Current Reading Julieta and the Diamond Enigma

 

I read a good number of long books and a good number of heavy or complicated books. Sometimes it is nice to read a great middle grade reader. And that is what Luisanna Duarte Armendaritz's Julieta and the Diamond Enigma is.

I am reminded of what Isaace Bashevis Singer had to say about the topic fifty years ago.

Why I write for children from "A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw" 1970 by Isaace Bashevis Singer.

 

1. Children read books not reviews.
2. Children don't read to find their identity.
3. They don't read to free themselves from guilt, to quench their thirst for, or to get rid of alienation.
4. They have no use for psychology.
5. They detest sociology.
6. They don't try to understand Kafka or Finnegan's Wake.
7. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
8. They love interesting stories, not commentary, guides or footnotes.
9. When a book's boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority.
10. They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

 

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