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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 1/2/2024 (lemmy.nz)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Nearly through the week!

I'm also nearly through Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which I've been reading to the two older kids and they have been loving it.

Anyone got a suggestion for what book to read next? We started the BFG a year back or so, but one of the kids is particularly worried by scary scenes and so a book about giants that eat human kids while they sleep is not ideal. It might be a little better now, a year later, so maybe we will try it again.

But any other suggestions are welcome!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a good but weird read. Not so much a sequel as much as it is a slightly related acid trip 😂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reviews are certainly interesting! There seem to be a big range in opinions on what age is appropriate.

Everyone ends up fine in the Chocolate Factory, but not the case here. I stopped when the chapter ahead included the entire world (through TV and radio) watching and listening to the screams of a space crew getting murdered by aliens who are also hunting Charlie and his family.

Lots of comments about how bad or boring the book is compared to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, too.

Perhaps one to start reading, and see if the kids are enjoying it.

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