Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[LMNO]

Have you tried the Moomin series?  I recall enjoying them.

Also, you really can't go wrong with Roald Dahl.

And I seem to remember with fondness A Cricket in Times Square.

[Freeky]

Ooo, ooo!  Has she read anything by Meredith Ann Pierce?  Those are VERY kid friendly, although maybe not the Dark Angel trilogy, I think it might get a little suggestive or really dark in places, but the Firebringer trilogy was a good one. Then again, maybe not, because some of the supporting characters die.

Why not the third Harry Potter one?  The series doesn't get serious until book four.

The discworld series, too.  The Rincewind books would especially appeal to her right now, especially since everything always turns out okay. 

Ummmmm....

Tamora Pierce does good stuff, too. Song of the Lioness is the one I would reccommend over the others, The Immortals quarter I would maybe hold off on for a year or two.

However, you might want to read through them yourself first, because I don't know what is normal for 7yo fragility...

[Cainad (dec.)]

SHEL SILVERSTEIN OR GTFO

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

SHEL SILVERSTEIN OR GTFO

She has the Giving Tree, we need to get some of the poetry collections.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

[Placid Dingo]

paul Jennings too.

[EK WAFFLR]

Now reading: The History of Bestiality by Jens Bjørneboe.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Now reading: The History of Bestiality by Jens Bjørneboe.

Ooooh, I looked it up and that sounds interesting!

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Now reading: The History of Bestiality by Jens Bjørneboe.

BRB learning Norwegian.

[EK WAFFLR]

Now reading: The History of Bestiality by Jens Bjørneboe.

BRB learning Norwegian.

All three books in the trilogy is listed under the Frequently Bought Together part here. In English. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

A whole books worth? I didnt know peoples indiscretions with other species were common enough to be that well documented.

Though i do remember in my american lit class we came across an account of someone in massachusetts bay colony getting caught and making a rather.... Long list of his confession before being executed.

[EK WAFFLR]

A whole books worth? I didnt know peoples indiscretions with other species were common enough to be that well documented.

Though i do remember in my american lit class we came across an account of someone in massachusetts bay colony getting caught and making a rather.... Long list of his confession before being executed.

It's a trilogy, and Bestiality isn't about sheepshagging, actually.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Ill have to look up the trilogy later then

[Juana]

BAAAAA! still means no.


Re-reading Men At Arms.

Ooo, ooo!  Has she read anything by Meredith Ann Pierce?  Those are VERY kid friendly, although maybe not the Dark Angel trilogy, I think it might get a little suggestive or really dark in places, but the Firebringer trilogy was a good one. Then again, maybe not, because some of the supporting characters die.

Why not the third Harry Potter one?  The series doesn't get serious until book four.

The discworld series, too.  The Rincewind books would especially appeal to her right now, especially since everything always turns out okay. 

Ummmmm....

Tamora Pierce does good stuff, too. Song of the Lioness is the one I would reccommend over the others, The Immortals quarter I would maybe hold off on for a year or two.

However, you might want to read through them yourself first, because I don't know what is normal for 7yo fragility...

Pratchett's got a couple kid's series - the Wintersmith books and a couple others. I've heard good things about them.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Ill have to look up the trilogy later then

The first novel in the acclaimed ""History of Bestiality"" trilogy. Living high in the Alps in a German principality, our narrator tells us he's dutifully fulfilling his obligations as a Servant of Justice and acting as a daily witness to injustice masquerading as a court of law. One day he notices that the judge is much too engrossed in looking at pornographic photographs showing various other pillars of the town engaged in a variety of sexual activities with minors. The incident propels him on a mental journey back through his life: black-humor fantasies and suicidal drinking binges; the Roman catacombs, warm summer nights in Brooklyn; brothels in Stockholm, his childhood in Norway, and wanderings in Germany. But aside from court records he has been keeping his own long and detailed account of man's cruelty to man in a massive twelve-volume study he calls his History of Bestiality. Acknowledging his Germanic past, the narrator realizes that all his attempts to perceive order in life lead only to his acceptance of the chaos of life. We see him striving to live uncoerced by power, unpersuaded by friends, to take for himself the liberty of stating his critique in order to live in his own moment of truth, to stand ""far out at the edge of the abyss."" ""Harshly comic and richly disturbing fiction."" Kirkus Reviews

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Hmm. My interest is piqued.