2014-06-01

banjo of destiny by cary fagan

- what was your favourite part of this book?
- i have no idea. but i really liked the process of banjo construction. and all the moments when he was so embarassed.

- in what ways is jeremiah similar to you?
- pretty much the same. no wait. i'm really not embarassed all the time. and i don't have everything i could ever desire. but i feel like he would understand me and i wish he was an actual person that i could meet.

- a lot of the book focuses on descriptions of jeremiah's family's wealth. were you impressed or envious? maybe just curious. what are your thoughts?
- half envious, half curious. i really want those high-tech floss dispensers. i want to tour their house and see everything. i would like to have a pinball arcade and all the other stuff that no other people have.

- would jeremiah have been just as happy if he had bought the banjo?
- he would not have been as happy. he wouldn't have felt as great. he felt good that he had to make it out of stuff he found.

- what about luella? what do you like about her?
- she's pretty much the perfect person. i don't have anything to say to make what i just said sound better.

- ok, so you are about to spend months of your life making your big dream come true. what should we build?
- my dream is to make a teeny tiny robot that looks like the nanobots in the pbs kids game. no, not just one, a twenty pack of them.

- this book was pretty realistic compared to most stuff we read. does it inspire you to read things more like it, or run away to the world of fantasy?
- fantasy! or at least things that would never happen. so if it has real people it should at least have crazy weird stuff like in roald dahl books.

- convince the world to read this book.
- this book is so amazing it is undescribable.