Oh boy, Knuffle Bunny Free. That one is a parent-killer.
Oh, I get it. You just don't like who did the rescuing, that's all. Wishin' I was your boyfriend what's-his-height. Oh wait, he's run off.
Spike ,'Potential'
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."
Hayden - Jul 06, 2011 8:57:20 am PDT #15592 of 28293
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
DawnK - Jul 06, 2011 9:34:09 am PDT #15593 of 28293
giraffe mode
Oh boy, Knuffle Bunny Free. That one is a parent-killer.
I was an idiot and read it stadning in the children's section at B&N - I don't even HAVE little kids, but it gutted me. I made my 19 y.o. daughter read it.
Toddson - Jul 06, 2011 10:27:07 am PDT #15594 of 28293
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Mother-daughter bonding at its sniffliest?
DawnK - Jul 06, 2011 11:13:38 am PDT #15595 of 28293
giraffe mode
Mother-daughter bonding at its sniffliest?
Yes! I got "God MOM! Why did you make me read that? Can we get it?"
askye - Jul 06, 2011 5:42:50 pm PDT #15596 of 28293
Thrive to spite them
Another children's book that made me cry - Peach and Blue. Mom bought for me when I was an adult because SHE read it in the store and cried.
Actually she was in the bookstore and another woman was holding the book and crying and Mom asked her if she was okay. And the woman told her about Peach and Blue, so Mom read it and started crying and then gave it to me. And then I tell people about it with the thought they'll read it and cry.
Here's the book [link]
It's about a frog named Blue and a Peach named Peach and the cover is a picture from one of the saddest and sweetest parts of the book.
DavidS - Jul 06, 2011 6:20:24 pm PDT #15597 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
( Hotel New Hampshire seems to hit ALL the themes)
Yeah, Irving wrapped up all his thematic hobby horses with one big bow in that one, and then went off to play with new toys. Bears, Austria, Whores, Wrestling...
hippocampus - Jul 07, 2011 5:22:02 am PDT #15598 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
Dan Brown. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I loved Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky, by the way. Thank very much for the recs. And I'm ashamed to admit that I haven't read Knuffle Bunny, and I'm a mom. That's probably like admitting having never read Chaucer, when you're an English professor.
In the meantime, I'm supposed to be going to the DMV, but instead, I'm finding all sorts of quotations from the 18thc. that make today's YA/Romance is Dangerous For Your Brain debates sound oh so old and tired. Please do tell me if I sound like a horse's rear end. [link]
Since I wrote that, I don't have to go to the DMV now, right?
sumi - Jul 07, 2011 6:29:24 am PDT #15599 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Interview with Elizabeth Betts about Snowman and Harry de Leyer the subjects of her new book The $80 Champion.
Steph L. - Jul 07, 2011 6:47:10 am PDT #15600 of 28293
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jilli (and anyone else), have you started Heartless yet? I started it last night, and I...have some doubts about the "adoption" plan. But I'm still all aflutter over New!Book.
sumi - Jul 07, 2011 7:01:42 am PDT #15601 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Tor.com has a Catch-up for A Song of Ice and Fire in case you haven't finished your re-read prior to Tuesday.
It is, of course, spoilery for anyone who hasn't read up through A Feast for Crows.