A book (for younger readers) about the worst pet EVER.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
Toddson - Mar 28, 2014 6:09:07 am PDT #22233 of 28414
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Polter-Cow - Mar 28, 2014 6:36:24 am PDT #22234 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ooooh, I look forward to seeing whether P-C thinks it's a great book or the greatest book.
I'm really looking forward to it after all the comments here!
I'm not sure how I feel about the Dale narration though.
I loved his Harry Potter and Pushing Daisies narration, so.
I just started The Giver and I can't believe I never read this when I was a kid. I don't think I did? I feel like it was in my house so maybe I did and I just have no memory of it.
flea - Mar 28, 2014 6:48:07 am PDT #22235 of 28414
information libertarian
I didn't read The Giver when I was a kid because I was 21 when it was published, but IIRC that is not your reason.
Amy - Mar 28, 2014 6:52:47 am PDT #22236 of 28414
Because books.
Yeah, I missed that one, too. I'd love to read it, though -- I was a huge fan of some Lois Lowry's earlier (i.e. circa late '70s) books.
Polter-Cow - Mar 28, 2014 7:11:17 am PDT #22237 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So far it's totally YA dystopia before that was A Thing, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it unfolds.
Jesse - Mar 28, 2014 7:49:38 am PDT #22238 of 28414
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I didn't read The Giver when I was a kid because I was 21 when it was published,
Ohhhh! THAT's why I don't know it!
Kat - Mar 28, 2014 7:53:18 am PDT #22239 of 28414
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just had a convo about The Giver and how I have read it, but how unimpressed I am by it.
megan walker - Mar 28, 2014 4:30:39 pm PDT #22240 of 28414
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I just had a convo about The Giver and how I have read it, but how unimpressed I am by it.
In this, we are one.
flea - Apr 08, 2014 4:48:04 am PDT #22241 of 28414
information libertarian
Literary buffistas, especially YA readers, may I recommend The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy by Kate Hattemer ( [link] )? Okay, I haven't read it yet, but the author is the oldest of 8 children, the youngest of whom is a classmate of Casper, and their dad is her soccer coach. Kate's website is adorable ( [link] - she posts about punctuation ) and she gave a reading at the kids' school last fall and Casper loved it, and there's a hamster named Baconnaise in the book, and it's gotten really strong reviews for a first novel, and we're going to the launch party tonight, and you should check it out because I suspect it is very good. The end.
sumi - Apr 08, 2014 7:01:47 am PDT #22242 of 28414
Art Crawl!!!
Mysteries with Ulysses Grant as the detective.