In the second half of the first chapter of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How Lovely Are Thy Branches,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the kids navigate the treacherous terrain of ASKING PARENTS FOR PERMISSION. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
THIS IS THE CONTENT I SIGNED UP FOR. I was deeply amused by this because I recognize, at its core, what Duane has tapped into here: that terrible fear of asking your parents for permission to do something. Obviously, that was an exaggerated experience for someone like me, who only successfully got permission from their parents like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 twice? Maybe<\/i> three times ever. Oh, I tried<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. I attempted many different techniques, such as:<\/p>\n You get the idea. I failed at pretty much all of these, though it took time in junior high for me to finally realize that my problem wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in my technique, but in the end result. My mother simply wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to let me do anything for any<\/i> reason. The one time I had a friend over was in seventh grade, and that was because it was mandatory that we work with someone on a project outside of class. My mother refused to let me go to my friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s class, so she had to come to mine. I swear to you, my mother told<\/i> my friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother that she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust any of them TO THEIR FACES!!!<\/p>\n Anyway, even if I never found the success that Nita, Kit, and Carmela do here, I completely knew what Duane was writing about in this chapter. Kit and Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s play-by-play was hilarious, too, because any of you who have other siblings probably recognize the same song-and-dance. Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it deeply amusing when a sibling misreads a situation and asks permission terribly<\/i>? FEW THINGS ARE MORE ENJOYABLE.<\/p>\n That being said: THERE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GONNA BE A HUGE PARTY AT THE RODRIGUEZ HOUSE. Part of me wants Darryl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parents to be there because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent so little time with them, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to know them more, but I appreciated the conversation had about him. (I HOPE HE MAKES IT.) But the sheer weirdness of this get-together is made better by the fact that this is the first of its kind at the Rodriguez<\/i> home. We know how Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s did dealt with this conundrum in A Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Holiday<\/i>, but what about Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Carmela\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parents? Will Helena come home for Christmas? PLEASE LET HER BE THERE. How can she believe in mutants if she meets actual<\/i> aliens?<\/p>\n Like Carmela, I am very<\/i> excited for this party.<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/uqg9N6hw-9U<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – My YA contemporary debut, ANGER IS A GIFT<\/a>, is now available for pre-order!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>If you’d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the second half of the first chapter of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How Lovely Are Thy Branches,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the kids navigate the treacherous terrain of ASKING PARENTS FOR PERMISSION. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,510],"tags":[513,536,511],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interim-errantry","category-young-wizards","tag-diane-duane","tag-how-lovely-are-thy-branches","tag-mark-reads-young-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n