One reason I love being late to the party on books: sometimes that means there are 12 in the series already and they are all available at the library!
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
meara - Dec 24, 2017 6:03:30 am PST #24885 of 28212
sumi - Dec 28, 2017 7:06:41 am PST #24886 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!
I enjoy Jane Aiken Hodge's books but I love Joan Aiken's Alternative England bioks.
Tom Scola - Dec 29, 2017 10:58:31 am PST #24887 of 28212
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The alphabet ends at Y: [link]
Sheryl - Dec 29, 2017 11:36:01 am PST #24888 of 28212
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Bummer that there won't be a Z book, but it's probably for the better that the manuscript stays unfinished. After the mess that was "The Painted Queen", I'm a bit leery of bringing in a new author to finish a book.
flea - Dec 30, 2017 5:08:27 pm PST #24889 of 28212
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Gah, I just finined a reread of The Devil In Music, the last of the Julian Kestrel books, and it was SO GOOD and it's a crying shame that Kate Ross died at 41 and we didn't get a long series of them. I think I first read them more than 15 years ago on recommendation from Suela, so I am thinking of her.
Jesse - Dec 30, 2017 5:20:37 pm PST #24890 of 28212
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh man, I loved that book so much. I should re-read that.
Also, Kate Ross didn't seem quite so young when I read them the first time....
aurelia - Dec 31, 2017 5:45:42 pm PST #24891 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm sending some books to my cousin whose house burned down last month. She's got a 5yr old, a 2.5yr old, and one on the way. What would you consider essential books for them?
flea - Jan 01, 2018 3:51:57 am PST #24892 of 28212
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For the 5 year old, Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems. Picture books: Robert McCloskey (Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal), Virginia Lee Burton (Katy and the Big Snow - although now I think of it there's a house fire in it, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel). For the fetus, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See in board book format.
aurelia - Jan 01, 2018 6:38:26 am PST #24893 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I should probably avoid house fires. Their house burned on the 5yr old's birthday.
Amy - Jan 01, 2018 6:52:31 am PST #24894 of 28212
Because books.
For the one on the way, all the Sandra Boynton board books.
Classics for all ages: Where the Wild Things Are, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Corduroy, Goodnight Moon, the Llama Llama books, any Dr. Seuss, and the Jane Yolen How Do Dinosaurs books.