'Life of the Party'
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."
Heh -- I'm still the fastest reader in the fam, but not by a huge margin. My mom's the slowest -- it takes her 2 WHOLE DAYS to get through a book!
If my mom or dad was being stubborn, I'd just wait till they'd gone to bed, and stay up and read whatever I was impatient to get my hot little hands on.
So when I was in Chicago, I visited Myopic Books, which I had visited with Buffistas so many years ago, and I found all four Uglies books in great condition. And since Scott Westerfeld is going to be at Comic-Con, I've been wanting to read them before then. I'm excited!
My theoretical kid would be so sad...my current book is "The Shock Doctrine" and the screwing that's in it isn't the "read the dirty bits," kind.
Well HKF's response to Cass' family bookletting rule was a combo of "you snooze you lose" and "this is really good mom. I'd tell you more but I don't want to spoil it.". Oh child of my heart. Give me back my book.
I have to think about my top three secondary worlds.
Re: True Grit--my dad has read the book and now seen both film versions. He loves the book, loved the Wayne version just because it was John Wayne, but after we saw the Coen Brothers version, he walked out of the theatre saying that, as heretical as it was to say it, he thought that their version was the better adaption of the book.
I thought some buffistas might be interested in the woot shirt of the day link.
So, I kind of missed the fact that ALA is, for some people, all about rock star author signings and free ARCs! But I timed my discovery right, and met and got books signed by Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants) and Mo Willems (if you don't know who Mo Willems is you must not know any children at all) and saw Kate di Camillo (and, in non-children's news, Beverly Jackson at Harlequin.) And I got an ARC of the new book by the Hugo Cabret guy. It was a lot of fun, although some of the people who were super-organized and had schedules and charts of where to be at what time to meet who and get what books were a little scary.
Flea, did you ask Mo Willems when he sleeps? I feel like there's a new Elephant & Piggie book being released every week!
He is clearly very high-energy - he seemed to like talking to people (Dav Pilkey was shy.) I told him my favorite was "There is a Bird on Your Head." Also they had two people dressed up in Elephant and Piggie costumes and doing photo ops, but I forgot my camera.