Ooh, I loved Elizabeth Enright, though got a bit confused over some of the old-fashioned terminology. Also loved Edward Eager. And E Nesbit!!
(Hi, we're buffistas. We could recommend books ALL DAY LONG)
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
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."
meara - May 24, 2011 8:24:15 am PDT #14888 of 28287
meara - May 24, 2011 8:25:42 am PDT #14889 of 28287
hippocampus - May 24, 2011 8:48:47 am PDT #14890 of 28287
not your mom's socks.
(Hi, we're buffistas. We could recommend books ALL DAY LONG)
Yes, this is one of the many reasons why I love us.
Elizabeth Enright! Gone-Away Lake! The Melanies! The Four Story Mistake!
with emphasis! Love love love.
Is she too young for Edward Eager, Sox?
not sure - looking
Ginger - May 24, 2011 8:56:11 am PDT #14891 of 28287
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I still reread the Melendys and Gone-Away Lake every few years. I was grateful to Harry Potter's success, which got the Edward Eager books reprinted.
Also, there's Caddie Woodlawn, Blue Willow and Lois Lenski's books. I love Roller Skates, but she may be a bit young.
Sophia Brooks - May 24, 2011 9:17:50 am PDT #14892 of 28287
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
One of my first chapter books, and I still re-read it, was The Boxcar Children. I recently read some of the sequals, where they solved mysteries, but they are not as good. I would, probably enjoy them still if I were a child.
Amy- I loved Jane-Emily but it scared me! The cover was freaky.
Typo Boy - May 24, 2011 9:19:12 am PDT #14893 of 28287
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Sam the bat? I think that is short enough for you and great for pretty damn young on up.
hippocampus - May 24, 2011 11:11:21 am PDT #14894 of 28287
not your mom's socks.
HKF picked out a Judy Moody, another Ivy & Bean and a Junie B. Jones at the library. She was eying the magic tree house books too but I told her to start with what she could carry. I'm such a killjoy.
Strix - May 24, 2011 12:55:23 pm PDT #14895 of 28287
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
OMG, Lenny Kravitz cast as Cinna in The Hunger Games.
I actually really like that!
Laga - May 25, 2011 8:14:55 am PDT #14896 of 28287
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Someone's left a copy of Leon Uris's Trinity in the living room. I've always wanted to read that. I pick it up and flip to chapter one. Wait a minute... this is so familiar. I have read it. And ordinarily no big deal, I forgot a book. But I retained Nothing! Of centuries of Irish history. And I know if I reread it, I will remember it, only about a chapter in advance. I'm so mad at my brain right now.
In DFW news, I just finished the part with Tony Krause withdrawing on the subway. I remember way back when we met Orrin and the cockroaches thinking at least it's not ants. Silly girl. So, are we about done with the ant imagery or can I get a heads up for future bits to skim?
megan walker - May 25, 2011 8:24:46 am PDT #14897 of 28287
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Great, now I have "This land is mine, God gave this land to me..." stuck in my head.