Excitement and a Few Questions

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On account that there is a chance to meet-up with Megan within a five hour drive traversable distance of my hometown I began my perilous quest to convince my mother it is worth driving to. Upon the successful completion of my venture, #5 (my ten-year old brother), asked if he could go too. My mother responded that he could, only if he read the books before the scheduled day, no doubt assuming that he wouldn't even if he could. I, who had been looking for an excuse to read the books aloud and perfect my voices for each character, volunteered to read them to him. We started TT yesterday and are now on chapter nine of QoA, half of which has been read aloud and the other half he read without me because he got tired of waiting. =)

 

Anyway, the point is I now have another family-member who has read the books and (finally) someone who I think loves them as much as I do. When we reached the end of TT, the part where Gen talks about Archimedes, he randomly burst into uncontrollable laughter. Apparently he has just finished studying Archimedes in school. He hasn't shut up about the books since we started them and has brought up some interesting questions. The one that has stumped me though is: "Is Gen in any way descended from Eugenides the god?" Also, one that I've come across as an actor reading the books aloud for the first time, what does the Eddisian accent sound like? The accent is mentioned in KoA but I haven't yet found one that I like, any opinions? Is it strange that I mentally squee every time I think about CoK coming soon?