We received this book to give an honest review. 

K and I have read about the Sockkids before and enjoyed the adventure they went on. In this story we meet Ethan and Olivia and of course Sudsy and Wooly. The new kid Olivia keeps to herself and when Ethan sees that she enjoys reading like him he wants to make friends with her until a group of boys start picking on him because of it. When they tear up his book the sockkids Wooly and Sudsy come to the rescue and in doing so help introduce Olivia to Ethan. It goes to show that just because you are bullied you don't have to stay silent. Though I would have liked to have seen what the consequences to the boys that were bullying Ethan and others. 

After this incident it seems that Olivia and Ethan along with two other children become friends. 

As a parent I thought this was a good book to read to K and I truly enjoyed at the end of the story the information on bullying. From a small quiz to asking questions on if you are getting bullied.

This book is more for the ages maybe 7 on up just because the sentences are longer and I think that age group might understand the story a lot more than the younger kids. 

Not a big purchasing month, which is totally ok. I'm not including single issue comics because most of those I would end up having to add and it would take too long.

I finished this late last night and I'm still not 100% sure on my feelings about it.  I guess the best that I can say was that it was okay.  I wasn't overly wowed with anything, but I don't feel a complete resounding hatred toward the author for butchering two of my favorite literary characters. I definitely cannot say that I'm happy with Ms. Ripley's take on Scarlett or Rhett either.  They both were just missing that spark that made Gone With the Wind the book that it was, but I don't think that ANYONE other than Margaret Mitchell is capable of writing those two properly.  

If I try to look at Scarlett as a separate entity from Gone with the Wind it comes just comes across as middle of the road fan fiction.  And let's face it, that is pretty much what it was. I was happy to see Scarlett finally grow into a woman and a mother, but it was also sad for me to see her lose that stubborn drive to always get what she wants.  The only thing I ever really saw from her in Scarlett was her running.  She runs from Atlanta, then Charleston, then Savannah, then Ireland. She sets goals , and when they didn't happen, she accepts defeat.  Scarlett does not accept defeat, she may lick her wounds for a bit, but she always jumps back in.  She fights and will do it dirty if necessary.  I missed that in her.  As for Rhett.  Well, I won't even go into that one.  

Anyway, back to the point.  By the end of this, I definitely realized that I needed to forget that this is a sequel.  It isn't a sequel, in my opinion. There really can't be a sequel that isn't written by Margaret Mitchell.  However, it was interesting to read someone else's opinion to how their love story ends up.  It was a little cheesy, and definitely not how I would have ever ended things for Rhett and Scarlett, but it was okay entertainment.    

I forced the husband to go with me to see Gone With the Wind in theater yesterday and decided to celebrate the fact that he didn't divorce me over it by finally reading Scarlett.  I don't have good feelings about it thus far, but oh well, I'm going to get my HEA.  

I finally found a used book store relatively close to my house and I ended up going a little crazy there.  But who can complain when you leave with 11 books and only spent $30.  No one, that's who.  I'm pretty sure that my husband is going to give the lady who owns it a hug since our bank account is no longer going to suffer through only having a Barnes & Noble for the majority of my book purchasing "problem".  So, here's a few that I picked up.  A couple of them of were books that I already had, but are severely beat up ( i.e. Harry Potter series) so I bought new ones.  The guy who checked me out hit my serial killer section first, then got to Scarlett.  He paused for a bit before he continued.  I wish he would have said what he was thinking..

A side note, my poor Mac was in the Apple store for a while.  It's back and I can finally actually use it.  So maybe I can get back to posting a little more often.