Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Have any of you folks who like YA read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series? It's not really YA, but it's really well done and very fast pace and entertaining.
I heard a story on NPR yesterday about a bookstore that does a Percy Jackson and the Olympians *camp* (I assume a day camp) for kids. Fun!
I loved The Westing Game.
I heard that too, Steph. About book day camps in general, yes?
About book day camps in general, yes?
Was it? I may have only heard the part about the Percy Jackson camp. Still, when I heard it, I thought that I would have KILLED for such a thing when I was a kid. Buncha nerds, just like me!
Oh, yeah, I loved mythology too. I was all about Greek when I was in school, and then when I was working for the gaming company, I had an assignment that allowed me to discover Norse mythology and I was all blissed out for a while. That was a great job, and was also responsible for large amounts of beautifully illustrated and photographed collection of arms and armor books. Hmm. I lost my grammar somewhere halfway through that sentence, but you know what I mean.
My books are currently in book anarchy. The SO organized them post-move but I haven`t kept it up. When it`s in order, it`s non-fic by subject, fic alpha by author, then chronologically within authors. I am currently building my Pratchett collection chronologically and have gotten as far as Soul Music. It`s at a fun section in the middle that I haven`t read. Library has old and new ones but not these.
So, I went to the library to get my book for our third book salon topic (Russian Roulette). War and Peace is an even bigger doorstop than Don Quixote.
My copy of Mockingjay has shipped.
::ponders the wisdom of calling in sick the first week of classes to read::
Mine too!!
I was all about Greek when I was in school
Me too! I am the reason my whole family can sing the Greek alphabet (it totally works with the alphabet song - the extra syllables make up for fewer letters).
My (then five-year-old) brother made up the adapted ending:
Now I know my alpha beta gamma
Next time won't you come riding on a llama?
Hah--in intro languages class in 7th grade we learned a different alphabet song for the Greek alphabet. I can still sing it but I suspect I grt one or two o the letters wrong. It's a fun song though.