One of the highlights of my yut as a little girl living in Hilo, HA was when Beverly Cleary visited my school. She read a loud to us for an hour and gave us all signed books.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
javachik - May 14, 2009 5:37:18 pm PDT #9126 of 28405
Our wings are not tired.
Kat - May 14, 2009 5:41:02 pm PDT #9127 of 28405
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
java! I didn't know you grew up in Hilo! Neat!
Amy - May 14, 2009 5:41:52 pm PDT #9128 of 28405
Because books.
Hey, java, that reminds me, did you ever find the Susannah Moore books?
javachik - May 14, 2009 5:57:22 pm PDT #9129 of 28405
Our wings are not tired.
Yup, Kat!
Nope, Amy!
flea - May 15, 2009 4:04:40 am PDT #9130 of 28405
information libertarian
If you're going to talk about rascals in children's lit, I think Fudge from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and sequelae needs to be on the list!
Spoiler: He ATE the turtle!!
Barb - May 16, 2009 8:58:43 am PDT #9131 of 28405
“Not dead yet!”
Romeo and Juliet aficionados/scholars, help?
What do we know of Mercutio other than Romeo's bestie who's a smartass who bites it at Tybalt's hand? Anything else within canon that's been cut from common iterations of the play?
Anne W. - May 16, 2009 9:00:58 am PDT #9132 of 28405
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
He's a relative of the Prince, if I recall correctly.
Kat - May 16, 2009 10:45:25 am PDT #9133 of 28405
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
And he's a relative of Paris, I think.
Also, he was in Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, which is thought to be Shakespeare's source material. In that version, he's not merely a jokester friend of Romeo and Benvolio but he's also a suitor in competition with Romeo for Juliet.
Barb - May 16, 2009 11:02:15 am PDT #9134 of 28405
“Not dead yet!”
Also, he was in Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, which is thought to be Shakespeare's source material. In that version, he's not merely a jokester friend of Romeo and Benvolio but he's also a suitor in competition with Romeo for Juliet.
I had just been looking at that.
Heh.
I'ma plotting. My head may explode before it's all over, but I'm plotting.
Beverly - May 16, 2009 11:13:53 am PDT #9135 of 28405
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
It may just be the performances I've seen, but I've always gotten the feeling Mercutio was hot for Romeo.