That's the book I read 500 times ( matt says 43) To my nephew one weekend
Yes that is a reccomendation
I like the way the walls go out. Gives you an open feeling. Firefly is a good design. People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.
Early ,'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."
beth b - Sep 01, 2007 7:52:24 pm PDT #3795 of 28211
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Laga - Sep 01, 2007 7:55:22 pm PDT #3796 of 28211
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 28211
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 28211
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 28211
"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 28211
"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.
Liese S. - Sep 02, 2007 7:42:44 am PDT #3801 of 28211
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, oh, I think this is the book that I stopped reading because I was upsetting Grover! Yeah, that's the kind of child I was. What? No, I don't have trouble separating reality from fiction, why do you ask?
Laga - Sep 02, 2007 1:35:09 pm PDT #3802 of 28211
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
My copy was in tatters because Mom and I would take turns trying to hold the pages down while the other turned them.
sumi - Sep 05, 2007 4:56:07 am PDT #3803 of 28211
Art Crawl!!!
Powell's sent me this review today and I thought that it was something that the Empress might be interested in.
sumi - Sep 05, 2007 5:08:38 am PDT #3804 of 28211
Art Crawl!!!
This piece about Prince Charles and his book about organic gardening may also be of interest to the Empress.