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I think we had a tearoom or something a while back kinda like this, but it appears to have died. IN this cafe we will eat food and talk about books. I will make the basic cafe, but feel free to add any furniture you like. The cafe is a medium sized room, with one corner that has four tables with blue tiled tops. The other corner has couches and bean bag chairs, plus a round coffee table made of wood. In the front of the room is a countertop at which you may sit at. I call a beanbag chair. Also, the menus are blank so that we may write down what we want. *Orders a cinnamon bun and hot cocoa*
I found that first book of "The Mysterious Benedict Society" to be wonderful. Sadly, I thought he failed to recapture the charm and adventure of the first book when writing the others. They were just rambling, boring efforts.
submitted by Ann, age 10, A Public Place
(April 20, 2010 - 7:08 am)
(April 20, 2010 - 7:08 am)
I see, I should look at those next time I go to the Library. ~Takes a sip from the Mocha: Ouch! That's hot!~
(April 25, 2010 - 8:56 am)
*sits down on sofa* I love the MBS. My favorite character was Constance. I love PJ and HP. I also like the Septimus Heap books. I am currently reading Castle in the Air.
(April 24, 2010 - 2:07 pm)
The Septimus Heap books are great! Marcia Overstrand is awesome.
Diana Wynne Jones is a wonderful author, but I still haven't read Howl's Moving Castle yet, and I need to before I read Castle In The Air. I'm going to read 8 Days of Luke soon.
(April 25, 2010 - 4:06 pm)
*Gives tip to waiter* What is the Septimus Heap series about?
(April 25, 2010 - 7:35 pm)
*sips Mocha* I am currently reading the Diamond of Darkhold. It is a bit lower than my expectations, but then again, I'm not really into those type of books anymore. I am currently mad at Rick Riordan for putting a cliff hanger at the end of Battle of the Labyrinth and I'm mad at Disney for putting a cliff hanger ending the preview of the Last Olympian at the end of BotL. (did I mention that Disney publishes PJ?) so I'm not going to waste time and put the Last Olympian on hold since so many have already done so and I'll be like what? 100? Anyways, has anyone read the 39 Clues series? I'm currently trying to go to Chapters whenever possible and read the Emperor's Code. (yes I cheat like that) But I always for get what page I'm on. And 39C is starting to make me upset because I like PJ better and 39C isn't so good in comparison. (even though Rick Riordan and MP HADDIX! are authorse of the series) Waiter, may I please have a refill?
(April 25, 2010 - 8:23 pm)
What does anybuggy think about The Call of the Wild? I'm thinking about reading it, but I don't know. Sometimes I have trouble reading classics. ~Sips mocha: Waiter, may I have a creme cheese bagel? Thank you~
(April 26, 2010 - 11:59 am)
I've been thinking about reading that book, too! What a coincidence!
Wait, never mind. I just realized that I'll have to read it for school in 8th grade anyway, so there's no point. Then again, what about White Fang? I read the GIC version. It was horrible, of course. However, the plot was good, which means that the original is probably excellent. GIC has a way of ruining everything...
The first Septimus Heap book is about... Well, there's this... Oh, forget it. I can't say anything without giving away spoilers. Either way, they're about a... boy... named Septimus Heap and a... girl... named Jenna. In the beginning, you see, not much is known about them, so I can't say much. Anyway, well... Maybe you should just look at some reviews or something, because I'm having too much difficulty.
(April 26, 2010 - 7:28 pm)
_munches on bagel_ I wonder why nobuggy is posting. I do love a good chat, but I may get up and leave if things don't pick up a little.
What are you reading now, Charlotte? Anything you'd recommend to a friend? I'll have a capuccino, please.
Old Cricket
(April 28, 2010 - 1:08 pm)
*sits down on the other side of Coyotegirl76* *orders PB&J and milk* OK, so...
Has anybody read Jean Craighead George's books? (I call her JCG, by the way.) I have read Julie of the Wolves, Julie, Julie's Wolf Pack (*sighs* I love those books), My Side of the Mountain, On The Far Side of the Mountain, and Frightful's Mountain (*sighs* I love those too). I am currently reading Charlie's Raven, another of her books. So far so good!
Re: GoG'H: I just finished that series! Looooooved it! Although some of the deaths were...disturbing, to say the least.
