Hee! I love you people. And the interview is up at our blog!
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kate P. - Apr 14, 2010 7:08:43 am PDT #11263 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kathy A - Apr 14, 2010 7:35:20 am PDT #11264 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Terrific interview, Kate!! Lovelovelove this bit:
We’ve gone from looking at a desert, in which a librarian had to walk into the desert for you and come back with a lump of gold, to a forest, to this huge jungle in which what you want is one apple. And at that point, the librarian can walk into the jungle and come back with the apple. So I think from that point of view, the time of librarians, and the time of libraries—they definitely haven’t gone anywhere.
I'm sending the link to my Intro to Library Sciences classmates!
Frankenbuddha - Apr 14, 2010 7:40:50 am PDT #11265 of 28344
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Gus, don't be Nic Cage's accent in Con Air.
Why didn't you put the bunny back in the box?
Frankenbuddha - Apr 14, 2010 7:43:39 am PDT #11266 of 28344
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Great interview, Kate.
Loved this:
“Alfred Hitchcock, The Three Investigators. You only have one book in the series, but it says on the jacket there are 29 of them. How do we get the rest of them?”
He's such an AWESOME geek!
Kate P. - Apr 14, 2010 8:40:00 am PDT #11267 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Thanks, y'all! ...Aaaaaaaand, now our site is down. Blarg.
DavidS - Apr 14, 2010 8:41:40 am PDT #11268 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Your interview crashed it!
More importantly, Kate, do you have all 29 volumes of Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators?
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 7:37:47 am PDT #11269 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I just read the latest Newbery winner, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. It's a fun little YA mystery, and especially fun if you were a fan of A Wrinkle in Time or The $20,000 Pyramid when you were growing up (the story takes place in NYC in the 70s).
Kate P. - Apr 18, 2010 8:09:37 am PDT #11270 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I just bought that one the other day, megan! Looking forward to reading it soon. I loved A Wrinkle in Time, so I'm hoping to be able to pick up most of the allusions.
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 8:17:21 am PDT #11271 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
You don't have to have read it, but it gives the story an extra layer of depth if you have. In fact, it redeemed A Wrinkle in Time for me a little bit. (I read it again not that long ago and had been disappointed because I felt it didn't really hold up as an adult and I was so sad I had chosen to reread it.)
This book was extra fun for me because the main character was born just about when I was.
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 9:06:53 am PDT #11272 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I should warn you, you will probably figure out the mystery, especially if you've read another book I won't mention here, but I still thought it was fun.