billytea, have you put this on your Christmas list? [link]
Non Tribune [link]
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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.
aurelia - Dec 08, 2008 2:02:54 pm PST #4926 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Barb - Dec 08, 2008 2:06:40 pm PST #4927 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
So, anyone know if this Sophie Renwick person has any knowledge of what goth clubs are like, or if she's just going to make up Darque and Deviant details?
Can't find anything about her, other than this one other PubMarketplace listing from earlier this year:
Sophie Renwick's HOT IN HERE, in which the kitchen heats up as a playboy celebrity chef who is about to lose everything tries to repair his image by dating his "safe" best friend in this fun, hot romance, to Tracy Bernstein at NAL
A writing board says that Sophie Renwick is a pen name for author Charlotte Featherstone which would explain the lack of information.
billytea - Dec 08, 2008 2:10:59 pm PST #4928 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
billytea, have you put this on your Christmas list? [link]
Oh, wow. I have not, and given the prices they talk about, I'm unlikely to. (Plus, an animal named after you? Very cool. Having to pay for it? Not as cool, and possibly smacking a little of desperation. Rather like losing one's virginity in this regard.)
I am, in fact, pondering putting a proper university-standard biology textbook on my Christmas list, to have something to read before going to sleep. And the Battlestar Galactica boardgame, which sounds like it would be incredible fun with the right people.
brenda m - Dec 08, 2008 2:13:05 pm PST #4929 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Can't find anything about her, other than this one other PubMarketplace listing from earlier this year:
Didn't Amy say she knew her?
ETA: No wait, she said she knows the editor who bought it.
flea - Dec 08, 2008 2:14:15 pm PST #4930 of 10002
information libertarian
Charlotte Featherstone is also clearly a pen name. I mean, right?
Barb - Dec 08, 2008 2:23:29 pm PST #4931 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
Given that she writes ero-rom, probably. At least it's fairly innocuous, all things considered.
quester - Dec 08, 2008 2:34:50 pm PST #4932 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Only three puppies left and they still want to pile up.
javachik - Dec 08, 2008 2:39:17 pm PST #4933 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
I can't look at the puppies site anymore. It's unbearably sad. It reminds me of a coffee table book I have about puppies. It has beautiful black and white photos of puppies, with pithy "quotes".
One is of a lone puppy squinting into the camera: "where is my mommy? And didn't I used to have brothers and sisters...?"
beekaytee - Dec 08, 2008 2:50:38 pm PST #4934 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
I'm going to give this request one more go because I have a real need to provide good advice to a couple who are really struggling.
They are two women who are raising a 5 year old boy and an 8 year old girl. The mother is deceased and the father is, I believe, 'away.'
The little boy is confused and angry about comments other kids make about having no dad, a dad who might be in prison, and being adopted by two women.
The women are the very best parents you could imagine, but they are at a loss for how to give their little guy tools for understanding and addressing comments.
Do any of the excellent parents or kid lit specialists have suggestions for books in the kids' age range?
google has given me "All About Me" and "Adoption Stories for Young Children" but I would so appreciate personal recommendations...or even a respected resource like an agency reading list or some such.
DavidS - Dec 08, 2008 2:55:29 pm PST #4935 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sorry, bonny, but that's such a specific and difficult set of circumstances I can't think of anything that would be particularly helpful.
I will note that the movie Lilo and Stitch does address: losing parents, anger, acting out and inappropriate behavior, unconventional "chosen" families etc.