Incognito Mosquito - Private Insective: I gotta check this one out. Encyclopedia Brown is a forgotten character? Nooo! Better buy a copy for the nephew.
How about the Great Brain books? Those were really funny, plus illustrated by Mercer Mayer.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Katerina Bee - Apr 27, 2004 6:38:00 am PDT #2384 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
erikaj - Apr 27, 2004 6:40:43 am PDT #2385 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Lois Duncan was one of my favorites. Especially "Killing Mr. Griffin" cause my math teacher pissed me off.
Polter-Cow - Apr 27, 2004 6:41:55 am PDT #2386 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Incognito Mosquito - Private Insective: I gotta check this one out.
I think it might have been a series; I don't remember a lot of details except for one scene where he goes to a bar and orders a milk. And when he gets suspicious looks, he adds, "Put it in a dirty glass!"
Anyone else read the McGirk mysteries and the Ghost Squad books by E.W. Hildick?
Another author I read a lot was Edward Eager. Half Magic, Seven-Day Magic, Knight's Castle...
Lois Duncan was one of my favorites. Especially "Killing Mr. Griffin" cause my math teacher pissed me off.
Yeah, I read several of hers. And Joan Lowery Nixon.
Ginger - Apr 27, 2004 6:44:46 am PDT #2387 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I loved Edward Eager. In the wake of Harry Potter, many of his books are now back in print.
Lilty Cash - Apr 27, 2004 6:47:16 am PDT #2388 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I loved the Origin of Fear Street books. (There were two, weren't there? Or am I just remembering two Sweet Valley Saga books and assuming that all the "historical backstory" books that came out around then had two volumes?)
That one was actually a trilogy. The 2nd one was the best though. Wow. I really do remember all of these. I even remember the cover.
beth b - Apr 27, 2004 6:48:36 am PDT #2389 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Encycloperdia Brown is still popular at the library. same with Edward Eager.
Katerina Bee - Apr 27, 2004 7:20:02 am PDT #2390 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
I want to get the Edward Eager books, especially "Half Magic," but I would like to have them as the sixties vintage hardbacks I used to check out from the library. Today's paperback editions just don't have the cachet of well-handled old paper.
And the "Chronicles of Narnia," too. There are so many editions out there with extremely poor reproduction of the delicate black and white illustrations. It's so sad to see the pictures all muddy.
Pix - Apr 27, 2004 7:21:24 am PDT #2391 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Anyone else see the Onion's Encyclopedia Brown obituary last fall? I laughed a lot.
Polter-Cow - Apr 27, 2004 7:26:12 am PDT #2392 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I want to get the Edward Eager books, especially "Half Magic," but I would like to have them as the sixties vintage hardbacks I used to check out from the library.
Ooh, yeah, I'm definitely like that about books. I want to collect the Pike books, but with the cover art I grew up with, not these bizarre reissues with generic photos on them.
Ginger - Apr 27, 2004 7:30:03 am PDT #2393 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I still have the original Narnia paperbacks with the Pauline Baynes illustrations. They're getting a little fragile, but I'm never letting them go.