A friend on LJ just made herself an awesome little icon with a cute knitted monkey in a beret, that reads 'Amazon sales listing surrender singe'.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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 - Apr 13, 2009 10:59:22 pm PDT #8845 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
megan walker - Apr 14, 2009 7:18:31 am PDT #8846 of 28414
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
According to Daisey's inside sources, "A guy from Amazon France got confused on how he was editing the site, and mixed up 'adult,' which is the term they use for porn, with stuff like 'erotic' and 'sexuality.'"
This is sort of funny to me in that my housemate recently asked me how strong my European linguistic skills were because they were looking for people to help them avoid this very problem.
Ginger - Apr 16, 2009 5:41:55 am PDT #8847 of 28414
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
A friend is looking for suggestions for books for an 11-year-old prodigy. She's an excellent musician. She loves to read and reads at an advanced level. However, in some ways she still has an 11-year-old mind. She likes fantasy, but not if it's "too scary." She thinks Harry Potter is too scary. I suggested Robin McKinley. Any other ideas?
dcp - Apr 16, 2009 5:57:41 am PDT #8848 of 28414
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Maybe:
Dragonsinger
Little Fuzzy
Mirabile
My Family and Other Animals
Barb - Apr 16, 2009 6:01:45 am PDT #8849 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
The Warriors books by Erin Hunter, maybe? I'll have to ask Abby how scary those are.
There's also Heather Brewer's The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series about a half-vampire boy struggling through middle school and early high school. The first book was called Eighth Grade Bites.
Oh, and here's one she might really have fun with-- Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs, who's one of my writing buddies.
Here's the back cover blurb:
A modern girl's comedic odyssey in a school filled with the descendants of Greek gods.
When Phoebe's mom returns from Greece with a new husband and moves them to an island in the Aegean, Phoebe's plans for her senior year and track season are ancient history. Now she must attend the uberexclusive academy, where admission depends on pedigree, namely, ancestry from Zeus, Hera, and other Greek gods. That's right, they're real, not myth, and their teen descendants are like the classical heroes-supersmart and superbeautiful with a few superpowers. And now they're on her track team! Armed only with her Nikes and the will to win, Phoebe races to find her place among the gods.
It's recommended as being for twelve and up.
Fay - Apr 16, 2009 7:46:38 am PDT #8850 of 28414
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
How about Diana Wynne Jones? Anything, but especially Witch Week, Charmed Life, The Magicians of Caprona or Dogsbody.
P.M. Marc - Apr 16, 2009 8:42:51 am PDT #8851 of 28414
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
However, in some ways she still has an 11-year-old mind. She likes fantasy, but not if it's "too scary." She thinks Harry Potter is too scary. I suggested Robin McKinley. Any other ideas?
Douglas Adams! Okay, it's not really fantasy, but I loved HHGttG at that age (I think I was 7 or 8 when I first read it). I'd advise against my go-to between grades 3 and 6, which was Piers Anthony.
Ooo! Discworld. She's a good age for Discworld.
Ginger - Apr 16, 2009 9:22:19 am PDT #8852 of 28414
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Such good ideas. I love Gerald Durrell and Douglas Adams, but they didn't occur to me.
Laga - Apr 16, 2009 12:04:45 pm PDT #8853 of 28414
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Is Watership Down as scary as Harry Potter?
Tom Scola - Apr 16, 2009 12:05:37 pm PDT #8854 of 28414
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Is Watership Down as scary as Harry Potter?
Much, much worse.