You continue to be a RockStar, Hippo!
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
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."
EpicTangent - Apr 02, 2018 9:08:26 am PDT #25005 of 28200
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 03, 2018 6:19:04 pm PDT #25006 of 28200
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Congratulations, Hippocampus!
Fun party game for girl's night: Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would
hippocampus - Apr 04, 2018 10:27:59 am PDT #25007 of 28200
not your mom's socks.
thanks so much -- this was kind of a shock because short stories and *this* short story -- I'm really happy though because the entire list is made up of amazing creative brains.
Burrell - Apr 04, 2018 2:54:02 pm PDT #25008 of 28200
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Woot! Congratuations!
Kate P. - Apr 10, 2018 4:16:54 pm PDT #25009 of 28200
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Literary Buffistas, I need some help coming up with recommendations for a 6th grader who is reading at a very advanced level and particularly loves fantasy. What are some more obscure books/series that I can recommend to him? I've already recommended:
- Lud-in-the-Mist
- Temeraire series
- Mortal Engines
- The Once and Future King
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- Watership Down
- Norse Mythology (Gaiman)
- The Name of the Wind
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- Beowulf
- Graceling
...and he seems to have read almost all of them. He did say that he hadn't read Lud-in-the-Mist, then apparently he checked it out and read it this afternoon and says he liked it. He is a big Tolkien fan and also lists Malcolm Gladwell and Bertrand Russell (!) among the authors he's recently enjoyed reading. Edit: He also says he doesn't like science fiction. And also, he's 12, so I don't feel I can recommend books that have graphic sex scenes (so no Game of Thrones, for example).
Halp!
Gudanov - Apr 10, 2018 4:35:29 pm PDT #25010 of 28200
Coding and Sleeping
Belgariad? I don't think there is graphic sex in that one.
Dana - Apr 10, 2018 4:42:47 pm PDT #25011 of 28200
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Martha Wells' Books of the Raksura, Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, Catherynne M. Valente's Fairyland series, Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Boys series, most of Barbara Hambly's catalog, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, anything by Robin McKinley.
Pix - Apr 10, 2018 4:47:14 pm PDT #25012 of 28200
The status is NOT quo.
Kate, what about all of the Tamora Pierce books?
bennett - Apr 10, 2018 5:14:09 pm PDT #25013 of 28200
- Anything else by Gaiman
- Mary Stewart's Merlin books
- Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Mary Renault's The King Must Die and Bull from the Sea (since he liked Beowulf)
- Gilgamesh
bennett - Apr 10, 2018 5:17:46 pm PDT #25014 of 28200
I read the Susan Cooper books and Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books at his age, but it sounds like he might've already read them.
Maybe Patricia McKillip's books?