There is sidewalk chalk. Sadly not black and white.
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
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."
hippocampus - May 16, 2012 11:29:55 am PDT #18767 of 28332
not your mom's socks.
Jesse - May 16, 2012 11:36:01 am PDT #18768 of 28332
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't think I've read those since I was a kid, either, but she was just so cool and exciting and glamorous to my 12-y-o self.
Connie Neil - May 16, 2012 11:51:23 am PDT #18769 of 28332
brillig
I've got The Secret Adversary on my Nook, but I'm having a hard time with it. I first read it years and years ago and loved it, but it's not as fun this time. I've also got Mysterious Affair at Styles which I've never read, so I'm hoping unfamiliarity will help.
DavidS - May 16, 2012 11:52:32 am PDT #18770 of 28332
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't think I've read those since I was a kid, either, but she was just so cool and exciting and glamorous to my 12-y-o self.
Have you seen the British miniseries?
Jesse - May 16, 2012 11:54:13 am PDT #18771 of 28332
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Probably not.
DavidS - May 16, 2012 11:55:46 am PDT #18772 of 28332
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It featured the super lovely and cool Francesca Annis. Tommy & Tuppence.
megan walker - May 16, 2012 11:56:35 am PDT #18773 of 28332
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Every few years I decide I'm going to reread all my Agatha Christies (chronologically, natch) and get to about Roger Ackroyd and then get distracted. So I've read The Mysterious Affair at Styles more times than I can count. It's not the best, but it is the first.
Ginger - May 16, 2012 11:58:32 am PDT #18774 of 28332
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I read Sherlock Holmes at that age. That was also when I became completely obsessed with Rosemary Sutcliff and Roman Britain. It's a good age to fall in love with something.
Connie Neil - May 16, 2012 12:33:06 pm PDT #18775 of 28332
brillig
I devoured everything in the library on Ancient Egypt about then. Darn those teachers for not letting me hang out in the library during recess. I didn't want to "go play!"
erikaj - May 16, 2012 12:36:08 pm PDT #18776 of 28332
Always Anti-fascist!
I would have felt like "Dude(except you can't call your teacher Dude unless it really is Mr. Lebowski) I am!" But I got by with things like that by being special and tragic.