I am super bummed out about Kate's!
I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Jesse - Jul 17, 2009 6:32:19 am PDT #9628 of 28476
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom Scola - Jul 17, 2009 6:39:02 am PDT #9629 of 28476
hwæt
The Twilight book summarized in four comic strips: [link]
Frankenbuddha - Jul 17, 2009 6:42:11 am PDT #9630 of 28476
"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 28476
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 28476
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 28476
"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 28476
"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 28476
information libertarian
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 28476
"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.
Volans - Jul 18, 2009 7:48:10 am PDT #9637 of 28476
move out and draw fire
Any good recs for a collection of traditional fairy tales, and/or King Arthur stories? For a 4yo listener?
We've got lots of "actual" King Arthur (Malory, etc), and original Grimm, but no simple short versions of the basics.