I'm hoping there will be more.
There will be! I saw on Amazon that there is a new one coming out on Oct 2nd
Excellent! That's only a month (ish) away!
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
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."
Steph L. - Aug 31, 2007 10:40:30 am PDT #3791 of 28208
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Strix - Sep 01, 2007 8:44:48 am PDT #3792 of 28208
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
YALSA also puts out lists of popular YA books for a variety of different POV (reluctant readers, genres, etc). I use it quite a bit to order books for my classroom library.
Which, for those many wonderful people who donated, is going FABULOUS. I have to get pix up, and let me tell you, I am proud. Almost every day this year, I have at least one student who asks "Can I read this?"
Speaking of YA, anyone read Stefanie Meyers "Twlight" series? I git the newest one yesterday and read it....
beth b - Sep 01, 2007 7:48:47 pm PDT #3793 of 28208
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just finished reading evil genius by catherine Jinks. Really good, fun, if a bit unevenly paced. some compared it to Harry Potter, other( more correctly ) to Artemis Fowl. Darker than both. Oddly , though the stories were not similar it reminded me more of Soon I will be invincible.
I know both books have just come out, but it is still odd that I have just read two books about th everyday lives of superheros/supervillians.
Laga - Sep 01, 2007 7:50:43 pm PDT #3794 of 28208
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
If anybody is looking for little kid books I highly recommned Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. Pure silly fun.
beth b - Sep 01, 2007 7:52:24 pm PDT #3795 of 28208
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
That's the book I read 500 times ( matt says 43) To my nephew one weekend
Yes that is a reccomendation
Laga - Sep 01, 2007 7:55:22 pm PDT #3796 of 28208
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I think if it had been around when I was a kid I might have enjoyed it more than The Monster at the End of This Book.
meara - Sep 01, 2007 7:57:38 pm PDT #3797 of 28208
I think if it had been around when I was a kid I might have enjoyed it more than The Monster at the End of This Book.
Aww! I still have that one, with my three or four year old writing of my name (complete with backwards N) (er, that'd be my real name, obviously, not meara. Which has no N)
Strega - Sep 02, 2007 12:03:31 am PDT #3798 of 28208
That was apparently my favorite book for a long time. I mean, I remember liking it a lot, but my brother remembers that I would recite it along with my parents as they read it to me -- to the point that there was some question as to whether or not I could read, except that when pressed, I couldn't identify individual words on the page.
And actually, I have saved this post from the WEF for years because it always makes me laugh. This is why I love Matt Fraction -- apparently he was traumatized by it:
MONSTER made me call into question my perceptions of god, reality, fiction, and-- jeez, if Grover can be a monster, can't I be a monster too? For am I not at the end of the book as well?
sj - Sep 02, 2007 4:51:58 am PDT #3799 of 28208
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The Monster at the End of This Book was also one of my favorite books as a kid, and it was the first book I bought for my older nephew when he was born.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 02, 2007 5:01:49 am PDT #3800 of 28208
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I felt so bad turning the pages and destroying Grover's hard work (and upsetting him horribly) and, yet, I couldn't NOT turn the pages.