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.
Why couldn't you be dealing drugs like normal people?
Snyder ,'Empty Places'
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."
megan walker - May 16, 2012 11:56:35 am PDT #18773 of 28333
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ginger - May 16, 2012 11:58:32 am PDT #18774 of 28333
"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 28333
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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 28333
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 28333
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.
megan walker - May 16, 2012 1:21:08 pm PDT #18778 of 28333
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Not particularly helpful, but your post reminds me how much I loved these as a kid and how I'd love to have a full set. (I still have Five Peas in a Pod/Prince Ahmed and The Enchanted Princess/The House in the Forest at home.)
Scrappy - May 16, 2012 1:27:56 pm PDT #18779 of 28333
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I loved this book, as have my various nieces and nephews: [link]
Consuela - May 16, 2012 1:34:23 pm PDT #18780 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Scrappy, I adored the Daulaire collection: I can still see the yellow cover in my mind's eye.
flea - May 16, 2012 1:43:08 pm PDT #18781 of 28333
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For Mother Goose, we have loved the Rosemary Wells one: [link]
Kate P. - May 16, 2012 1:46:42 pm PDT #18782 of 28333
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
That's a great one, Scrappy! I had that as a kid and LOVED it, and recently bought another copy of that one and their book of Norse myths too. I definitely credit that book with instilling in me a love of mythology.