Meanwhile S was busy, she had taken her summer reading holiday seriously and was up to her 45th book.
Every time she read a book, she recorded it on her reading log whether it was one she couldn't put down or one that she wanted to throw out the window into the recycling bin. Her latest challenge was reading book 16 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series in which middle school hero Greg Heffley keeps going to middle school until author Jeff Kinney runs out of stories for him.
This time, Greg doesn't go to school at all, in 'Diper Overlode' all the drama is suddenly focused on his rascally older teen brother, Roderick, who is in a garage band called 'The Loaded Diper'. Now The Diary of a Wimpy Kid is full of spelling mistakes, so S couldn't find the word 'diper' in the dictionary. She found out it was an American word for 'nappy' and it was spelt 'diaper'. Though having a band named 'The Loaded Nappy' probably didn't have the same ring to it.
S plunged into the book which was again full of cartoony illustrations that the teachers hated, complaining it didn't have paragraphs or even chapters, although the entries were sort of haphazardly dated though on what year or even what planet Greg lived on didn't seem to make sense, as his parents seemed to not mind that their sons skipped school or were out getting into heaps of trouble, scamming gullible fans into parting with their hard earned pocket money.
What, thought S. I am very disappointed in this book. I give it a 1 star. There is no Manny in this book and he is my favourite character. He should be part of the band as the cute younger brother and show a talent like Michael Jackson did for the Jackson 5! And why is Greg always thinking of ways to scam people? Doesn't his parents earn enough to stop him from hustling all the time so he can concentrate on doing well at school and becoming a...
She couldn't really think of what a boy like Greg Heffley could become. He lived in the US of A where American dreams were still alive and everyone wanted to be a lawyer because Americans were big on suing people. There were references to a band called 'Metallicachuhuahua' in the book which didn't make sense either and she didn't think 12 year old Greg would really be bothered spelling that correctly either.
Maybe I should give this book to T to read. But she told me she doesn't have time to read, and can only really be bothered with books about unicorns. However the children have the entire Wimpy Kid series in the library so it would be mean if we didn't buy them the latest one....
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