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plethora__

omg readin iz kewl lolz

Jun 22, 2006 09:39

Recently, I was at Barnes & Noble, browsing with sheepish happiness through the Young Adult section. I wanted something light, something cheery, and something semi-brainless; I figured these were all apt prerequesites for a post-Trauma of Junior Year Read. (FYI: I found all of the above in David Leviathan's Boy Meets Boy, which was a great quick ( Read more... )

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plethora__ June 22 2006, 23:26:37 UTC

Aw, I'm so excited. And jealous-- how was Dar in Columbus?

I'm working at a JCC daycamp in the next town over from me, and have a group of five year-old girls. It should be... tiring? Interesting? Even, possibly slightly fun? Let's hope so. I have training on Friday, and camp starts on Monday. Then it's eight straight weeks of little girls named Sarah and Rebecca and Rachel and Leah. :P

plethora__ June 24 2006, 21:51:26 UTC

Also! I've been meaning to send you something for AGES but don't have your address... could you e-mail it to me? I thought you had (?) but I searched my Inbox and no address was to be found.

fragilesymphony June 22 2006, 22:18:33 UTC

My sister has that book. It's one of her favorites. I really wish I was kidding. I looked at it in the bookstore when she showed it to me, and I literally cringed. That isn't a book! I could do that too! Maybe we should publish an ORG chat and see if we make any money. It must have looked really odd when we went to pay, buying that...thing...and my copy of Bel Canto together. Hee.

plethora__ June 22 2006, 23:27:33 UTC

And I bet ours would be more clever. Well, I mean, I haven't read the book, but I love you guys!

susurrus111 June 22 2006, 23:36:24 UTC

Dude, publish one of our old FSC threads? heh. That thing would a) be a million times better AND funnier and b) would probably be inappropriate for a young adults book. heh.

I totally agree with you, Beth. On all accounts. That's not a book, it's a conversation. A badly written conversation. I don't mind AIM in books for short spurts (for example the 'Sisterhood' books, they have AIM conversation but so minute it's barely noticeable.)
Why can't people just read regular books and enjoy them?

plethora__ June 23 2006, 00:46:47 UTC

Ha. The only place those would be allowed is in really seedy, Adults Only bookstores, probably. *smirk*

literati555 June 23 2006, 01:51:43 UTC

I love you.

(I saw those at Borders and then noticed a few middle school girls at my school carrying one of the two around and I kept thinking...you know, I'd be embarrassed to be seen reading that, supposing I would want to. *shudder*)

Not only is it all IM...which could concievably be pulled off in a book, maybe, I suppose (though it would take some real talent), but..."ur" is absolutely the end of it for me. Any book that includes that in perfect seriousness simply does not entirely fulfill all the qualities that mean "book."

sarahw18 June 23 2006, 07:13:11 UTC

Bethiiieeee. I looove youuu. Those books are scaaaaryyyy. Yeah, it's late at night, I'm awake. Whateva.

deadly_angst June 24 2006, 01:01:19 UTC

I'm so happy I live in a spanish-speaking third world country where we only get books that were originally written in english when they are good enough to make the effort of translating them. Even though we have some crappy spanish writers, nothing compared to that.