Mm, I almost cried today. Kinda. Reading A Time for Dancing. I was rather surprised. I mean, I’d read it before, and for some reason I thought it was cheesy and forced. Why the change in thought this time? Maybe because I read most of it in one whole sitting, as opposed to what I usually do, read snatches of it whenever I’m not doing anything else? I don’t know. Maybe.
I noticed I was clenching my hands while reading it. ^.^ I discovered there are three veins going to my thumb that way. ahaha …
Hey, I just realized emazing doesn’t put a “© you can not copy and paste this, but we don’t mind forwarding the mail ;)” bunk message. :D *copies and pastes*
Little Golden Books
Today’s Web Site:
If you’re a baby boomer, you probably remember Little Golden Books from your childhood. In fact, if you’ve had children of your own, you’ve probably read some of them to your kids.
The Little Golden Books first appeared in 1942, and were sold in dime stores, drug stores and food markets. Many writers and artists who first appeared in LGB titles later gained fame for their work: Richard Scarry, Garth Williams, Margaret Wise Brown (writer of the famous GOODNIGHT, MOON), and others. (One of my favorites, who’s almost unknown today, is Tibor Gergely.)
There are a number of people who collect Little Golden Books. You can learn more about LGBs from the Collecting Little Golden Books site, maintained by Steve Santi, author of a book about collecting the series.
—Sue Whitehouse
:D I remember those! I remember thinking how odd the binding was. ^.^; I didn’t realize that they had such significance … *shrugs* I think we got rid of all our books, in the past year, maybe …
Wheee, my laptop came today. :D It’s heavy. T-T And the case is heavy too. O.? Umm, Hidek turned it on. ¬_¬ And I don’t want to turn it off, cause … well, I’m not at the main screen, it’s a screen saying I have to read … stuff, and then press any key on the keyboard to say I’ve read it, and I don’t want to read it, so I don’t want to press keys on the keyboard either. And I don’t want to just turn it off because … I think that would be bad? ^_^;;
Um, did I ever say? I finished reading Lirael. Last Wednesday. ;_; Are authors allowed to do that? Make a whole long really good and juicy book, then make it “to be continued”??? Hmm, I don’t really mind, since it just means more goodness from Garth Nix, but still … when is Abhorsen coming out? :( *checks Amazon* “This item will be published in January 2003.” Wahhh!!! *sniffles* How will I live?
Oyeah, Hidek, Mama, and I went to Super Crown on Sunday, and the new ownership really really really … stinks. There were two shelves of sci-fi (two Star Wars books O_O) and the Young Adult and “chapter books” were still stuck together. >_< Seriously, does this tell me I’m supposed to move on from Young Adult? grar. They didn’t have Caroline B. Cooney, either.
So we went to Barnes & Noble, at the mall, and they didn’t have For All Time either. ;_; But I bought Episode Zero, Chobits 1, Crown Duel (double book version *dances*), and Witch Child. Born Blue still isn’t in paperback. *ponders* So, I read Episode Zero, and spent last night reading Chobits, then had a really weird dream that I don’t really remember. ^_^;
And Simpsons is in Spanish again. O.o What’s going on?
1:24 Mommy isn’t home yet. Wow, the laptop’s been on for quite a while …
Yaaaaay! I finally got to go to Barnes & Noble!! yayay! And um, if anyone was paying attention, no Mommy did not take me when she said she would, ’cause I didn’t have any money and she didn’t feel like lending me any. ’Tis okay, this way I got the books I’ve been waiting for for suuuch a long time: What Janie Found by Caroline B. Cooney, Dreamland by Sarah Dessen, and Lirael by Garth Nix. bweeeee! such fun, such fun!
They didn’t have For All Time though. :( I’ll just have to buy it off Amazon. :b Daddy told me Amazon lowered their minimum free shipping order to $49.99. From there I want Episode Zero, Chobits, X/1999, and Star Wars Ep II visual dictionary. Oh, and For All Time, of course. ^_^
Hey, look, the 200th entry. :b *is still miffed, but has something entirely different from the other entry*
I forget what I wanted to say. O.o Something about the Janie books. Augh! I completely forgot! Something about the first two. The third can kick the bucket. ^_^;; I’m kidding, kinda … I mean … (spoilers) It was nice when Janie made family (heh, like make friends, get it?) with Jodie and Brian (Brendan is stupid), then later her New Jersey Mom and Dad and even Stephen (Brendan is still stupid).
But somehow the books aren’t like the other two. I don’t want to say things that sound like a critic … but still, I suppose the first was about Janie finding out (almost) everything about her past, the second about her finding out about her New Jersey family, and the third about her finding out about herself, and about her and Reeve, and about Reeve. But somehow the third isn’t as internal as the others are. I suppose I mean personal, but I like the feeling of internal better. ^_^
Recently I saw the entire movie, and of course thought about how much it stunk, but then I reread the books, and figured those two books aren’t very easy things to turn into a movie, which is all visual and almost nothing mental. Hmm, radio has an advantage against TV and movies, no stupid corny older-self-talking-about-younger-self voiceovers. Firstly, the actor playing Janie didn’t have wild, curly, red-gold hair, which was about half of Janie. ^_~ And Reeve stunk. He’s like … a wimp. ^,^ I don’t know. He isn’t, really. He’s just much less lackluster without the Janie confessing to Reeve scenes.
This kinda reminds me of the Anne books and movies. >.< *can’t believe the stupidity of the movies* I’ve forgotten the differences between the first movie and book, and haven’t seen the second movie, but I know that in the third movie Anne goes to the battlefield in WWI, I forget why, but the whole movie was completely made up out of stupid air.
World War I happened in the eighth book. How does one go from shooting a third movie in a series, and skipping five whole books??? Neither Anne nor Gilbert saw bloody war. Although it lived in their house through newspaper and other reports. *still can’t believe who died in the eighth book, although she expected someone to die*
Another thing, the Face on the Milk Carton movie changed Jodie into a younger sibling. Much younger. Like middle school younger. That’s not allowed! Jodie’s supposed to be the one expecting an automatic sister and best friend, not someone who couldn’t even remotely hurt Janie by pairing up with Stephen instead. Okay, that is extremely not understandable. O.o *shrugs*
Stephen also isn’t supposed to be so good-looking. :b He’s supposed to be someone lanky with big feet which everyone hopes he’ll grow into some day. Also, I somehow felt that the mothers would have been better switched, although I think maybe I’ve been reading the words wrong. But isn’t Mrs. Spring supposed to be more homey, and motherly, housewife, and kind of dowdy? Mrs. Johnson is supposed to be motherly, but with a flair, spends more time on her clothes, has a more HGTV house.
*is now finished*
