I'd love to friend your LJ, by the way, because I lurk there a lot. I love to read what you write. I think you share my brain sometimes.
Oh, friend away, by all means! What's your LJ nom de plume?
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Steph L. - Jan 02, 2005 4:52:26 pm PST #757 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Amy - Jan 02, 2005 4:55:26 pm PST #758 of 10002
Because books.
What's your LJ nom de plume?
It's amy37. I'll do it now. And then I have to finish freelance copyediting before I conk out. Bleh.
Susan W. - Jan 02, 2005 5:10:35 pm PST #759 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I was glancing through an abridged version of Anne of Green Gables at the bookstore today. It was horrid. They didn't just remove sections, they totally rewrote everything. All that beautiful description gone, with just simple declarative sentences in its place.
I want to find everyone involved in creating this atrocity and beat them up.
erikaj - Jan 02, 2005 5:13:45 pm PST #760 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
That's just ignorant. Keeping in mind, I didn't find Anne till I was almost too old anyway.
Susan W. - Jan 02, 2005 5:20:57 pm PST #761 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I never read Anne until college. I missed a lot of great children's and YA literature at the proper age because as soon as I could read well enough I started reading my mom's library books and picking out books from the adult section.
SailAweigh - Jan 02, 2005 5:23:15 pm PST #762 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I did the same thing, Susan. I jumped from children's books to adult stuff around 11-12. I remember reading "Rosemary's Baby" around the time we left Milwaukee and I was 11 then.
erikaj - Jan 02, 2005 5:23:57 pm PST #763 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I think that is what happened for me too.
SailAweigh - Jan 02, 2005 5:27:18 pm PST #764 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
It didn't help that I had brothers 3 and 5 years older, too. I was always picking up their stuff and reading it. It's probably one of the reasons I was such a sci fi freak in my teens, it's about all I read exclusively.
Jessica - Jan 02, 2005 5:37:38 pm PST #765 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Re NYC: what ever happened to La Nouvelle Justine? The sadomasochist themed restaurant? They had great, uhm, cheesecake.
Still there, as far as I know. (Although now that I think about it, it's been nearly 3 years since anyone I know was a regular there.)
I must have skimmed -- who's coming here? When?
Ginger - Jan 02, 2005 5:37:49 pm PST #766 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ah, the warmth of Little Women love. I had also meant to comment on AmyLiz's tag, because I almost used it myself for Christmas. I'm afraid I know a lot of Little Women by heart, because I read it (and Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom and An Old-Fashioned Girl) whenever I'm sick or depressed.
You're never too old for Anne of Green Gables. Eventually you're too old for some of the sequels, because they're not as good when you're not in the white-hot flame of Anne love.
I still like young adult novels. For a while there, they and mysteries were the last bastions of the plot.