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Eating almonds in the moonlight
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Here's something fun. If books could have sex, what would they be like in bed?
You don't fuck The Fountainhead. The Fountainhead fucks you.
Lots of fun in the comments with people chiming in on their favorite books. Here's what I wrote for LOTR:
Last night with The Lord of the Rings was intense and unique. His attention to detail made ( Read more... ) -
...because just over the hill, ten thousand pumpkins lay waiting to be cut.
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From Neil Gaiman, an appreciation of Ray Bradbury.
...There are authors I remember for their stories, others I remember for their people. Bradbury is the only one I remember who sticks in my heart for his times of year and for his places. He called a book of short stories The October Country. It’s the perfect Bradbury title. It gives us a time ( ( Read more... ) -
Book recs
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rabidsamfan just posted a request for book recommendations. She asked for children's and YA books, and I posted a list. I thought other folks out here might be interested, so here is my list:
All of E.B. White
All of Edward Lear
The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
All of the D'Aulaire books
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Elijah gives a hand to charity
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Elijah and Orlando donated ink handprints to a children's charity in the U.K.
I am listening to an audiobook of Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Stranger Land. I swear, if there is a role other than Frodo that could have been written for Elijah, it's Valentine Michael Smith, the Man from Mars. It would be the perfect marriage of character and -
The charming smell of must and the ghosts of fingers past
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Bye, bye, used bookstores...
Think I'm kidding?
I only wish I were.
*sigh*
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Tell me this is not the best opening line to a book EVER:
May I speak candidly, fleshling, one rational creature to another, myself a book and you a reader?
That's the first line in The Last Witchfinder, the latest novel by James Morrow. If you've never read Morrow, you're in for a treat. He writes books of such surpassing intelligence, ( Read more... )
