Last night I went to a book trivia night sponsored by the local library and held in my favorite bar. The head librarian said they'd been tasked with more community outreach, and that they were planning to interpret that as "find ways to meet book-loving people in as many local bars as possible". [Your deity here] bless librarians.
Hello? Gay now!
Willow ,'Showtime'
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."
Calli - Jun 02, 2017 9:18:16 am PDT #24614 of 28222
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Toddson - Jun 02, 2017 12:16:00 pm PDT #24615 of 28222
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Books, Booze, Buffistas - a match made in heaven!
Steph L. - Jun 08, 2017 10:57:24 am PDT #24616 of 28222
I look more rad than Lutheranism
New Skulduggery Pleasant book has landed!!! (Too much work and migraine to sit down and read it right now, but I don't even care. It's still on the premises.)
Pix - Jun 08, 2017 5:33:43 pm PDT #24617 of 28222
The status is NOT quo.
CANNOT WAIT.
askye - Jun 11, 2017 7:53:48 am PDT #24618 of 28222
Thrive to spite them
My nephew's 9th birthday is in August. He's already been talking about what he wants and he said he wanted a book about myths. We were taking about them and last year his teacher read from a book of Greek myths and he liked it.
So any suggestions on books of myths suitable for a 9 year old/rising 3rd grader? He reads a little above his grade level on his own. Greek myths and also from other cultures.
Scrappy - Jun 11, 2017 8:18:20 am PDT #24619 of 28222
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I was a huge fan of this book: [link]
askye - Jun 11, 2017 11:57:53 am PDT #24620 of 28222
Thrive to spite them
I think that's a book we had in 4th grade!
The cover brought back some memories. I'll have to get that.
Thanks
Kate P. - Jun 11, 2017 2:42:20 pm PDT #24621 of 28222
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
That's exactly the one I was going to recommend. It's such a fabulous book.
Jessica - Jun 12, 2017 8:38:53 am PDT #24622 of 28222
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So any suggestions on books of myths suitable for a 9 year old/rising 3rd grader? He reads a little above his grade level on his own. Greek myths and also from other cultures.
For that age, Rick Riordan is actually pretty great. There are two Greek mythology books (which are Percy Jackson tie-ins) and I think maybe a Norse collection that ties into Magnus Chase?
Steph L. - Jun 14, 2017 1:24:11 pm PDT #24623 of 28222
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The new Skulduggery Pleasant book has a gender-fluid character in a significant role and a married gay couple with one of the men in a significant role, and the story creditably addresses PTSD. Also, it has a dog. (Is the dog in a significant role? ALL DOGS ARE IN SIGNIFICANT ROLES, BOB.)
All that said, it's less fun than some of the early books. But still. The skeleton detective is back!
(The book also does a thing with the American president that is way too on the nose for my comfort. He isn't literally named "Donald Trump," but...yeah.)