Does anybody else like books about horses? I do. I am reading four series about horse. Thouroughbred, The Black Stallion, Heartland, and The Phantom Stallion. If any of you have read these series-es, please let me know!
Re: Call of the Wild: I read that! It was pretty good, although a little hard to understand. Classics often are, but I find that they boost your brain and make you think harder than some other books; although HP, GoG'H, etc. are all quite good, there is nothing like old-fashioned linguistics to boost your IQ.
Andy P. C. says bowt. Oh yeah, that reminds me...what was that Andy P. C. post all about? According to Andy, it wasn't him.
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
(April 29, 2010 - 9:48 pm)
I have just finished the second book of the immortals series, I need to go back to the library. Tamora Pierce is an excellent author, but I'm not sure the emotions come out quite as clear and some of her characters are a little weak, but not much. But the plot was excellent and the story line kept moving. For now I'm reading a school book: Mary, Bloody Mary I don't enjoy biographies and that kind of thing. Reading Leonardo da Vinci was like trudging through a desert, ugh.
(April 30, 2010 - 7:19 am)
*Sits on couch with table and orders cinnamon bun and vanilla smoothie* *looks at created book slot and types in 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'* *it comes out* *starts reading the dissapearing glass* *laughs*
(April 30, 2010 - 5:55 pm)
Cool, a cafe place!! I'll get a iced blended mocha and... a cinnabun. *sits at table* Has anyone ever read the Percy Jackson series?? I love love love love it!!!!!!!!!! I hear that their's gonna be a new mythological series!! It's about Egyptian mythology is sounds so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so cool!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry if I'm soverreacting....
(April 30, 2010 - 7:32 pm)
I've read (and loved) all of the JCG books you mentioned, except for Charlie's Raven and Frightful's Mountain. I also found a short nonfiction article by her called Koko: Smart Signing Gorilla in my literature textbook, and I couldn't resist reading that, too, because anything by her was bound to be great, and it was intriguing, even though I still prefer fiction for the most part. Oh, and I also read The Talking Earth, which was very good, even though I don't agree that we're the only life forms in the entire universe.
I like horse books, too, and I think I may have read The Black Stallion, but if so it was so long ago I've forgotten. All the horse books by Marguerite Henry are good, too, although Album of Horses (nonfiction) is a bit out of date. More than a bit, really. It was written a long time ago. But I don't know if that's even sold anymore. My copy was my mom's when she was a girl, and it may be one of the last. Or maybe it is still sold, along with many of her other books that were written at about the same time. King of the Wind, for example. *shrugs*
I recently read Eight Days of Luke by DWJ, and I'm beginning to wonder if JKR might have copied off of it slightly. Or at least, she may have read it years before she wrote HP (8DoL was written in '75), forgotten about it, but still had bits of memory lingering in her mind thatshe mistook for her own ideas. Either way, their beginnings are quite similar. A boy lives with his aunt, uncle, and male cousin, whose attitudes towards him are about the same. The cousin is about the same height as the main character, but much less thin. The aunt is thinner than the uncle and cousin. The MC has a moment when he goes into a secluded, near-invisible spot outside (beside the compost heap or in the flower bed) and learns the news.And so on, and so on. I'd finish, but that may take a while, and I'd end up posting spoilers.
Speaking of copying, The Sea of Trolls and A Series of Unfortunate Events. They both contain a man named Olaf with only 1 eyebrow, and I wondered if the former copied the latter. At first, I thought that there may have been a real person or someone in mythology, but then I looked it up. I think found the 2 main inspirations for the Olaf in TSoT, but they had 2 eyebrows each. It's just odd...
ASBPVNC stands for Andy (his first name) SpamBoy (his nickname) Percy (his first middle name) Vick (his 2nd middle name) Norman (what Koffee calls him; this may be another middle name) Captcha (his last name). I would've included ZOR, but that's female, and it would be confusing to have that with SpamBoy)...
(May 1, 2010 - 10:38 am)
I loved TSOT! It needs to be made into a movie!
(May 2, 2010 - 2:56 pm)
The Looking Glass Wars.
Anyone interested in wat they're about can Google them and go to its website.
I just learned there that there'll be a movie! Yay! And a theme park! Yay! I don't know when or where, though. I just know that there are people here wo also read it, and thought I should tell them.
(May 2, 2010 - 9:19 pm)