Yeah, it seems like, for Anne, imagining out the stories is the fun part, and writing them down is just the conventional way of recording them. It seems like she'd be just as happy to be telling her stories to an audience (like her kids) as she would be with publishing them. But with Emily, it's the actual writing, not just making stories, that she loves.
Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.
'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."
Hil R. - Mar 06, 2013 12:03:55 pm PST #20522 of 28359
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Pix - Mar 06, 2013 4:15:41 pm PST #20523 of 28359
The status is NOT quo.
Rediscovering Anne of Green Gables through my sixth graders' eyes has been such a joy. We are having so much fun with it!
Kat - Mar 07, 2013 10:10:09 pm PST #20524 of 28359
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just finished Seraphina which I found surprisingly moving. And I hate books with dragons (to the point that it was a limiting factor in Game of Thrones for me), FWIW.
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2013 1:55:39 pm PST #20525 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I was poking around to see if there was a release date for the next Skulduggery Pleasant book, and apparently it is August 29 (I assume that's UK, not America), and it has a title -- Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men.
So, I'm all excited about this, and THEN I see the author has a novella about Tanith Low being released at the end of this month: [link] (Again, pretty sure that's just UK.)
Holy crap, a book about Tanith. (And, one assumes, Billy-Ray Sanguine.) I am SO THRILLED.
-t - Mar 08, 2013 2:01:11 pm PST #20526 of 28359
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oooh, thanks for posting that, Steph! I have a feeling I would have missed out entirely until someone mentioned having read them otherwise...
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2013 6:45:54 pm PST #20527 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
It was sheer luck. I just got curious and started reading the author's blog, and lo and behold. A Tanith book! Yay!
sumi - Mar 10, 2013 6:50:30 am PDT #20528 of 28359
Art Crawl!!!
All of the Chronicles of Narnia are on kindle for $1.99 today.
Amy - Mar 12, 2013 3:23:49 pm PDT #20529 of 28359
Because books.
The Orange Prize long list.
flea - Mar 17, 2013 12:16:47 pm PDT #20530 of 28359
information libertarian
Our school got into a grant-funded program to promote early literacy, and I've been asked to coordinate it, and so I have to make a list of 640 unique books for K-3 readers that I'd like them to buy us. And it's actually really really hard to choose THAT many books all at once! I am up to 240 after a couple of afternoons of hard work. It's made a bit harder by the budget - I have to be *really* selective about picture books, since they run about $8 over the "average" price per book I have to spend, and I have to only buy books available through a certain vendor so I can't price-hunt.
Amy - Mar 17, 2013 12:35:46 pm PDT #20531 of 28359
Because books.
Still, books!
Post what you've chosen so far, maybe, and we can chime in with suggestions?