Coraline and The Graveyard Book for sure. Also the picture book about trading dad for a goldfish because it's funny.
We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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."
Kat - May 09, 2013 5:17:11 pm PDT #20783 of 28631
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
JZ - May 09, 2013 5:26:49 pm PDT #20784 of 28631
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Stardust, maybe? It's been ages since I even skimmed through it, but I don't remember anything glaringly inappropriate.
sj - May 09, 2013 5:29:39 pm PDT #20785 of 28631
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
He really prefers graphic novels to books, but I don't know what he has read, so I bought him the book on drawing superheroes instead, because I heard he recently started becoming interesting in drawing.
DebetEsse - May 09, 2013 5:30:57 pm PDT #20786 of 28631
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Stardust is sort of a hybrid of text and image, at least in the One True Edition (IMO), but it does include a sex scene in the beginning.
erikaj - May 10, 2013 5:39:42 am PDT #20787 of 28631
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Thanks, JZ. Glad you like them. Your check's incoming. I started reading a lot of stuff ahead of my age, so I would be terrible at assessing what to give a kid to read.
-t - May 10, 2013 5:45:12 am PDT #20788 of 28631
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like there's a significant different between eleven-year-olds who picking up Sandman on their own, and giving a copy to them. But I don't really have an opinion as to appropriateness.
erikaj - May 10, 2013 5:52:27 am PDT #20789 of 28631
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I would definitely not stop a kid from reading what they like. But, yeah, I could see handing it out is sort of an endorsement. Or at least leaves you open in a "Where did you get THAT?" conversation.
sj - May 10, 2013 5:55:09 am PDT #20790 of 28631
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I feel like there's a significant different between eleven-year-olds who picking up Sandman on their own, and giving a copy to them. But I don't really have an opinion as to appropriateness.
I agree with this completely. My mother still worried about what movies I saw and TV I was watching at 11, but I pretty much read whatever I wanted.
JZ - May 10, 2013 9:00:29 am PDT #20791 of 28631
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thanks, JZ. Glad you like them.
Not blowing smoke up your ass, either. I wish that people with more money than us would notice your work and pounce on it, because it's seriously fucking good, tight storytelling.
erikaj - May 10, 2013 9:22:45 am PDT #20792 of 28631
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I wish that, too. I keep thinking I get my big break, when really? Not so much. Homicide rule 5"It's good to be good. It's better to be lucky." I'm not that lucky.(Although I was hoping to get reviewed as a "promising newcomer" or something...I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed about that.)