Spike ,'Get It Done'
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."
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.
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.
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.
So far it's totally YA dystopia before that was A Thing, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it unfolds.
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!
I just had a convo about The Giver and how I have read it, but how unimpressed I am by it.
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.
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.
Mysteries with Ulysses Grant as the detective.
A storytelling game kickstarter: [link] with some familiar names already and more to come.