Fish Eyes and Feathers for Lunch were popular in our house. Those graphics made K's eyes go wide.
We ended every reading session with the same book (Goodnight Moon, sorry) so she knew it was over.
Lindsey: Why--why did you... Lorne: One last job. You're not part of the solution, Lindsey. You never will be. Lindsey: You kill me? A flunky?! I'm not just...Angel...kills me. You...Angel... Lorne: Good night, folks.
'Not Fade Away'
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."
Sparky1 - Sep 13, 2019 6:13:25 am PDT #25461 of 28197
Librarian Warlord
Gris - Sep 13, 2019 6:53:21 am PDT #25462 of 28197
Hey. New board.
Where the Wild Things Are. Also second goodnight construction site and steam train dream train. Those would make good "end the reading session" kind of books. Also second any and all Sandra Boynton.
Consuela - Sep 13, 2019 7:59:36 pm PDT #25463 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
There was a radio program that read aloud the Just So Stories about 30 years ago, and I can still remember the sound of Jack Nicholson saying "the great green greasy Limpopo River".
Beverly - Sep 13, 2019 10:52:18 pm PDT #25464 of 28197
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Orson Welles did VO for a 1975 cartoon Rikki Tikki Tavi--nobody says "the great grey-green greasy Limpopo River" like Orson Welles. June Foray did about half the rest of the voices.
To be honest, I thought it was all fiction, and when watching a tv documentary and the narrator mentioned the "Limpopo river" I realized there IS an actual Limpopo river. But it doesn't seem real unless you add the "great grey-green greasy" part.
Sue - Sep 14, 2019 2:12:35 am PDT #25465 of 28197
hip deep in pie
There was a radio program that read aloud the Just So Stories about 30 years ago, and I can still remember the sound of Jack Nicholson saying "the great green greasy Limpopo River".
This was available as an album. It's Jack Nicholson and Bobby McFerrin and it's so great. The rest of the album is Bobby McFerrin doing his thing IIRC.
ETA: You Tube has everything [link]
flea - Sep 14, 2019 7:52:39 am PDT #25466 of 28197
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We had this on cassette tape! I listened to it a lot.
msbelle - Sep 15, 2019 6:49:59 am PDT #25467 of 28197
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I just finished a YA book called Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott that I really enjoyed and found hard to put down, not because it was suspenseful, just enjoyable. For those that enjoy an easy to read, female driven, YA book.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 15, 2019 8:36:57 am PDT #25468 of 28197
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
So, Hec's posts about Heidi made me want to revisit two other books I liked as I kid, but I can't remember much about them
Clues: 1. I read a lot of books that were published between 1999 and and 1960 in their original bindings. They were not necessarily classics, but more like a Henry Artemis type thing . 2. I think one was called Adventures in 4-H. I am guessing set in the 1940 or 50s It was about a brother and sister make preparations all year to go to the fair, and then they win and also get to go to the State Fair. The boy raised "baby beeves", which I didn't quite understand were just beef cattle.
3. I think the other was called Elaine of the Mountains. It was a lot like the part of Heidi where she goes to the city. There was more detail about peasants dress. I am pretty sure she got glasses.
Anyone?
-t - Sep 25, 2019 3:29:12 pm PDT #25469 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ive been listening to Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry whenever an audiobook has been suitable to my situation for a while now. I'm halfway through The Blue Carbuncle at this point and I think it's my favorite so far. Don't get me wrong, Fry is great from the jump, I regularly have to remind myself that he is playing all the characters, as it were, but I didn't enjoy the first ... [counts]...8 near as much as this.
It's weird how little actual Doyle I have read. I may have read more pastiches and homages. I didn't mean to.
Amy - Sep 25, 2019 4:24:54 pm PDT #25470 of 28197
Because books.
I have read a tiny amount of Doyle, and a shit-ton of pastiches and homages. I think my favorites are a toss-up between Laurie R. King's series and Carol Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler books.
I know I should fee guilty about it, but I really don't? I never read Tolkien either, and I loved the movies.