Not sure if you want to go this route but the American Girl Kirsten is a pioneer.
That's not what making out sounds like -- unless I'm doing it wrong?
Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Laga - Feb 22, 2008 1:02:39 pm PST #5140 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Maysa - Feb 22, 2008 4:06:18 pm PST #5141 of 28344
I liked Understood Betsy a lot as a kid, too. But I think Betsy was just sent to live on a farm - not a pioneer story.
Scrappy - Feb 23, 2008 8:13:49 am PST #5142 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
A farm in Vermont. It's a GREAT book.
Amy - Feb 23, 2008 8:16:27 am PST #5143 of 28344
Because books.
Oh, I loved Understood Betsy! And I read Caddie Woodlawn (which I didn't love as much as the Little House books) and Strawberry Girl. God, I want to get out *all* my childhood books now.
Steph L. - Feb 26, 2008 9:45:03 am PST #5144 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
In non-Little House news (though now I want to re-read them, dang it!), I'm about a chapter away from the end of The Subtle Knife, and:
(1) I can see the whole Dust premise starting to unravel;
(2) Lee Scoresby! Noooooo!; and
(3) Seriously, Pullman couldn't come up with a better name for the knife (not to mention the book title) than the "subtle knife"? Lame.
And although I can see the Dust premise unraveling, I'm going to read The Amber Spyglass just so I can see how it all turns out.
brenda m - Feb 26, 2008 5:06:37 pm PST #5145 of 28344
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Random House to stop using DRM on its audiobooks. [link]
But the interesting part is why:
Seems Random House, in a fit of unfettered wisdom, ran a DRM-free audiobook distribution program online and found that “none of the pirate editions of their audiobooks online came from those DRM-free editions.” All the pirated versions they found were from DRM-editions that had been cracked, stripped of their protection, or ripped from CD. To quote Cory Doctorow, “DUH.”
Tom Scola - Feb 28, 2008 10:18:45 am PST #5146 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Political contributions by people who identify their occupation as "novelist": [link]
Susan W. - Feb 28, 2008 11:34:11 am PST #5147 of 28344
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
OK, I need to step away from that database before I end up putting in everyone I like from my LibraryThing list. If nothing else, there's always the possibility I won't like them after I see what they do with their money!
Polter-Cow - Feb 28, 2008 2:15:39 pm PST #5148 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I can see the whole Dust premise starting to unravel
I love what he does with Dust in the second book, though. Also, how great is Mary Malone? She's one of the good parts about the third book.
Seriously, Pullman couldn't come up with a better name for the knife (not to mention the book title) than the "subtle knife"? Lame.
Heh.
DavidS - Feb 28, 2008 2:16:27 pm PST #5149 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Seriously, Pullman couldn't come up with a better name for the knife (not to mention the book title) than the "subtle knife"? Lame.
Aren't all the titles from Milton's Paradise Lost?