Gud, has Emaryn read Caddie Woodlawn? It's a fiesty, pioneer girl book set here in Wisconsin. One of my FAVORITES when I was 9. (Still is, actually.)
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Cashmere - Sep 15, 2008 6:49:12 am PDT #8741 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
Gudanov - Sep 15, 2008 6:53:28 am PDT #8742 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
No, I'll have to see if the library has it. I've marked the post for a library lookup tonight.
sumi - Sep 15, 2008 7:30:11 am PDT #8743 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
SOAPnet has announced that it will air the entire first season of ABC's hit series DIRTY SEXY MONEY on Saturday, September 27 from 9:00AM to 7:00PM. All ten episodes will be aired in order. The series returns for its second season Wednesday, October 1 at 10 PM ET/PT on the ABC Television Network.
megan walker - Sep 15, 2008 7:42:41 am PDT #8744 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Do not, under any circumstances, let your 9 year old read Les Miserables, or to your 12 year old to read To The Lighthouse, no matter how advanced you think they might be.
Les Misérables is so long, I can't even imagine picking it up to read at 9.
javachik - Sep 15, 2008 7:46:30 am PDT #8745 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
I was 11 when I read it, and enjoyed it very much. I even took to calling myself Cosette in my more dramatic moments.
The book that I picked up at 8 that wrecked me emotionally was Watership Down.
Gudanov - Sep 15, 2008 7:47:05 am PDT #8746 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Do not, under any circumstances, let your 9 year old read Les Miserables
No problem, I'm thinking of getting her a copy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle instead.
javachik - Sep 15, 2008 7:48:17 am PDT #8747 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
No problem, I'm thinking of getting her a copy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle instead.
BWAH! Hope you're prepared to have a newly-created vegetarian at your table tonight!
JZ - Sep 15, 2008 7:49:35 am PDT #8748 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I first read Animal Farm at five, and read it over and over again with great pleasure for the next year and a half. At some point it occurred to me that there was something dodgy going on in the narrative, and somewhere around my seventh birthday I thrust it back at my mom and said bitterly, "You can take this back. I'm not going to read it anymore. It's not really about animals at all."
megan walker - Sep 15, 2008 7:49:54 am PDT #8749 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Not to mention that Hugo's vocabulary is notoriously huge. But I wonder if translation somehow mitigates that.
Jessica - Sep 15, 2008 7:49:54 am PDT #8750 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I read Les Mis in middle school, so I was probably 10 or 11. I loved it.