Revisiting the kids' books theme from last week, I went out this week to buy books as gifts. For a 10 year old boy, I got the Westing Game, Silent to the Bone, and the first book in the Dark Is Rising series. For an 8 year old girl I got Harriet the Spy, Ballet Shoes, and Ella Enchanted. I hope they like them (I don't know these kids at all, just their ages). I'm really excited about the books!
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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."
Jess M. - Dec 19, 2003 7:49:35 am PST #271 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Strix - Dec 19, 2003 9:49:09 am PST #272 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
HA! Deb, they have Plainsong, Eyes in the Fire, Fire Queen AND they have Weaver on order !
Go YOU!
WEIRDNESS: PLainsong is at PArk University, as a children's book. How bizarre.
Is it a children's book, Deb? Hmm?
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 10:19:46 am PST #273 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That might be the same mixup Kat was talking about in Kat "We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good" Dec 18, 2003 4:37:10 pm PST, Erin.
Vortex - Dec 19, 2003 10:19:59 am PST #274 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Is it a children's book, Deb? Hmm?
I don't think so (as in I've read it and don't think it's for children), but wasn't someone saying that there was another Plainsong that was a children's book?
ETA: seconds behind! Seconds!
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 10:22:38 am PST #275 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ooh! I out-Nillyed Vortex.
DavidS - Dec 19, 2003 10:23:49 am PST #276 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ooh! I out-Nillyed Vortex.
I think you could probably out-Vortex Nilly too, if you had a mind.
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2003 10:25:00 am PST #277 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But then I'd feel bad.
DavidS - Dec 19, 2003 10:26:41 am PST #278 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But then I'd feel bad.
Yeah. Sort of like, "I could totally kick Nelson Mandela's ass."
Kat - Dec 19, 2003 10:29:15 am PST #279 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Actually the Haruf-Plainsong is also not really a kid's book at all. It's about a 17-year-old girl who is pregnant and stumbles into two bachelor brothers' lives.
It is similar to another book that is YA, but not children's set in Winnipeg (Confessions of a Heartless Girl) which is similar in it's sparseness and it's plot and it's sort of melodic prose.
Haruf's Plainsong is great to be teamed with Peace Like A River in that they are both so Plains-States in the best way possible.
It's a really amazing book but not for meant or written for children.
Strix - Dec 19, 2003 10:50:00 am PST #280 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Outted as a skipper.
How nautical of me.