/report: Children's Books

[mklutz]

Guys, we recorded for over an hour this week before scrapping the episode and re-recording on a different topic entirely. If we sound punchy at all it's because it was late in England and in Canada. (Oops?)

But! This week we cover a delightful range of children's and young adult books, which we hope you will enjoy, and we finish up with some book recs for you.

As per usual, you can click here to download the episode.

As usual the iTunes feed will be up later. Since it's a week about children's books we don't actually have any fic recs for you. Go read a book! You can follow us on twitter over here for other updates.


Due to request, a (hopefully mostly complete?) list of the books mentioned:

• Matilda
• A Promise is a Promise
• The Witches
• Little House on the Prairie series
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Secret World of Og
• Dragon Singer & Dragon Song
• Meg Cabot's Mediator/Princess Diaries/1-800-where-are-you books
• Jane Eyre
• 1984
• Catcher in the Rye
• The Last Unicorn
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Fountainhead
• Anything by Antonia Fraser (Frasier? Pru is asleep, so MK is guessing)
• The Egypt Game
• From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• The Giraffe, The Pelly, & Me
• These Happy Golden Years
• Catherine Called Birdie
• Gordon Korman's MacDonald Hall books
• Agatha Christie's Poirot; Agatha Christie's Marple
• The Paper Bag Princess
• Stardust of Yesterday
• Freedom's Landing
• Redwall (the series)
• The Hundred Secret Senses
• Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
• Robert Fagles translation of The Odyssey

Comments

[youkosiren.livejournal.com]

While I was listening, I kept thinking 'ooh, I hope they talk about Gordon Korman because those books cracked me up so much as a kid' and then...

Actually, ever since I moved into fandoms that involve actual people (whether they're portraying characters or are the objects of fangirling themselves), I experience occasional stabs of fangirl guilt. I now feel awkward around my coworker who looks like Chris Pine because I've read so many terrible fics about reboot Kirk, but I'd rather read Trek fic than feel comfortable around my coworkers, go figure. That, actually, is probably what I'm going to be doing at work when STBB starts posting this week.

I adored Anne McCaffrey books when I was younger (dragons! psychic powers!), but I'm not sure if I could stand to read any of her books now. I am strangely intrigued by this ghost time travel amnesia romance novel though, so I hope you'll post a list of the books discussed 8D

[mklutz]

I think I got them all! Links to books added above.

Man, when shitty things happen at work, or when it's a rare slow time that is the time I read a lot of fic at my desk while pretending to check my work email. I didn't know STBB was starting up soon, though, so that's exciting.

Psychic dragons and powers! What's not to love? Lynn Kurland (who wrote the amnesia time travel ghost romance) is pretty prolific, so you might want to find her in the romance section of your local store and read the backs of her books until you find something that jumps out at you. There is a lot of ghosts/amnesia/time travel/historical action in her books.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, yay, thanks for the links~

Yes! I think it might start posting the 15th or so. This is the beauty about having my ipod - I can set it up and read fic without being obvious at all! Except sometimes it's painful to keep all the feelings inside.

I am always on the lookout for more dragon fantasy novels! I even read one about metal dragons a while ago. It really is funny though how things you read or watch as a kid leave their impression on you - somehow I impressed on actors in ancient Chinese martial artist dramas when young and it's never gone away 8|;

[mklutz]

That's how they get you! I watched a lot of Rupert and read a lot of fantasy novels and, late at night, stayed up to watch chinese movies subtitled on OMNI.