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.
Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.
'Dirty Girls'
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."
Jesse - May 16, 2012 11:36:01 am PDT #18768 of 28332
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Kate P. - May 16, 2012 12:56:16 pm PDT #18777 of 28332
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Since today is apparently the day to request book suggestions, I'm looking for a good fairytale/folktale collection that young readers would appreciate. Lots of great illustrations would be excellent. A friend who had her baby the day before me mentioned that they hadn't gotten any fairy tales yet, and I wanted to find something good to send to them, but it turns out this is an area I don't actually know much about -- I'm much better with books for older kids. I know of some good editions of individual fairy tales, but would love something that collected a whole bunch. Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, Mother Goose -- I'm not particular, just looking for some classic stories to pass along.