I read the first Montmaray book but not the sequels
I loved the first one but the third one is the most powerful.
Jayne: 'Cause I don't know these folks. Don't much care to. Mal: They're whores. Jayne: I'm in.
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Consuela - Mar 18, 2013 7:06:08 am PDT #20550 of 28359
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
lisah - Mar 18, 2013 7:10:50 am PDT #20551 of 28359
Punishingly Intricate
I should see if the local children's bookstore had both sequels!
Kate P. - Mar 18, 2013 9:56:40 am PDT #20552 of 28359
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
flea, you might add some of James Marshall's books, especially the George and Martha books. Also, there's just a huge wealth of fantastic picture books being published these days, so I hope you've got some room to add recent/new books and not just the classics.
- BookPage's best children's books of 2012: >[link]
- Caldecott winners & honor books, 1938-2012: >[link]
- Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, a blog dedicated to picture books: >[link]
flea - Mar 18, 2013 10:02:48 am PDT #20553 of 28359
information libertarian
The problem is almost all large picture books, and most books published in 2012-2013, are close to $20 from our vendor. So, budget-busters. Wah.
flea - Mar 18, 2013 10:03:29 am PDT #20554 of 28359
information libertarian
On the up side, the public library children's librarian has been very helpful about nonfiction.
Kat - Mar 18, 2013 10:12:43 am PDT #20555 of 28359
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
flea, I may have missed it, but are you looking only for recently published?
The CA Young Readers Medal has good picture books, and pic books for older readers. If you go back a few years then you'd be able to get the picture books in paper. Also they have both nominees and finalists, so the lists can be lengthy -- good up for middle fiction too, which is 3rd appropriate.
Gris - Mar 20, 2013 8:14:54 am PDT #20556 of 28359
Hey. New board.
Count me among those who think the ending of Gone Girl is rather perfect. Not satisfying in any way, but perfect.
Man, that book was addictive.
Amy - Mar 20, 2013 8:31:28 am PDT #20557 of 28359
Because books.
flea, are you still book-shopping? A couple other picture book favorites:
The Library, Sarah Stewart
Rachel Fister's Blister, Amy MacDonald
If I Were a Lion, Sarah Weeks
Diane Goode also has a few really lovely picture books with the most charming illustrations. Where's Our Mama? is gorgeous and set in 1920s Paris.
Also, if you can find anything by Alison Lester, get it. She's Australian, and the books were some of Sara's every-freaking-night favorites.
Volans - Mar 21, 2013 11:42:02 am PDT #20558 of 28359
move out and draw fire
Hey - I posted this on FB, but it's worthy of posting here, and a fun mental exercise. I've been raving about the Harry Potter fanfic Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality recently. It's long, and not yet done, and awesome, like Douglas Hofstadter wrapped in pop culture references. I mean, there's a lagniappe that mashes up Anita Blake and Paul Erdos. Could it BE more Buffista? It could not.
Anyway, whether you've read that or not, a couple fans of it decided to put together the House reading lists for rationalist Hogwarts students. [link] My actual bookshelves are a mix of the Ravenclaw and Slytherin lists, which is probably about right.
Hil R. - Mar 21, 2013 5:05:59 pm PDT #20559 of 28359
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I (finally) finished reading Les Miserables. Long, but good. And the melodrama in the musical doesn't even remotely approach the melodrama in the book.