Comments on: Books, books, and books

By: writtenwyrdd

writtenwyrdd — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:24:00 +0000

Five Children & It - E. Nesbitt
All the Mary Poppins books
Both 101 Dalmations books
Madeleine L'Engel's books
Phantom Tollbooth
Narnia books
Andre Norton's books

Shall I continue?

By: December Quinn

December Quinn — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:44:00 +0000

What a lovely image, Erik. You’ll have to use that in one of your stories.

By: Erik Ivan James

Erik Ivan James — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:04:00 +0000

Spelling? HA!
My dictionary has more holes in it from use than my underwear.

By: December Quinn

December Quinn — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:15:00 +0000

Oooh...Robyn and Cyn...will you guys still like me if I admit that I hated, hated, A Wrinkle in Time?

There's another girl's book along those lines, I believe, and that's the one I liked. I think it's kind of how you either like The Caine Mutiny or Catch-22, but not both.

By: cyn

cyn — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:27:00 +0000

robyn, i never even knew about the other series you mention by l'engle. my fave books (i've read over and over and to the bubs now):

wrinkle in time

island of the blue dolphins

a little princess

ballet shoes and dancing shoes
by noel streatfield (she's english!)

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:30:00 +0000

My gripe has more to do with grammar than spelling- it drives me hair-pulling insane when people interchange there for their, been for being, your for you're, etc.

My favorite YA was Madeline L'Engle's series Meet the Austins. The second one, The Moon By Night, got me through being fourteen. I liked A Wrinkle in Time, too, but the heroine of the Austin series was the same age as I was when I read the books. I related completely.

By: December Quinn

December Quinn — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:35:00 +0000

You bad, bad boy JTC! Lol. I think there's a lot more for young boys to read now than there was then, don't you? Although I remember really liking the Great Brain books and this series about a guy named Alvin Furnald, which was really good. Or was it Rupert? I know therewas a series about a boy named Rupert too.

CC Poindexter sounds really familiar, Jenn. I'll have to google that one.

Environmental is a sucky word to type, isn't it? I just tried it, what a pain in the ass.

By: December Quinn

December Quinn — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:31:00 +0000

You should try that website, SW. I bet they’d remember. Actually, we have quite a few Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, the hubby’s got a little collection. I liked an Old West one where you could end up in jail.

Welcome, Yesamin! Yes, it does make my brain cry. I’m just really hoping it doesn’t come down to that.
That sucks about the book being given away. Why do parents do that stuff?

By: December Quinn

December Quinn — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:29:00 +0000

I’ve never heard of Trixie Belden. I’ll definitely check those out next time I’m looking for YA stuff–and I have an excuse, bcause I have two daughters so one of these days they’ll be reading all this stuff!

The net does seem to infect us with bad spelling, doesn’t it? The two I see al the time that make me want to scream are “pregnate” for “pregnant” (if you can’t apell it, you really shouldn’t be it) and “finace” for “fiance/ee”. Which follows the same point, really.

By: Jenn on the Island

Jenn on the Island — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:08:00 +0000

I have a ton of Trixie Beldens, Annie! Most are early hardcovers, but they're in my mom's basement somewhere...

My fave was called 'C.C. Poindexter'. It's one of those coming of age, teen angst books, but it was written with a good portion of very dry humour.

I can not type environemtnal.

Sucks cause that's what I do for a living and I need to type it a lot.