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Lost: One Fairy Tale
I had a very intense dream in the early hours of this morning that was basically one long adventure/fairy tale. There were awesome girl characters--a walking descendant of merfolk who could travel via the foam on ocean waves, for example--and awesome boy characters, too.
I knew if I wrote it all down exactly as I dreamed it, it would be a ( Read more... ) -
Oh, man.
There's not going to be any peace on my desk until this manuscript goes away or I find another task lighting solution. Basically, I may've bought the halogen lamp for just this sort of paper-manuscript fiddling, but Merlin wants his lamp back, DAMMIT WOMAN, I'm trying to sleep ( Read more... ) -
Thirty Years
If I had to time travel thirty years into the past--which is within my own lifetime, mind you--I would not be able to fit in. If for no other reason (and there would be other reasons), I would seem incredibly hyperactive and attention deficit ( Read more... ) -
Newbery Reading III
I'm examining my experiences reading the Newbery list winners/honorees, trying to dissect how I read things as a child, and how that differs from reading as an adult.
Newbery Post I
Newbery Post II
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Newbery Reading
If this becomes a meme, it's not going to be one of those "Star this, bold that" ones. I want to address the Newbery winners and honor books that I have consumed as a reader. I want to discuss the ones I read as a kid, and the ones I read as an adult, and the ones I've read in both modes, and see how my opinions have changed. I suspect I will ( Read more... ) -
Woe and Rumors of Woe
Left my CEM at work two days in a row, as though I am resistant to working on it or something, which I'm actually not. So I'm going in early to snag it and get some good coffee shop work in before heading back in to the ILL office to Make the Books Go (tm). Good thing there's a coffee shop in the library next door. (Too bad the coffee/tea isn't ( Read more... ) -
Not the Cool Parent After All
I really thought I was okay with my stepdaughter learning to drive. I am pro growing up in the most awesome ways possible--let's hit those important milestones on target, and also when the kid is comfortable! Not too early, not too late! No wishes for arrested development, no holding back a kid who already knows who she is--and no pushing the ( Read more... ) -
Distractathon!
Per Steve Buchheit's brilliant recent realization, I went and nabbed all the Lang #color# Fairy Books from Project Gutenberg. There are helpfully formatted Kindle editions, even. I also nabbed all the Oscar Wilde and Grimm fairy stories there ( Read more... )
