Wash ,'Ariel'
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."
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.)
The letter to Trixie at the end? BROKEN AIMEE.
But, oh so very good.
Some friends of mine just told me about Knuffle Bunny a couple of weeks ago. Just their re-telling of it made me cry!
Megan, I had another thought about a food piece of writing: James Joyce's The Dead.
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.
New novel with mystery and supernatural elements written by a former writer for Doctor Who.
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.)
"I don't think he's heard of Second Breakfast."
Washington Post piece on the man who is The Tolkien Professor online and in itunes.
He was my colleague at Washington College! Sadly, he wasn't part of our Wednesday night drinking group. Students love him.