While I'm on LJ for a change again (Sorry friends for neglecting you so much)

I have officially been utterly blown away by the illustrative stuff by himmapaan today.

And now have at least TWO more books I wish desperately were on my shelves.

So, some here may know of my absolute love affair with the writing of Amanda McKittrick Ros. Others will be saying "Who?". Wikipedia is only sort of your friend, since they don't actually have excerpts. I wrote about her this summer though, when I first heard of her.

And tonight I was watching Frank Miller's batman get ripped apart, and stared at ( Read more... )

Ok, so a randomly typo'd "time" became "tome" in a thing I wrote up really fast. I spotted it right after posting (it was my DevArt journal) and went in to edit it, and not for the first time flashed back to something I was exposed to in parts at school ( Read more... )

I. Uh. Finally started reading Nurk today.

Yeah, the Ursula Vernon book I bought in.. uh.. May?

This is not the first paragraphs or such, but I do submit them as the point where I became gigglingly enthralled UTTERLY:

More than anything, Nurk wanted to be like his grandmother Surka the warrior shrew. Surka had been a fighter, a dishwasher, and a ( Read more... )

I... I was poking at my copy of Amphigorey and came to the list of "Also by/with Edward Gorey" and... and...

It said there was going to be a Gorey illustrated version og Irene Iddlesleigh by AMANDA MCKITTRICK ROS ( Read more... )

To amuse myself today, I have rotated the 'bathroom books' in the house around. Several Get Fuzzy and Calvin and Hobbes books were moved back to the shelf, and in their stead, my Amphigorey and Amphigorey Too were put in the proper racks ( Read more... )

I skimmed through the old Catholic reader I found, and mentioned earlier, where the Wholesome White Family moves from the city to An Idyllic (White) Small Town in simplistic sentences ( Read more... )

Thanks to conversations about "Dick and Jane" style children's readers with a friend, I found the old 1940's-50's primary reader I saved from the dumpster at my first Catholic school. The copy I have is from the second or so printing in 1952 ( Read more... )

I've got to admit, mom is more excited about the latest HP movie than I am ( Read more... )

Not more than two months ago, I reread my entire David Eddings collection. Belgariad through the Tamuli, basically ( Read more... )