Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 08, 2015

…and Hobbes has him on the hook.

Calvin, you’ll find out later in your life.

I must be strange. Never had an “AIEE!” moment while reading a book. Words and phrases are just a little too slow and deliberate to sneak up on me that way.

this will be funny

Does anyone think this trick would work on today’s kids?

I remember an AIEE moment with a book. It wasn’t just words but rather, words plus a well-placed illustration. Astrid Lindgren’s The Brother Lionhearts – where the brothers are sitting in their camp by riverside during a thunderstorm “And then in that light I saw Katla. I saw her.”, then I turned the new page, quite unsuspectingly (there is mentioning of Katla earlier in that book, but neither I nor the narrator knew what it was)… to be confronted with a two-page spread of AIEE!

It’s either Stephen King or Henry Miller.

Hobbes is giving Calvin the cold shoulder. He knows that Calvin is trying to do something behind his back.

And the tiger is trapped by the conniving hunters.

I remember my ‘AIEE’ moment (along with two of friends), it was watching ‘The Shining’. We were glad that we saw it during the daylight ! ! !! ! !

I have read so many books over the years that brought out every emotion. Movies cannot compare.

@sweetaddietude hansen: Ah yes, I agree…… All those years of reading books of comic strips…..

I posted this yesterday, but it’s still true:

“… perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren’t also dangerous, just because reading them didn’t make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader’s brain.”- Terry Pratchett, “Soul Music”

Hobbes is gooood! (At least at getting Calvin interested in reading)

I read a ton (sometimes a ton and a half…..) and always have and always will. Just like there can be comfort food, there can be comfort books. My choices for comfort books have always been Agatha Christie and Larry Niven. Every other couple of years I’ll binge-read them. (I binge read Dr. Seuss, too, of course, but pretend I’m only reading them to my nieces and nephews and therefore it doesn’t “count”…….)

Is he reading “The Naked Lunch”?

For a moment, I thought Hobbes had found a great big spider in the book!

xxx

I am a reading addict. It’s my absolute favorite thing to do ever. I know I’ve had a few “Aiee!!” moments reading the Game of Thrones series, and that’s just the latest, I’ve probably had more that I just don’t remember.

One of the best story lines ever in C & H……….. ;-)