The Giggler Treatment

We are reading Roddy Doyle's The Giggler Treatment. (Hubby and I are old fans of Doyle's adult books The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van and especially the films) We started at bedtime Wednesday night, and the chapters are very short and sweet. Lumpy at one point was reading one page ( the one with the least writing haha) and I the other after he told me he could read this book. But it did not last long and I read the last few.

Dad managed to read a few more chapters last night (Thursday) as Lumpy fell asleep. Well it was 9pm and he been to watch a Baseball game with a little friend and the friends Grandad. He was having a good time, even got a ball from a players, but he had a fall on the area near the playground and badly scarped his knee and chin. He apparently asked his little friend not to tell anyone and that he'd deal with it himself?!?!?

Anyway for such a small book ( it only has 112 pages) and large font it is taking us a long time to finish!! So far though it has been funny and has frequent references to poo, this always delights Lumpy.

I plan to read more to L today so that we can start a new book tonight. Hopefully he will read a book to me, we will see. We are doing the http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/ and the http://www.scholastic.com/summerreading/ online as incentive and then http://www.barnesandnoble.com/subjects/children/summer_reading_kids/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=1669&linkid=689404 for a free book after reading 8.

The hardcover edition we have is shown above, I prefer this cover art to the others I have seen.