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honeymonsterAt the second library we visited on Tuesday, I picked up a groovy new bookmark. It has really cute cartoon penguins on it, and it says, "Reading is Cool!" I don't know where I got my obsession with bookmarks, but it hasn't faded since elementary school.
On to books. The book I've been thinking about most is an anthology called Lost Classics. It's full of essays about books that had profound effects on the authors' lives, yet can't be found anywhere, or are generally ignored.
I have a book like that. It's The Changeling, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, and while I have been able to find copies of her other books on ebay and in libraries, my book is in no libraries and when it is for sale it costs around fifty dollars. The story concerns a strange girl named Ivy, who declares that she is really the child of fairies, snuck into a crib in the place of the human child who belonged there. I don't remember much of the story, but I do know that I adored it so much that it became one of the books I swiped off the classroom shelf. It disappeared on me, so I guess I got my just desserts.
current words: YELL-Oh Girls!--another essay anthology, this time on being female and asian-american
On to books. The book I've been thinking about most is an anthology called Lost Classics. It's full of essays about books that had profound effects on the authors' lives, yet can't be found anywhere, or are generally ignored.
I have a book like that. It's The Changeling, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, and while I have been able to find copies of her other books on ebay and in libraries, my book is in no libraries and when it is for sale it costs around fifty dollars. The story concerns a strange girl named Ivy, who declares that she is really the child of fairies, snuck into a crib in the place of the human child who belonged there. I don't remember much of the story, but I do know that I adored it so much that it became one of the books I swiped off the classroom shelf. It disappeared on me, so I guess I got my just desserts.
current words: YELL-Oh Girls!--another essay anthology, this time on being female and asian-american
