I'm reading Ramona the Pest with one of my kids right now, and Ramona's just starting Kindergarten. fwiw.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'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."
Fay - Feb 06, 2009 10:31:47 pm PST #8422 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2009 5:29:56 am PST #8423 of 28431
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, and Beezus and Ramona comes before Ramona the Pest. So yeah, totally wrong age. They also case Selena Gomez as Beezus, and she's about 15 or so, I think -- Beezus in that book should be maybe 12?
Jessica - Feb 07, 2009 6:42:47 am PST #8424 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
With the youngest Fanning now in grade school, I suspect they just couldn't find a 5 year-old mature enough to carry a feature film.
Barb - Feb 07, 2009 7:02:51 am PST #8425 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
Yep. Witch of Blackbird Pond and Roller Skates.
Darn-- Velvet Room wasn't a Newbery. Plus, published in 1964, so it's not within your time parameters.
You can't go sixties, beth? Because Wrinkle in Time is still so relevant yet very much of its time.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2009 7:35:30 am PST #8426 of 28431
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I would think that, if they wanted to cast those girls, they could just make the movie of Ramona Quimby, Age 8, which is just as well-known a book as Beezus and Ramona, and has a bunch of scenes that would make good movie. That's the one with the egg in the hair and the cat song, right?
ION: Harry Potter, Zionist propaganda. Including "promoting the purity of blood and race." Missing the point much? [link]
beth b - Feb 07, 2009 9:14:54 am PST #8427 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
You can't go sixties, beth? Because Wrinkle in Time is still so relevant yet very much of its time.
I will be , but I have to read a book from each decade with a couple of matching honor books -- this week the 20s and lot of back ground stuff. Next week 30s, 40s, 50s.
Laga - Feb 07, 2009 10:45:35 pm PST #8428 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I like historical fiction. I've neither pursued nor avoided romance. Should I read Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels?
Pix - Feb 08, 2009 11:08:12 am PST #8429 of 28431
The status is NOT quo.
I think you'd enjoy them, Laga. They're very long, but well written and truly interesting.
Barb - Feb 08, 2009 11:47:22 am PST #8430 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
I will say if you're a history wonk, the second one, Dragonfly in Amber is the one where she got most carried away with her historical research, in that "My research! Let me show you every detail!" sort of way.
For me, it was a little intrusive into the storytelling, but it's the only one of the books in which it's a huge issue for me.
Oh, and if you get started with them, Book 7 does come out later this year (I think).
Beverly - Feb 08, 2009 4:31:34 pm PST #8431 of 28431
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
She has admitted that she'd never been to Scotland until she was writing the third book. And what's so funny is that I loved the first two.
Once they left Europe for the New World, I sort of lost interest. Especially since she'd never been to North Carolina when she wrote about *it*, either. I'm more familiar than I'd wish with Rowan County, and it is definitely NOT in the mountains. It was more about my losing interest in the storytelling that she lost me, though. Again, I loved the first one, and most of the second.