Jennifer Crusie wins again.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jan 01, 2007 5:42:31 pm PST #9216 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat - Jan 01, 2007 5:45:16 pm PST #9217 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Hey Kat, I have a query you may or may not be able to answer. What might be a good book for an 11 year old girl?
Hmmm... There's a series of mysteries with a narrator named Sammy Keyes who is this 7th grader living illegally with her grandmother in a retirement apartment setting. I love those books and kids do too. She's fun. She's spunky. She is a regular kid.
Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan is this great story about a girl who was wealthy in Mexico, but her dad dies and suddenly her family is forced to immigrate to California. Sad but beautiful with a not-sad ending.
Everything on a Waffle is good fun.
§ ita § - Jan 01, 2007 5:46:37 pm PST #9218 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I use 1000 mg of calcium combined with 500 mg of magnesium plus niacinimide (no flushing) and feverfew. I found them recommended in a book called "The Vitamin Bible" when I was having daily headaches and had no health insurance.
Were you having migraines? I'm not asking snottily--I just know the pathologies can vary, so I wanted the context.
Laga - Jan 01, 2007 5:50:22 pm PST #9219 of 10007
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
When I was 11 I was devouring Marguerite Henry books.
Cass - Jan 01, 2007 5:50:29 pm PST #9220 of 10007
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Goddamn, I'm going to have to order it again, aren't I?Only if the sweet was the only thing turning you off from it. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
But mine was delicious and nearly worth making. I burned my hand rather badly while doing it which took off some of the shiny, but it was nummy. And since I still have marsala wine and no idea what else to do with it, I might try again.
sarameg - Jan 01, 2007 5:50:49 pm PST #9221 of 10007
THANK YOU!
The Sammy Keyes, especially. From what I glean, her mom is in a nursing home due to a house fire and she and her dad are on their own with nurse-supervised visits. Something making that less scary would be good. So untraditional family situation.
I'm quite fond of this girl and suspect her reading can use prompting, in the funnest possible way, based on her grades (which she showed me. Meep.)
Kat - Jan 01, 2007 5:53:06 pm PST #9222 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Can I ask, sara, who she is? I need your mom's help with baby and picture books. Not for a while. But eventually.
Jesse - Jan 01, 2007 5:54:45 pm PST #9223 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Only if the sweet was the only thing turning you off from it. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
Well, now I need to know, is the thing.
Kathy A - Jan 01, 2007 5:56:32 pm PST #9224 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
When I was 11 I was devouring Marguerite Henry books.
I am Laga. But, that is when I read my first grown-up book, too (Roots), so I was in a weird place, bookwise.
Jesse - Jan 01, 2007 5:58:42 pm PST #9225 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm pretty sure 11 is when I started in with the Agatha Christie.