> -----Original Message----- > From: Lady Qryz [mailto:ladyqryz at hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:53 AM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Intro and ummmm...stuff > > > Hail and well met! > > Having now perused all 8642 messages posted in the month of > November, I'll > say the following: > > 1) I agree with most recommendations for beginning books, and > would include > Jane Langton's _The Swing in the Summerhouse_ and _The Diamond in the > Window_. The latter has Ralph Waldo Emerson running all > through it! Also > Alan Garner (Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor). Eager, > Nesbit, LeGuin, > L'Engle and yes, Dahl, are all great young adult books. > Whatever happens, > do NOT allow children to read Dahl's adult work, which is > wicked and quite > funny and they absolutely don't deserve *weg*. > > My dad says I was born reading - I finished all LoTR before I > was 8, got > obsessed with vampires when I was 10 (thus my first training as a > researcher) and read _The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_ > TWICE in the > summer of my 6th grade year because yes, I was really bored. > As Steve says, > its not what we read that sets us apart, its that we read at all. > > 2) Liver is good, but only in a nice pate. > > 3) The One True Stuffing is Mrs. Cubbisons, with a pinch of > Pepperidge Farm > thrown in. The Only Acceptable Additions are celery and > water chestnuts. > After 15 years, the family still argues about the celery. > > 4) I like to read in total silence so nothing interferes > with the movie in > my head. > > 5) As Queen of the Universe and Goddess (Acting), who am I > to deny the > possibility of other deities? > > Do carry on. > > Qryz Hm. No mention made of reply to preferences, which had to have formed a significant portion of November's messages! And, no mention made of Dragaera. But that's not unusual in most of the messages lately. Rachel