Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
A very droll novel where not much happens slowly. Amusing. Really hard to read quickly so to maximize the number of entries into the Valentine Day drawing at the library. It did leave me with a question and a couple of amusing quotations. First the question: Are these really games that kids (boys, specifically) play in Scottland? British Bulldog? Chase the Dentist? "It was his last night, he reminded himself, of being six. His seventh year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven." "The value of money is subective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven -- Bertie's age-- the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty-four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty-five it is divided ...