I'm re-reading Mark Reads LotR, and I can't remember if he did the live blog of Return of the King, and I can't figure out where to look.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2012 2:51:48 pm PDT #18522 of 28626
brillig
Polter-Cow - Apr 24, 2012 3:04:49 pm PDT #18523 of 28626
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It was on Mark Watches. Spoiler warning: it destroyed him.
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2012 3:29:04 pm PDT #18524 of 28626
brillig
Thanks, Polter!
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:13:34 am PDT #18525 of 28626
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Question for teaching types from my podcast crush SavidgeReads:
she needs a piece of fiction, it doesn’t have to be massively long, that persuades, in a paragraph or two, another character to do something.
It initially sounds really obvious, and I nearly stated as much on the phone, until I thought about it and was stuck. You see all my examples seemed to be unreliable narrators persuading me they were telling the truth... which takes a whole book. Mum needs some short examples, the characters can be persuading good or bad things from the other, to discuss with the children she teaches.
Hil R. - Apr 25, 2012 5:18:10 am PDT #18526 of 28626
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Several scenes from Anne of Green Gables come to mind -- the one where Anne and Diana swear to be friends, and the one where Jane (I think? Or was it Ruby?) dares Anne to walk along the roof.
Jessica - Apr 25, 2012 5:20:35 am PDT #18527 of 28626
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Sawyer getting out of whitewashing the fence?
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 5:21:24 am PDT #18528 of 28626
Because books.
How old are the students? She could either use Rochester persuading Jane to marry him, or from A Little Princess, the scene where Sara convinces Lottie to stop throwing a tantrum.
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:23:46 am PDT #18529 of 28626
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think the equivalent of early high school. They're in England. As am I currently (in spirit anyway--on a conference call with Brits).
javachik - Apr 25, 2012 5:33:40 am PDT #18530 of 28626
Our wings are not tired.
Too bad Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller aren't fiction. The spelling of the "w-a-t-e-r" scene would be perfect.
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:41:23 am PDT #18531 of 28626
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
One day I will read Anne of Green Gables and A Little Princess. I love the Tom Sawyer idea. From what I know of his mum, she may too.