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!
Just tryin' a little spicy talk.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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.