She growls?! You made her so she growls?!

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


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."


DebetEsse - Jul 09, 2008 9:13:15 am PDT #6652 of 28380
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Fred, that reminds me of The King Who Rained, which is all homophones.


Kathy A - Jul 09, 2008 9:30:22 am PDT #6653 of 28380
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Amelia Bedelia is definitely still around, and is usually shelved at bookstores with the most basic of chapter books. When I was Waldenbooks, we had AB in the same section as the Boxcar Children books.


Polter-Cow - Jul 09, 2008 9:32:28 am PDT #6654 of 28380
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I just don't get why it's out of print (when I don't think his other stuff is).

But, ack, they've "updated" it! It's all weird. Look how politically correct!


megan walker - Jul 09, 2008 9:41:42 am PDT #6655 of 28380
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

That's the Word book, Busy, Busy World is different. The stories each take place with different characters in different cities: Pip Pip in London, Pierre the Paris Policeman, Couscous the Algerian Detective, the Klondike Kid, etc.


P.M. Marc - Jul 09, 2008 9:47:17 am PDT #6656 of 28380
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

As the mother of a daughter who loves books with action, and has a hard time finding girls starring in the above, thus leading to the time-honored tradition of "George is a girl in this one" (hey, I have books where you can see where I altered the genders to my liking as a kid), I approve of the changes in the book.

(I didn't actually WANT her reading Curious George, as I have Issues with the colonialist aspect of it, but she inherited a bunch of them.)


Susan W. - Jul 09, 2008 9:52:15 am PDT #6657 of 28380
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Annabel bends the genders all on her own--at least, when she plays with her castle and all the toy horses she's named after herself and her classmates, Annabel-Horse gets to be the king. The first time I saw her do this, I said something about how a queen is a girl king, but she said, no, Annabel was the king, and I decided that was just fine.


Polter-Cow - Jul 09, 2008 9:53:24 am PDT #6658 of 28380
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I approve of the changes in the book.

Oh, yeah, some of them are fine. Some of them are just weird, though.


megan walker - Jul 09, 2008 9:54:12 am PDT #6659 of 28380
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

The yellow ribbons are my favorite.


Polter-Cow - Jul 09, 2008 10:00:50 am PDT #6660 of 28380
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Right? Instant girl!


sumi - Jul 09, 2008 10:10:58 am PDT #6661 of 28380
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