My Friend is Sad

by Mo Willems.

The love I have for this book cannot be conveyed in words.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8: The Long Way Home, Parts 2 and 3

I need to read each of these several more times.

Hi, Warren! I liked your surprise appearance better in American Dreamz.

Ramona is my hero

In preparation for a discussion of the character of Ramona Quimby with RSL, I brushed up on my Beverly Cleary. Ramona was my favorite when I was a little girl, and my mom kept most of my now collapsing paperbacks. I completed, and contemplated, the following:

Beezus and Ramona
Ramona the Pest
Ramona and her Father
Ramona and her Mother

All The Pretty Horses

By Cormac McCarthy.

Although I readily acknowledge that this book is much better written than the only other Western I've read, I still liked The Pumpkin Rollers better.

However, I'm very appreciative of McCarthy's sparse prose.

Microserfs

I have read this book by Douglas Coupland many many times. This time, I tried to read it as though for the first time, knowing that RSL was doing just this.

I still love it.

But I noticed, I think for the first time, that Daniel's last name shifts periodically from "Underwood" to "Underhill."

Oh my goodness, that annoys me. If I'd noticed it on the first read, I never would have read it again.

Now it's on to All the Pretty Horses. My copy from the library has Matt Damon on the cover. HOTT!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8: The Long Way Home, Part 1

I liked the jump forward in time as mentioned already by the Rock Star Librarian. The televised seasons did this too - each new season began with actual time having passed over the summer hiatus. With this in mind, I suppose we are to assume that several years have passed in order to get us where we are when the story begins.

This would make sense considering there needed to be time to rally all slayers, and orchestrate the whole intense operation they've got going on here. And for Dawn to grow to ginormous proportions (???). I dislike Dawn even in comic book form.

Is Amy going to be our supervillian? Amy and her unidentified "boyfriend?" I am racking my brain trying to remember how Amy and Buffy left things. I will have to rewatch some episodes to get caught up.

My entry into Season 8 is so preliminary after this reading, that I don't feel like I can fully develop an opinion yet. I am anxiously checking my mailbox today in hopes that 2 and 3 will arrive.

The Chili Queen

I actually read this quite a while ago, and I'm just now getting around to posting. However, now that I am out of school there will be much more reading of, and thus more posting about books, including book discussions with The Rock Star Librarian.