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Best Characters: TV and Literary

Posted by: girlreading on: August 30, 2006

Okay, James Gunn did it, then I saw Pop Candy and Joss Whedon do it. So, I figure, let’s do it. Let’s make a list. The rules are the same as James’s, but since our middle name is “Literary”, we can expand our list to include those characters from books. I can’t think to clearly [...]

The Weather

Posted by: girlreading on: August 30, 2006

This past weekend the wind changed to the north (a cold front!) and brought with it all of the pollen it could find. And, more importantly, it rained. It rained all weekend. And, it was the good rain. A nice steady, straight rain that turned my lawn from a crispy brown back to green again. [...]

Sleeping Discussion

Posted by: girlreading on: August 30, 2006

We are not meeting this Saturday as it is a holiday weekend and most people will be out-of-town. I will see you on September 9th at the Full Circle Bookstore at 7pm. The book is Sleeping Freshman Never Lie by David Lubar.
If you are looking for a discussion guide, I could not find one on [...]

Inkheart Movie

Posted by: girlreading on: August 24, 2006

Cinematical posted Brendan Fraser has been cast as Mo in the film version of Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart. I’ve read the book and it’s sequel, Inkspell. The books are similar to Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next’s books, in which literary characters cross into reality and real people cross over into literature. I thought the plot went above [...]

Define Normal

Posted by: girlreading on: August 23, 2006

Search Terms: define normal read online
The author, Julie Anne Peters has a chapter available online. My library subscribes to NetLibrary, but I didn’t find it listed there. You may want to check with your local library about e-books and whether they have a subscription for their patrons. Unfortunately, many e-book collections are centered on higher [...]

A Lovely Wringing of Hands

Posted by: girlreading on: August 22, 2006

Search Terms: lovely bones banned
Big A little a posted in March a Malibu Times article on the concern of parents over of Alice Sebold’s Lovely Bones. The teacher’s approved the book over the parents objections.

Banned Tango

Posted by: girlreading on: August 20, 2006

Search Terms: ‘and tango makes three’ ban
There are too many hits! My brain! Overload!
I searched Google this way: “and tango makes three” +banned. From the links that I found, it wasn’t just in the U.S. that the book caused controversy. I pulled web sites on both sides of the issue. And, these are from the [...]

Potter Comic Book

Posted by: girlreading on: August 18, 2006

Search Terms: harry potter order of phoenix comic
Chick Publications has a comic book tract extolling how reading the Potter books will lead a person directly to evil.
[It's occurred to me, belatedly, that the search terms were probably cut-off and the searcher wanted the comic con information. Oh, well. This was an interesting find. --girlreading]

Lord Asriel Bond

Posted by: girlreading on: August 18, 2006

Variety and Cinematical are reporting that Daniel Craig (the new James Bond) has signed on to Golden Compass movie.
Hmmm, verrry interrressting. Looks like I’ll need to add some of his movies to my Netflix list and re-read the book again sooner than planned.

Chosen Again

Posted by: girlreading on: August 18, 2006

Did you finally scrape all you pennies to gether only to find out that you couldn’t buy a copy of the Buffy Chosen Collection anywhere? Unless, of couse, you wanted to pay $200 – $300 for it. Well, <happy happy joy joy> it’s available again. Barnes and Noble is listing is as coming soon and [...]


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