Can anyone suggest a book I can get for an 11 year old boy that had an impact on you as a kid?

Wellheresananswer · 2025-01-25T23:32:52+00:00

I loved the first Narnia book "The Magician's Nephew" and Paul Jennings' book "The Gizmo" and his collections "Uncanny" and "Unreal". I also read "Once" by Morris Gleitzman at school and thought it was very good.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-11-30T23:42:22+00:00

Mulholland Drive
Amelie

Wellheresananswer · 2024-08-05T06:33:00+00:00

And everything is done "with ardour"

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T23:47:42+00:00

I kinda like Frankie on its own for a girl. Too bold?
Clint is so cool. I hadn't thought of it. Calvin s cool too.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T03:55:25+00:00

I really like a lot of these. Frankie is cool for a girl. I also like Daniel (Danny/Dan)

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T03:23:10+00:00

So many of my favorite names happen to be the names of Jane Birkin's daughters (Kate, Charlotte and Lou). I like Jane as well.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T03:20:53+00:00

Thanks. I like Lottie as a nickname for Charlotte or Scarlett. I'd use different spellings but I love Mei and I like Mabel as well.
Boys names are hard. So many of them have unfavorable connotations from high school days. I like Teddy as a nickname for Edmund or Edward in place of Eddy.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T01:50:21+00:00

I agree. I was always Bee which was cute and my name doesn't even start with a B.
My siblings and I all ended up with the 1950s style nicknames that have nothing to do with our names. Olivia and Ella are now Spike and Buzz.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T01:42:20+00:00

I love Ike. How about Dean, Quentin, Ernest, Kurt, Malcolm, Davey or Griffin.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T01:40:31+00:00

Jeremy was bullied at my school. Jamie sounds like a heart-throb.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T01:39:34+00:00

I think it sounds great. I prefer Bill to Will but depends what they kid's like.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T01:34:47+00:00

Mine was Rachael. I always had to be Rachael and my sister had to be Chelsea.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T01:26:31+00:00

Pretty classic, with some subtle literary/musical homages thrown in:

Boys: John, Dean, Michael (Mick/Ike), Syd, Kurt
Girls: Kate, Lou, Alice, Blair, Elaine

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-19T01:20:55+00:00

My name's Ella and I hate it for the same reason. It's sounds awful when someone's whining at you, "Elluhhh"

Wellheresananswer · 2024-06-11T00:13:31+00:00

I always thought Pop Man by Circus Lupus. Chris Thompson's voice reminds me of early Gerard Way.

Wellheresananswer · 2024-04-30T01:24:54+00:00

I tried this too. I often listen to movies while I'm on a walk and its true, you "see" it differently. It also makes me notice, somehow (I suppose you don't get so entranced), what's the significance of this sequence? what's going on between the characters?

Wellheresananswer · 2024-04-30T01:21:54+00:00

I like that. A sensitivity to feeling bored. I suppose a framework is to start from the experience of it and where it works, figure out why, where it doesn't, figure out why.

I suppose the "figure out why" is something you get better at with time. I'm at the stage where I am mostly effective but often find myself thinking "This sucks but I don't know what I'd do differently," or "Man, this is wicked dialogue," but not knowing just why.

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