I don't have a personal rec, but I think my little cousins love the Princess in Black?
I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Jesse - Jul 30, 2020 9:50:13 am PDT #26066 of 28175
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Cashmere - Jul 30, 2020 11:29:30 am PDT #26067 of 28175
Now tagless for your comfort.
Also, Heidi Hecklebeck by Wanda Coven.
chrismg - Jul 30, 2020 1:17:32 pm PDT #26068 of 28175
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Speaking of Ursula Vernon, Hamster Princess.
Kate P. - Jul 30, 2020 4:08:22 pm PDT #26069 of 28175
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Princess in Black is so fun. I also love the Yasmin series by Saadia Faruqi and the Dory Fantasmagory books by Abby Hanlon. Also, if animal stories are her thing, she might like the Catwings books by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Cashmere - Jul 30, 2020 7:38:20 pm PDT #26070 of 28175
Now tagless for your comfort.
Amelia Bedelia remains a tried and true standby.
The Princess in Black series is pretty much the most popular with girls right now, but I like Henry and Mudge and Cam Jansen, as well as the other ones.
There are some early reader quasi graphic novels that are new called Unicorn and Yeti and I LOVE THEM.
Also, Little Robot, Peter & Ernesto (sloths) and Baby Mouse. The young graphic novels are particularly awesome because with the visual support, even non-readers can follow the action and kids tend to go through them OVER and OVER again, even if they're not *quite* reading on their own yet.
Cashmere - Jul 30, 2020 7:38:38 pm PDT #26071 of 28175
Now tagless for your comfort.
Yasmin is super adorbs, too.
chrismg - Aug 01, 2020 11:48:20 am PDT #26072 of 28175
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Hugo winners are out!
Congratulations to A Memory Called Empire, both for winning and for being the only novel on the list I've read all through(I started two others but didn't finish, and haven't had a chance to read Gideon the Ninth yet).
And sympathies to our own FW, who placed but didn't win in two categories. Just wait til next year, as Charlie Brown says.
-t - Aug 08, 2020 8:45:15 am PDT #26073 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Harrow the Ninth, y'all. It is something else.
-t - Aug 08, 2020 5:35:32 pm PDT #26074 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And in a pretty striking change of pace: The Honjin Murders is excellent. I wasn't sure what to expect, classic mysteries are not always all that satisfying, but this one has me hoping that a lot more of the Kindaichi stories get translated into English. Impossible crime, genius detective, family drama, '40s Japan, references to other mystery stories - if this is the kind of thing you like, you'll like this.
Toddson - Aug 10, 2020 8:23:58 am PDT #26075 of 28175
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Courtesy of Mary Robinette Kowal, here are transcripts of Hugo winner speeches.