Skip and Barnum! That was it! Thanks, Kathy.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Oct 21, 2010 5:38:56 pm PDT #12727 of 28769
Because books.
Connie Neil - Oct 21, 2010 6:15:04 pm PDT #12728 of 28769
brillig
Is King of the Wind the one about The Godolphin Arabian?
Yes! And now I'm torn between checking it out of the library to see if I still like or just tracking down a copy and buying it. And the White Stallion we had in hardbound, and and I adored that book, too.
I'm a grown up, now, and I can buy kids books for myself all I want.
Typo Boy - Oct 21, 2010 6:26:17 pm PDT #12729 of 28769
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Don't know much about Morgans. Though I understand that Justin Morgan Had A Horse.
Laga - Oct 21, 2010 6:33:37 pm PDT #12730 of 28769
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
...but he wasn't called Bucephalus.
Pix - Oct 21, 2010 6:58:01 pm PDT #12731 of 28769
The status is NOT quo.
I loved Justin Morgan, too (I never knew it was also a movie!) I will go off about the awesomeness of morgans with very little notice. It's almost as bad as when I get started on percherons.
I went to UConn, where Justin Morgan was born and raised!
Laga - Oct 21, 2010 6:59:27 pm PDT #12732 of 28769
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
cool!
sumi - Oct 21, 2010 10:40:52 pm PDT #12733 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
Black Gold is about Black Gold - who won the Kentucky Derby in 1923. He was sired by Black Toney (Col. Bradley named all his horses with "B" names) out of a mare called Useeit.
sumi - Oct 22, 2010 5:26:47 am PDT #12734 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
A new illustrated edition of the Louisa May Alcott short story, "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving."
Whatever happened with the publication of her sister's journal from when she studied art in Paris?
Consuela - Oct 22, 2010 8:38:09 am PDT #12735 of 28769
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, boo, I missed the Marguerite Henry squee. I read everything I could get my hands on by Henry and Farley and Kjellgard--dogs and horses were my go-to books until I got into junior high and discovered historicals and SF/F. And then it was Olivia Coolidge and Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Moccasin Trail and Mara Daughter of the Nile) and Zilpha Keatley Snyder and Andre Norton.
I am 45 and was in college when the Sweetvalley High books came out, so I've never even picked one up.
Calli - Oct 22, 2010 9:24:16 am PDT #12736 of 28769
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think I've read most of the horse books mentioned here. I wasn't very horsey, but my older sister was and got a lot of horse-related books. And if a book came into our home I probably at least tried to read it. (Didn't always make it through Dad's westerns.)