bookshelves: adultfiction
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bookshelves: juvenile-fiction, picture-book
Simple story. Great artwork. My boys enjoy this one. There really aren't a lot of stories out there about mowing so it's a nice change of pace. I enjoy exposing them to different types of art as well as great stories and this one is really more about the artwork than the story for me, but the story seems to work for the boys so we're all happy. ]]>
bookshelves: adultfiction, young-adult-fiction
Started off so good and so fresh and so exciting and ended.... well, flat (you were afraid I was going to say so yesterday, weren't you?). And weird and so much less than it could have been. It's like it got caught up in itself and it's own coolness and forgot it's own message. Or maybe there wasn't a message. Or maybe the message was that the book couldn't even pull-off the message. The idea was good, great even but I don't know - I was just disappointed, that's all. ]]>
Peggy
added a quote:
"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too." — Khaled Hosseini
"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too." — Khaled Hosseini
Peggy
liked a trivia question:
In 1970, a noted American writer ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado on the Freak Power ticket. This party's platform included promoting the decriminalization of drugs (for personal use only, not trafficking), turning the streets into pedestrian malls, banning any building that would obscure a view of the mountains, and renaming Aspen "Fat City" to deter investors. Who was this writer/candidate? see if you know the answer »
In 1970, a noted American writer ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado on the Freak Power ticket. This party's platform included promoting the decriminalization of drugs (for personal use only, not trafficking), turning the streets into pedestrian malls, banning any building that would obscure a view of the mountains, and renaming Aspen "Fat City" to deter investors. Who was this writer/candidate? see if you know the answer »
bookshelves: juvenile-fiction, picture-book
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bookshelves: juvenile-fiction, picture-book
This one makes my four-year-old laugh out loud. I love that. The exasperated pigeon, the wiley little duck - it's all so fun! The artwork is of course perfect for this brief story. I actually enjoy this one more than Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. That is a good story as well, but it doesn't make my four-year-old laugh like this one does. Something about a hot dog eating pigeon just tickles him. And speaking of tickling... if you like this one, you'll probably also like Don't Tickle the Duck by Ethan Long. ]]>
Peggy
liked a trivia question:
Who wrote these lines as the opening of a major work....
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry
fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the
starry dynamo in the machinery of night...
see if you know the answer »
Who wrote these lines as the opening of a major work....
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry
fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the
starry dynamo in the machinery of night...
see if you know the answer »
bookshelves: juvenile-fiction, picture-book
Punny... I mean funny! hee, hee. Hey, I like this one. It's silly and fun and told in a dry-serious tone that really tickles kids' funny bones. ]]>