Anyone for a round of golf with a couple of Irish writers?
Hee!
Angel: If I'm not back in a couple of hours— Gunn: You're dead, we're screwed, end of the world.
'Underneath'
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."
Jars - Jul 01, 2006 1:02:27 pm PDT #972 of 28095
Nicklas - Jul 02, 2006 9:03:47 am PDT #973 of 28095
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
Anyone for a round of golf with a couple of Irish writers?
That was excellent.
Gris - Jul 06, 2006 3:42:42 pm PDT #974 of 28095
Hey. New board.
Today's library haul:
The Complete Adventures of Winnie the Pooh because I've never read all of them and feel I simply must.
The Blue Girl and Looking for Alaska because they were both recommended YA fiction on Amazon, and seem to have very different premises (one is fantasy, the other one is... not. I think.)
And, finally:
Foucalt's Pendulum because... you guys were talking about it.
Of course, I'm about 60% of the way through The Mists of Avalon, a depth that has taken me well more than a week to reach, so I may not start any of these for a while. But still. Happy. Books.
Kathy A - Jul 06, 2006 3:50:30 pm PDT #975 of 28095
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That reminds me--I have to drop off my books at the library (one was due back on Monday, so I owe 30 cents), and I want to check out Watership Down now!
Kate P. - Jul 06, 2006 4:01:15 pm PDT #976 of 28095
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Looking for Alaska
D.Gris, that's one of my very favorite recent YA books. I think you'll really like it.
Gris - Jul 06, 2006 4:26:53 pm PDT #977 of 28095
Hey. New board.
D.Gris, that's one of my very favorite recent YA books. I think you'll really like it.
Oh good! Me and my sister are reading Pooh aloud to each other. It makes me want a child.
Hayden - Jul 06, 2006 4:32:12 pm PDT #978 of 28095
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Most of Eeyore's humor goes right over children's heads, unfortunately.
erikaj - Jul 06, 2006 6:21:09 pm PDT #979 of 28095
Always Anti-fascist!
My mother says that Eeyore and John Munch are the same character.
Atropa - Jul 06, 2006 6:27:33 pm PDT #980 of 28095
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
My mother says that Eeyore and John Munch are the same character.
At our house, Eeyore sounds like Alan Moore.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 07, 2006 2:22:58 am PDT #981 of 28095
What is even happening?
The Complete Adventures of Winnie the Pooh because I've never read all of them and feel I simply must.Oh, yes! I remember you mentioning that you hadn't read them all, before. Good for you.
Foucalt's Pendulum because... you guys were talking about it.Oh, sheeesh. That's up at mum's cottage, and I picked it up (and possibly strained something) last weekend. I think I got five pages in and said, "Self, the brain cells you need to process this died a decade ago." I don't say that to discourage you, just out of nostalgia for the brain I had in my 20s.
Most of Eeyore's humor goes right over children's heads, unfortunately.
Maybe really wee ones, but my kids (6, 7, 10) get it, and have for a while. Okay, Chris is overly serious, and is mostly concerned for Eeyore, because he's not happy (and why isn't he happy, and how can Eeyore get happy, and Eeyore should be happy). Of course, that's Chris's solution to everything, because that's what works in his world (which is the nicest place and I would move there permanently, if I could).
Two summers ago, my cousin brought a few of her grandchildren to the cottage. The little boy, who is a year or two younger than Chris was a holy terror and possibly a bully-in-training, although he was only 2 or 3 at the time . Chris finally grabbed him by the shoulders and shouted, "Cody, I'M GONNA MAKE YOU HAPPY!"
We adults were too busy trying not to piss ourselves laughing at Chris's pronouncement, to do much else, which actually seemed to work. Cody was really caught off guard, because Chris had been a fluffy bunny doormat until whatever happened that caused him to reach the tipping point, and from then on in, Cody behaved (better, not completely) at least when Chris was around. Even today, if one of us is cranky, another will say, "I'M GONNA MAKE YOU HAPPY!"
My mother says that Eeyore and John Munch are the same character.erika, I think she's right. I think Willow Rosenberg has a bit of Eeyore about her at times, too.