My wife and I are teaching at an American school here. Calvin is 6 now, will be 7 in December. My younger two are 4 and almost 2.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Gris - Sep 01, 2018 11:48:18 pm PDT #25170 of 28370
Hey. New board.
Jesse - Sep 02, 2018 1:53:08 am PDT #25171 of 28370
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh wow!
Katerina Bee - Sep 02, 2018 6:52:27 am PDT #25172 of 28370
Herding cats for fun
We are quite international!
Scrappy - Sep 02, 2018 8:41:08 am PDT #25173 of 28370
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
How cool, Gris! And how nice to hear from you!
Shir - Sep 06, 2018 5:36:24 am PDT #25174 of 28370
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Hello, Gris!
So guys. It'll be months from now, but there's already a nice promo in Tor [link] : Angry Robot will publish Keren Landsman's Heart of the The Circle in English, which is such a wonderful book and I encourage you all to read it. Keren (who is a friend and a wonderful person) published a book before and a lot of short stories. The Heart of the Circle is probably her best fantasy writing. I can't wait for you to get the chance to read it.
Toddson - Sep 11, 2018 9:46:53 am PDT #25175 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
well ... this is one way to drive book sales.
msbelle - Sep 12, 2018 3:48:12 pm PDT #25176 of 28370
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I'm trying to get back into reading so I check out some light fare from the library. Meg Cabot, whom I have never read, Big Boned. Which I read super fast. It was fine, predictable in many ways, but enjoyable.
Now I am reading Jenny Colgan - Sweetshop of Dreams. Not going nearly as fast as the Cabot, but I am enjoying it.
aurelia - Sep 12, 2018 3:56:03 pm PDT #25177 of 28370
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
well ... this is one way to drive book sales.
I love that video. And the Wonky Donkey reminds me of the (fancy, antsy, prancy, dancy) Nancy Ann Cianci game.
Connie Neil - Sep 12, 2018 4:01:15 pm PDT #25178 of 28370
brillig
I replaced my lost copy of Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October with a hard cover. Given the prices I saw online, this book is getting hard to find--at least in the original cover--and it's such a glorious book.
Gris - Sep 12, 2018 4:19:04 pm PDT #25179 of 28370
Hey. New board.
I think Big Boned is the third or fourth in a series, msbelle. The conceit was definitely getting a bit stale by then, but the original, Size 12 is Not Fat, is among my favorite in that genre of light fun Meg Cabot fare.
I basically like everything Meg Cabot writes for both children or adults in exactly the way you described, but if you decide to dive in again I think Boy Next Door is probably my favorite. E-mail epistolary style, which isn't everybody's cup of tea, but it works for me.