As far as the Newsweek list goes (and, yeah, pretty good list), Picture at a Revolution was a really fun book. And I love David Thomson's A Biographical Dictionary of Film, even though I diasgree with his opinions as often as I agree with them. He's just a really good film writer.
I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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."
Frankenbuddha - Jul 17, 2009 4:46:27 am PDT #9627 of 28403
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jesse - Jul 17, 2009 6:32:19 am PDT #9628 of 28403
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am super bummed out about Kate's!
Tom Scola - Jul 17, 2009 6:39:02 am PDT #9629 of 28403
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The Twilight book summarized in four comic strips: [link]
Frankenbuddha - Jul 17, 2009 6:42:11 am PDT #9630 of 28403
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I am super bummed out about Kate's!
I know, but it sounds like it was a choice, not a necessity, on her part. Here's the article that was in the Globe this morning: [link]
The good news is, it may resurface one way or another. However, the store itself will be missed.
Steph L. - Jul 17, 2009 7:00:16 am PDT #9631 of 28403
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The Twilight book summarized in four comic strips: [link]
That is awesome. I think I like the werewolf the best.
Jesse - Jul 17, 2009 7:15:10 am PDT #9632 of 28403
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I know, but it sounds like it was a choice, not a necessity, on her part.
I had heard a while ago that she was looking for a partner she could turn the business over to, so I guess she hasn't found that person (yet)...
DavidS - Jul 18, 2009 7:17:15 am PDT #9633 of 28403
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anybody familiar with the work of the British children's writer Helen Creswell?
I found this appreciation of her mid-seventies novel The Winter of the Birds and tracked it down. It's very, very good.
Then I found this obit after she died in 2005.
Also, did we all know there's a children's literature museum in Newcastle On Tyne?
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jul 18, 2009 7:36:07 am PDT #9634 of 28403
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Oh yes, she's well known here. I loved 'Moondial' as a child - I think it was adapted for children's TV.
flea - Jul 18, 2009 7:38:54 am PDT #9635 of 28403
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I loved her Bagthorpe books. I think the first in the series is Absolute Zero (which is the name of the family dog). I think Emmett might like them, actually. The are sort of intellectual-wacky and not action-wacky, but good and wacky.
DavidS - Jul 18, 2009 7:39:24 am PDT #9636 of 28403
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh yes, she's well known here. I loved 'Moondial' as a child - I think it was adapted for children's TV.
She wrote a great deal for television, particularly in the eighties.
Would that American fantasy writers had such patronage.