Reading the last book in a very good five part series by Anthony Horowitz. It's Oblivion, part of the Power of Five series. Have read the first four books in a very short time - love finding good series that are all already written and published - and where the series isn't monumentally long - please, no Discworld or Wheel of Time.
Anthony Horowitz is a good writer of childen's books - creator of the Alex Rider series. And far removed from children's fiction he writes for Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War.
The Power of Five books are very apocalyptic. Set in the world as we know it, only with the addition of the super evil Old Ones (not to be confused with the sort of Auld Wans we find in Ireland) and five children with extraordinary powers. The narrative moves at a cracking pace. Recommended reading from about ten upwards.
For Mother's Day - yes, my yankee friends, it was this Sunday, the 4th Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, not the second Sunday in May - the kids bought my wife, inter alia, a DVD of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which we watched this evening. I enjoyed it a lot. Those who know me will know it's my sort of film - teenage angst, with characters who talk a lot in full paragraphs. The profound thought from the movie is:
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
which made me think of Sunday's gospel, the Prodigal Son and the difficultly people can have in accepting the love of God in their lives. We miss the love and grace that He offers because we think we don't deserve it. Of course we don't deserve it - that's not the point with God. If we got what we deserved it wouldn't be God.
Certainly wouldn't be Emma Watson either I suspect.
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