And the classic "Pat the Bunny" and its sequel, "Pat the Cat".
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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."
Toddson - Oct 24, 2007 3:16:59 am PDT #4203 of 28235
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
DavidS - Oct 24, 2007 5:25:37 am PDT #4204 of 28235
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And the classic "Pat the Bunny" and its sequel, "Pat the Cat".
I still have Emmett's favorite variation on this: Pat the Stimpy.
Toddson - Oct 24, 2007 6:22:13 am PDT #4205 of 28235
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The original was written by an alumna of my college, the sequel by her daughter. So, in the alumnae bulletin, mixed in with the scholarly publications there will be a notice that a new edition of one or the other is out. I always find it amusing.
Kathy A - Oct 24, 2007 6:39:59 am PDT #4206 of 28235
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My favorite books to buy for new baby showers are Tuesday by David Wiesner and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka.
Tuesday is told with almost all pictures (there's a grand total of about ten words throughout the story), and it's about the Tuesday that the frogs flew on their lilypads through a subdivision. Hilarious drawings!
And The True Story of the Three Little Pigs is told from the wolf's perspective--he was just trying to borrow a cup of sugar, but they got all hostile.
Toddson - Oct 24, 2007 6:42:04 am PDT #4207 of 28235
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oooooh - the art in Tuesday is amazing!
Amy - Oct 24, 2007 6:55:00 am PDT #4208 of 28235
Because books.
And The True Story of the Three Little Pigs is told from the wolf's perspective--he was just trying to borrow a cup of sugar, but they got all hostile.
This book is awesome. So funny.
Ginger - Oct 24, 2007 7:10:13 am PDT #4209 of 28235
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Is there no Pat the Squid?
Liese S. - Oct 24, 2007 11:19:38 am PDT #4210 of 28235
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I told you about this, right? That when I was little I thought it was a bunny. Named Pat?
'Cause I did.
sumi - Oct 25, 2007 4:16:28 am PDT #4211 of 28235
Art Crawl!!!
I heard this on NPR and now I MUST have this book and an audio book with Steve Martin reading would not be remiss either.
Amy - Oct 31, 2007 7:03:42 am PDT #4212 of 28235
Because books.
A little Halloween topic, just out of curiosity:
Can anyone think of any mainstream-successful female horror writers aside from Anne Rice? (It took me a while to come up with her, because I tend to classify vampire fiction as distinct from horror the way Stephen King and Peter Straub write it, although I'm not sure why.)
I know there must be female horror writers out there, writing the kind of genre books that don't hit the bestseller lists (the same way I write low to midlist romance, and no one know who the hell I am except, like, my mom and my husband), but I can't think of any who have hit it really big. Am I missing people?