Anyone see anything weird about this?
To add to the weird, I had the EXACT same experience as your friend...with the Tripod series.
One more thumbs up for LHA here. I used to teach Speak, but her books are just amazing in general.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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."
Pix - Aug 17, 2010 9:43:04 pm PDT #11982 of 28342
The status is NOT quo.
Scrappy - Aug 17, 2010 9:56:39 pm PDT #11983 of 28342
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Go Dog Go was my brother Chris' favorite book for a long time. We are still known to greet each other with "Do you like my hat?" "No, I do not like your hat."
Anne W. - Aug 18, 2010 12:49:41 am PDT #11984 of 28342
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Adds many, many books to TBR list.
DavidS - Aug 18, 2010 5:38:26 am PDT #11985 of 28342
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When meara comes to town your first stop will be at a local used bookstore where she will rip through the shelves buying up a basket of OOP Fantasy, SF and YA.
erikaj - Aug 18, 2010 5:51:54 am PDT #11986 of 28342
Always Anti-fascist!
I have read "Does my Head Look Big In This??" For a while, Mom brought home some of the newest YA from the high school and I offered some opinions on them. That was one of the best ones.
megan walker - Aug 18, 2010 5:57:14 am PDT #11987 of 28342
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
As someone with a big, fat head I feel I should read that first.
Kathy A - Aug 18, 2010 6:49:57 am PDT #11988 of 28342
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My mother read to us an hour a day and now she wonders why I have all these books.
Hee!
When I was helping my mom move into her new husband's house, I was packing up her books for her. My new stepsister and her husband were helping, too, and Dawn said to Mom, "You have so many books!" Well, Mom only has three boxes worth. Mom and I looked at each other, busted out laughing, and I told Dawn that when I moved a few months earlier, I had 20 boxes, and that was after I had gotten rid of 10 other boxes of books. Her mouth just hung open for a few seconds in utter disbelief.
Mom doesn't really reread books, so she's a regular library user. She doesn't understand why I need to hang onto my books, nor why I would ever want to reread them. She really doesn't get why I'd reread a book 30 or 40 times, which I have done quite often.
sj - Aug 18, 2010 6:52:35 am PDT #11989 of 28342
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I don't remember the first book I read; I really can't remember life without books. According to my mom at 18 months I had some of my favorite books memorized, and it made my dad think that I could read.
sumi - Aug 18, 2010 7:32:53 am PDT #11990 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
Go, Dog,Go! That was one of my earliest books too. Loved that one.
sumi - Aug 18, 2010 7:33:17 am PDT #11991 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
Almost forgot - apparently Janet Evanovitch is starting a new series - first book comes out early in September.