Ooh - I read this one: Snow Treasure (1942 / 1958)
About kids in Norway during WWII who helped smuggle Norway's gold away from the Nazis....
I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
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.
tommyrot - Nov 18, 2008 8:03:50 am PST #2091 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
SuziQ - Nov 18, 2008 8:04:02 am PST #2092 of 10002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Infinity bookcase -- neat looking idea... but practically, how do you get at the books in the middle?!
To me it looks like there are no backs to the bookcase, so the middle is actually looking at the back of the books placed from the outside. I think. Now I'm confused.
tommyrot - Nov 18, 2008 8:07:49 am PST #2093 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, the infinity bookcase is just some art thing: [link]
eta:
"In the beginning was the word, the written word is unto eternity. A bookcase in the form of a lemniscate (the mathematical sign for infinity), full of books, words, shows the cycle of art. The way in which artworks endure, sometimes concealed, sometimes at eye level, close enough to touch, then forgotten for years, pushed away behind other books. The eternal performance of art. The public constantly changes in age and era. The words remain the same, and yet what is read changes from one age to the next."
amych - Nov 18, 2008 8:08:41 am PST #2094 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I read this one: Snow Treasure (1942 / 1958)
Me too! Very possibly the world's only sledding thriller! (And definitely the place I learned the word "bullion".)
tommyrot - Nov 18, 2008 8:09:21 am PST #2095 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
(And definitely the place I learned the word "bullion".)
Heh. Me too.
megan walker - Nov 18, 2008 8:10:02 am PST #2096 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Remember all those neato Schoolastic books?
Remember them? I still have:
Mr. Popper's Penguins
(1938 / 1974)
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
(1963)
Arrow Book of Ghost Stories
(1921 - 1957 / 1960)
I know I had The Partridge Family #2: The Haunted Hall but I gave it away at some point.
lisah - Nov 18, 2008 8:12:46 am PST #2097 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
Mr. Popper's Penguins
We did a play of this at my town library when I was in, like, 3rd grade!
megan walker - Nov 18, 2008 8:18:55 am PST #2098 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I also have a number of my favorites from the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club ( Bear Circus, Christina Katerina and the Box, etc.).
Connie Neil - Nov 18, 2008 8:19:39 am PST #2099 of 10002
brillig
Oh, yeah, the Partridge Family books! And the Snow Treasure book.
I adored Scholastic Book ordering day.
Theodosia - Nov 18, 2008 8:22:59 am PST #2100 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Snow Treasure is the one where the Norwegians are smuggling gold bullion past the Nazis in their sleds, right?