I also loved The Borrowers books at that age.
To this day, I think of ferrets as the enemy.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Ginger - Aug 28, 2008 6:05:09 pm PDT #7156 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Kathy A - Aug 28, 2008 6:35:01 pm PDT #7157 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
For good SF/fantasy romance, I'd go with Knight of a Trillion Stars by Dara Joy, Beneath a Sapphire Sea by Jessica Bryan (mermaids), or Shield's Lady by Amanda Glass (actually Jayne Ann Krentz), and then, of course, there are all the great time travel books that only skirt the SF/Fantasy arena.
Aims - Aug 28, 2008 7:06:30 pm PDT #7158 of 28404
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Crusie's Welcome to Temptation
Love
Bet Me
Love
Faking It
Love
Fast Women
Love
Crazy For You, Tell Me Lies, What the Lady Wants
Love, Love, Love
Jennifer Crusie = Love.
Ginger - Aug 28, 2008 8:01:14 pm PDT #7159 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm with you with everything except Crazy for You, in which there was too much creepy crazy.
megan walker - Aug 28, 2008 8:14:26 pm PDT #7160 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
"the aunt who gives books," not "the cool aunt."
I am both. And the "favorite aunt."
Of course, it helps that I am the only aunt.
In fact, my nephew left for boarding school today and I'm trying to figure out what I can send him at school to maintain my "cool aunt" status.
DavidS - Aug 28, 2008 8:17:02 pm PDT #7161 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and I'm trying to figure out what I can send him at school to maintain my "cool aunt" status.
I hear the cool kids do drugs.
Polter-Cow - Aug 28, 2008 11:26:58 pm PDT #7162 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
On a completely unrelated note, I just finished a few comic memoirs: Maus, Persepolis, and Fun Home.
Fay - Aug 29, 2008 3:01:27 am PDT #7163 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I also need a recommendation of a well-written romance novel. My male friend who is really into sci fi ish stuff, but also Shakespeare, doesn't believe there is a romance novel that is ever "good", but said he would read one.
...he's either gay or in a relationship (or both), right?
If not, how does he feel about mail-order English Roses?
Plus she had a sex change! So she was a transgender fairy princess.
How did I not know this? Because this is FABulous.
Tom Scola - Aug 29, 2008 4:46:05 am PDT #7164 of 28404
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I thought Ozma had the sex change.
JZ - Aug 29, 2008 5:27:12 am PDT #7165 of 28404
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It was indeed Ozma with the sex change.
So many lovely, completely insane little tangents in all those books. I completely adored the Flatheads, who kept their brains (powdered) in little cans they carried around with them everywhere and were ruled by a couple who had conned several other people out of their cans of powdered brains and were thus the smartest people in the land because they had something like six cans of brains each.
And the princess with her collection of couture heads, and the wicked magician princess with a castle hidden at the bottom of a lake, and the three former benevolent rulers of the lake region (also women, and magicians) transformed into a golden fish, a silver fish, and a bronze fish, swimming around and around the sunken castle and singing sadly.
The Oz books are uneven, but my God, that man's imagination could sing, and he was absolutely fearless about taking every single crazy "what-if" that bounced into his head and setting it loose to run glorious riot.