and dropped them in the floor. I threw them away and then grabbed me some hand sanitizer.

Well I suppose that's all for now, I hope every one has a good week. Now let's go, "second  to the right and straight on till morning".