My introduction to Hamlet was the musical version from Gilligan's Island. Actually, not a bad way to introduce a six-year-old to Shakespeare.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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."
Fred Pete - Sep 03, 2010 4:24:30 am PDT #12288 of 28333
Ann, that's a ferret.
Aims - Sep 03, 2010 4:37:36 am PDT #12289 of 28333
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I got a library book for Em last summer that was some of the plays turned into a picture stories. It had The Tempest, R&J, Ado, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen ... I can't remember what other ones - maybe just those. But it was awesome.
I'm trying to get Em into Shakespeare - or at the very least, have a working knowledge of it so that it doesn't intimidate her to the point of disliking it intensely, like I went through. There's a whole Shakespeare for kids series that I think she's going to get for Christmas.
Ginger - Sep 03, 2010 5:28:40 am PDT #12290 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Sigh. Kirsten Miller was supposed to be in the my area of the book festival talking about her new book, The Eternal Ones, and then talking about Kiki Strike on the teen stage, but now she's only going to do the teen stage, so I won't be able to see her.
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2010 6:27:57 am PDT #12291 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man, I'm dying for a new Kiki Strike book.
DawnK - Sep 03, 2010 6:48:49 am PDT #12292 of 28333
giraffe mode
Man, I'm dying for a new Kiki Strike book.
Oh man, me too! Oh Steph I got an email from my brother today saying that the new Skullduggery book was winging it's way to me. Now that the kids are in school I have a better chance of getting my hands on it first yay!
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2010 6:52:00 am PDT #12293 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I got an email from my brother today saying that the new Skullduggery book was winging it's way to me.
I ordered it from Amazon UK, and it's on its way, but the e-mail said the estimated delivery date is Sept. 21. I'm DYING here! IIRC, when I ordered book 4, the estimated delivery date was 3 weeks but it got here in more like 10-14 days. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Kathy A - Sep 03, 2010 6:52:57 am PDT #12294 of 28333
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For me, the thing that got me into really liking Shakespeare was actually performing it. I was the Apothecary (and a roving vendor in the opening scene) in R&J in high school, and fell in love with the language and plotline. In college, my freshman lit prof made it a point to have us read the plays out loud when we got to WS, assigning us our parts for the day (when we read Lear, all the girls were fighting for Regan and Goneril!).
DawnK - Sep 03, 2010 6:54:13 am PDT #12295 of 28333
giraffe mode
I told my bro that I'd pay for overnight shipping but he'd already sent it.
flea - Sep 03, 2010 7:44:11 am PDT #12296 of 28333
information libertarian
Ginger, we were going to go to the festival but now we are not. Next year, though!
Casper has a classmate named Cassius. He does not look especially learn or hungry. Whether or not he thinks to much and is dangerous is yet to be seen.
Fred Pete - Sep 03, 2010 7:49:33 am PDT #12297 of 28333
Ann, that's a ferret.
Boys are dangerous, pretty much by definition. But it's more likely because of not thinking, not thinking too much.