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.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
flea - Mar 28, 2014 6:48:07 am PDT #22235 of 28344
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Amy - Mar 28, 2014 6:52:47 am PDT #22236 of 28344
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 28344
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 28344
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 28344
"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 28344
"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 28344
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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 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Mysteries with Ulysses Grant as the detective.
hippocampus - Apr 08, 2014 10:26:48 am PDT #22243 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
A storytelling game kickstarter: [link] with some familiar names already and more to come.
flea - Apr 08, 2014 3:39:43 pm PDT #22244 of 28344
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Correction: the rodent named Baconnaise is a gerbil, not a hamster. I have read the first 15 pages of the Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy and it is very witty and funny, and I didn't even get bothered at all that it's first-person narrator, which normally I hate.