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Feb. 23rd, 2005 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onemuseleftLois Lowry's going to be at the University of Richmond on March 15th.
Now, I think The Messenger was largely crap, and the ending made me throw my advance copy across the room and very nearly through the sliding glass door. But The Giver, Gathering Blue and Number the Stars are some of my favorite children's books. When I read Gathering Blue for the first time, I put the book down while wishing it was about two hundred pages longer. And, maybe I'm just a sappy girl, but Number the Stars makes me cry every time I read it. And I've read it probably close to thirty times.
Must. Find. Way. To. Attend.
Actually, it probably won't be hard. If I can convince Tonya to trade me for the day shift, I can make it to Richmond with a few hours to spare before the event starts. Here's hoping Tonya's willing to trade.
Also, Christina at the Short Pump store gets cookies, gold and all the sexual favors she wants for calling me up and telling me about this.
Randomness!
Kelly's Top Ten Children's Lit Fantasies
Not like that, you perverts
1) Meeting Harrier Stratemeyer and having the opportunity to slap the hell out of her.
2) Meeting Margaret Peterson Haddix. I would worship her if I didn't have the sneaking suspicion she might be evil. Also, if her Running Out of Time wasn't the inspiration for The Village I'll eat my hat.
3) Writing a Hardy Boys book. Oh, shut up. We all have our childish dreams.
4) NOTE: Garth Nix made this one come true by including pirates into Drowned Wednesday.
5) If there would be even the slightest possibility that the end of A Series of Unfortunate Events would actually reveal the truth. Alas, I doubt it very much.
6) Holly Black writes another teen novel, this one involving pirates. Or else a sequel to Tithe. Whichever.
7) That everyone in the world would read The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. I've done my part, damnit, I handsell the thing by the truckload at the bookstore, but you've all got to meet me halfway!
8) Kelly would very much like that, if Catherine Fischer were to write a sequel to The Oracle Betrayed, which it seems she is, then it manages to live up to the ending of the first novel which was, Kelly thought delightfully bittersweet and just a little bit hopeless.
9) Gossip Girl, The Clique and the Mates, Dates and... series would all just stop. Please. GOD, please.
10) That one day The Bartimaeus Trilogy knocks Rowling off the bestseller list. It'll never happen, but I can dream. NOTE: I like Rowling, I like Harry Potter, but I think Stroud's books are just better.
Well, that's the end of the random spamming of your friends page for the day. Please, hold your applause.
Now, I think The Messenger was largely crap, and the ending made me throw my advance copy across the room and very nearly through the sliding glass door. But The Giver, Gathering Blue and Number the Stars are some of my favorite children's books. When I read Gathering Blue for the first time, I put the book down while wishing it was about two hundred pages longer. And, maybe I'm just a sappy girl, but Number the Stars makes me cry every time I read it. And I've read it probably close to thirty times.
Must. Find. Way. To. Attend.
Actually, it probably won't be hard. If I can convince Tonya to trade me for the day shift, I can make it to Richmond with a few hours to spare before the event starts. Here's hoping Tonya's willing to trade.
Also, Christina at the Short Pump store gets cookies, gold and all the sexual favors she wants for calling me up and telling me about this.
Randomness!
Kelly's Top Ten Children's Lit Fantasies
Not like that, you perverts
1) Meeting Harrier Stratemeyer and having the opportunity to slap the hell out of her.
2) Meeting Margaret Peterson Haddix. I would worship her if I didn't have the sneaking suspicion she might be evil. Also, if her Running Out of Time wasn't the inspiration for The Village I'll eat my hat.
3) Writing a Hardy Boys book. Oh, shut up. We all have our childish dreams.
4) NOTE: Garth Nix made this one come true by including pirates into Drowned Wednesday.
5) If there would be even the slightest possibility that the end of A Series of Unfortunate Events would actually reveal the truth. Alas, I doubt it very much.
6) Holly Black writes another teen novel, this one involving pirates. Or else a sequel to Tithe. Whichever.
7) That everyone in the world would read The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. I've done my part, damnit, I handsell the thing by the truckload at the bookstore, but you've all got to meet me halfway!
8) Kelly would very much like that, if Catherine Fischer were to write a sequel to The Oracle Betrayed, which it seems she is, then it manages to live up to the ending of the first novel which was, Kelly thought delightfully bittersweet and just a little bit hopeless.
9) Gossip Girl, The Clique and the Mates, Dates and... series would all just stop. Please. GOD, please.
10) That one day The Bartimaeus Trilogy knocks Rowling off the bestseller list. It'll never happen, but I can dream. NOTE: I like Rowling, I like Harry Potter, but I think Stroud's books are just better.
Well, that's the end of the random spamming of your friends page for the day. Please, hold your applause.
