librarianpirate: fishy: beckynotrebecca:
Quite possibly one of the best books of all time.
information addict
"The best thing on the internet"- Purple Primate
elsewhere:
books for fifteen-year-olds
my neuroses, let me show you them
where everybody knows my name
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Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity… Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.
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Andrew Futral (via allisonweiss) (via kittyforeman) (via secretary) (via toocutebyhalf) (via brightlywound) (via mynoisyheart) (via whittakers) (via thirtyrockefeller) (via salpeters) (via captainkirk) (via ifeelweird) (via lucaisstaringtothesun) (via tiiinahoff) (via twofish)
heh.
My books are made for un-cool people; that is to say they’re for folks who are willing to be silly, absurd, or just plain weird. Turns out that most kids are joyously un-cool while many adults fear un-coolness. So, my books are put on the kid’s shelves where they can be enjoyed un-self-consciously by children, the occasional goofy grown-up, and their ilk. Especially their ilk.
A Children's Classic, A 9-Year-Old-Boy And a Fateful Bequest - For Albert Clarke, the Rise Of 'Goodnight Moon' Is No Storybook Romance - Broken Homes, Broken Noses"
librarianpirate: vindicatedcommunications: wooliebear: librarianpirate:
I find this heartbreaking. Margaret Wise Brown (who wrote Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, among others) left her royalties to the 9 year old son of her next door neighbor. This article (written in 2000) is the story of how that affected him.
Goodness, I just want to give him a hug and the number of both a good therapist and a good accountant.
I feel really bad for his kids.
The Long Winter : Cold Comfort; Or, In Which I Don't Even Try To Fight The Metaphor
Fine Lines does Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Long Winter as a metaphor for this year’s economic collapse. It works surprisingly well!
Was there anything he had never been asked? He paused for a few moments and answered, “Well, that I’m gay.”
“I just didn’t think it was anybody’s business,” Mr. Sendak added. He lived with Eugene Glynn, a psychoanalyst, for 50 years before Dr. Glynn’s death in May 2007. He never told his parents: “All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.”
