OH shit yes PIPPI!  How could I forget her?!  God, she's the most awesome thing ever.

I am one of the few people who was bored by American Gods. I loved the concept, and I normally like Gaiman's use of old deities and entities, but it really did not gel for me at all.  It really should have worked for me, and I couldn't figure out what the problem was, and then it came to me: it's a story about…

I always forget exactly how creepy some of the Peter and Wendy interactions are.

Yeah, the fact that Jim's been freed and Tom's making it into one of his adventure games is pretty heinous and jerky. 

@avclub-c30b17b451a2d904d45a4c895dbd4a62:disqus I hope I didn't make it sound like I was trying to justify the racism; the only real "explanation" is that that was a pretty common mindset for the period, so it's not a surprising portrayal, in its historical context. I just meant to explain why I don't think I noticed…

@Scrawler2:disqus Book Tink is really much more of what I think of when I think of pixies or fairies; old skool/old World sprites are whimiscal, often malicious little creatures, and something to be feared and/or treated respectfully. I do like movie Tink, but Book Tink is definitely better.

I read this as "Mothra".  Now that's an awesome wedding.

A couple years ago, a friend gave me A Wrinkle In Time to me as a gift because she couldn't believe I hadn't read it.  I couldn't get into it at all; I'm sure this is partially because I was expecting fantasy and got math instead.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I hope your parents went out and bought you your own copies so you could huddle over them like Gollum.

You know, I thought I had a couple copies of both Alice books, but now I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure I do. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

It's one of those things that had been in my life so long that I never stopped to examine it all that closely.  Then for no reason, it  just struck me that wow, Tom was a privileged little punk.

I think the issue with racism towards those Indians is that a) the book was written by a non-American, and I was b) an extremely imaginative child living in what was considered "the old West" who was already waaaay fascinated by  details of Native America life and reading lots on it. So any "Indians are bad!" was kind…

I had the biggest crush on Encyclopedia Brown, and I don't know why. I don't really like mysteries, never have.

He's still allowed in the Brooklyn Zoo, though; they're less uptight about tiger-licking.

Frances!  Another set of books at my grandmother's house!

Peter Pan -  A copy at my maternal grandmother's house; I'm not sure if it was hers or her kids. If you've never read the book, it is sincerely weirder than the Disney version, and there's also some creepy psychosexual stuff going on there. Obviously I didn't get that when I was a kid, I was just in love with…

My mother still has the boxed set of the Little House books I got for Christmas one year.  I read the ever-living crap out of them and they're falling apart.  I'm with you in that I was fascinated by the descriptions of daily life, all the work they had to do and how they lived without all the modern amenities I was…

@Scrawler2:disqus My grandmother would be so happy to hear it.

(Fie on your Disclaimer. Fie, I say!) It's one of my favourite books to read to a bunch of excitable kids, especially if you've already read it to the same group of kids on previous occasions, and they can roar their terrible roars while you're reading to them.  Also I can still [mostly] quote the whole thing from…

I would say green before red. Red pants are a little much.