Aw, I had forgotten dressing the chicken, but it's coming back to me.
I mean, let's say you did kill us. Or didn't. There could be torture. Whatever. But somehow you found the goods. What would your cut be?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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."
-t - Mar 20, 2017 2:11:06 pm PDT #24424 of 28260
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Amy - Mar 20, 2017 2:57:46 pm PDT #24425 of 28260
Because books.
It looks the original books were from the '60s, and the new ones (written mostly in the '90s by a family member) focused on Amelia as a child.
I have such an urge to go back and read the first original one. Dressing the chicken and dusting the furniture is coming back to me, too!
Gris - Mar 20, 2017 3:39:45 pm PDT #24426 of 28260
Hey. New board.
I read that one recently to my son. It was at my mother-in-law's house. He liked it! Dusting the furniture, dressing the chicken, drawing the curtains. Puns.
sj - Mar 20, 2017 4:33:14 pm PDT #24427 of 28260
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I had one Amelia Bedelia book as a kid. It was an I Can Read book, and I think it had something to do with baseball, maybe?
Kate P. - Mar 20, 2017 7:11:30 pm PDT #24428 of 28260
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yeah, we recently read the original Amelia Bedelia book to Rose (it was in a Little Free Library -- score!), and she loved it. Dressing the chicken and drawing the drapes were her favorites. We found another one where she gets fired and goes around town trying to find a new job, which was less funny to me (or maybe it's just that the premise wears thin after a while), but I think Rose liked them both.
Amy - Mar 21, 2017 6:01:21 am PDT #24429 of 28260
Because books.
zuisa - Mar 21, 2017 7:01:06 am PDT #24430 of 28260
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Got a little sidetracked by other projects, but I finished Code Name Verity last night. Sat blubbering on my couch for a bit, but dang. What a story.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2017 6:51:47 am PDT #24431 of 28260
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
On the kids' books front, I've been re-reading Nancy Drew books, and at least as far as I've gotten (part-way through the third), they are totally non-offensive! Which was kind of a relief, to be honest. As long as you don't mind that she's apparently out of high school with no plans for college, I think these are totally safe to recommend to modern kids.
Sue - Mar 26, 2017 7:35:45 am PDT #24432 of 28260
hip deep in pie
Jesse, they were edited in the 60s or 70s? So if you find early editions, there's a fair bit of casual racism in them.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2017 7:39:16 am PDT #24433 of 28260
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now THAT does not surprise me! So, the go-ahead only applies to the edited version where all the servants are (apparently) white and half the villains are noticeable by their pale blue eyes.