I read something where the author completed a Chandler ms and I thought it was pretty good. I think it was called something like "Poodle Springs".
I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
erikaj - Sep 07, 2025 12:45:45 pm PDT #28429 of 28440
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bennett - Sep 07, 2025 2:49:02 pm PDT #28430 of 28440
Robert B. Parker (of the Spencer mysteries) finished "Poodle Springs".
-t - Sep 07, 2025 7:12:42 pm PDT #28431 of 28440
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, noting that on my detective fiction spreadsheet. I’m a little stalled out in early John Dickson Carr but I’ll get to Chandler eventually.
I’m reading The Left-handed Book Sellers of London and really enjoying it.
Thanks for mentioning, Calli! I bounced off the first Nix I sampled so I wasn’t going to read this despite the intriguing titkle, but I checked my library when you posted about it and they had it as an audiobook so I am listening to it now and quite into it
Jessica - Sep 12, 2025 8:58:03 am PDT #28432 of 28440
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I am reading (listening) Katabasis for my work book club and it is...a slog. I'm about a third of the way in and as far as I'm concerned both of these people can stay in Hell forever, I really don't care if they ever make it to the end of their quest.
(It doesn't help that the overriding metaphor here is "graduate school is Hell" and so me being also in the middle of a BtVS rewatch means I'm getting two "school is Hell" metaphors at once, only one of them is way way more fun. )
Jessica - Sep 17, 2025 8:27:27 am PDT #28433 of 28440
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I finished Katabasis. It was a slog all the way through, but I'm curious if anyone else here read it, and, if so, am I the only one who thinks Alice is gay and deeply repressed about it? I give her and Peter....6 months, max.
sj - Sep 18, 2025 1:10:03 pm PDT #28434 of 28440
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ltc’s 4th grade teacher is brand new this year and has requested help in building her library. ltc’s tastes in book are very specific at this point. So, I’m open to suggestions of what I should look for to help her teacher out.
dcp - Sep 18, 2025 1:38:34 pm PDT #28435 of 28440
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
The books that immediately come to mind when I remember 4th grade are:
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
Owls In The Family
by Farley Mowat
Follow My Leader
by James B. Garfield
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
Some others that occur to me are:
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
A Wrinkle In Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
bennett - Sep 18, 2025 2:19:43 pm PDT #28436 of 28440
I think that's the age that I started reading mysteries - Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc. Dunno what's popular now.
JenP - Sep 18, 2025 2:33:49 pm PDT #28437 of 28440
How about The Borrowers by Mary Norton and James and the Giant Peach, Dahl? Those are two I loved around that age.
erikaj - Sep 18, 2025 2:36:25 pm PDT #28438 of 28440
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing