I just read Knuffle Bunny Free to Em for the first time.
Not on, Aimee, sobbing as you read to your child. Not on.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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."
Aims - Feb 08, 2011 2:35:34 pm PST #13909 of 28282
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hayden - Feb 08, 2011 4:32:03 pm PST #13910 of 28282
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh jeez, Aimee, that one could make Lee Marvin bawl.
Jessica - Feb 09, 2011 4:20:52 am PST #13911 of 28282
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh Aims, I'm sorry - if I'd known I would have warned you!
(Seriously, anyone else with appropriately aged children for this book - you will need at LEAST three practice reads in order to get through it without bawling. Take the book with you into the bathroom and read it out loud in front of the mirror. You'll thank me later.)
Aims - Feb 09, 2011 4:28:25 am PST #13912 of 28282
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The letter to Trixie at the end? BROKEN AIMEE.
But, oh so very good.
ChiKat - Feb 09, 2011 5:12:20 am PST #13913 of 28282
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Some friends of mine just told me about Knuffle Bunny a couple of weeks ago. Just their re-telling of it made me cry!
Kat - Feb 09, 2011 7:35:18 am PST #13914 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Megan, I had another thought about a food piece of writing: James Joyce's The Dead.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2011 7:39:03 am PST #13915 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's actually a lot of food porn in the Narnia Chronicles
Enid Blyton would get me cross-eyed about food I couldn't have, especially the tuck boxes in the boarding school books. And LotR is about a lot of things, but those hobbits sure did like feeding.
sumi - Feb 09, 2011 7:59:37 am PST #13916 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
New novel with mystery and supernatural elements written by a former writer for Doctor Who.
sumi - Feb 09, 2011 8:56:41 am PST #13917 of 28282
Art Crawl!!!
Washington Post piece on the man who is The Tolkien Professor online and in itunes. (There is a podcast and it starts up when you open his website.)
Connie Neil - Feb 09, 2011 9:07:30 am PST #13918 of 28282
brillig
"I don't think he's heard of Second Breakfast."