A book (for younger readers) about the worst pet EVER.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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 28377
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Polter-Cow - Mar 28, 2014 6:36:24 am PDT #22234 of 28377
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 28377
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 28377
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 28377
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 28377
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 28377
"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 28377
"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 28377
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 28377
Art Crawl!!!
Mysteries with Ulysses Grant as the detective.