'Unleashed'
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."
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.
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.
On the up side, the public library children's librarian has been very helpful about nonfiction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chinua Achebe passed away link.
Not sure where this goes, but the Lizzie Bennet Diaries vlog-to-dvd project just got way more than their Kickstarter goal: [link]
Awesome! I got way behind, so now I can watch it on my own schedule.