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May. 1st, 2008

  • 5:27 PM
books
Next week is going to be busy...Monday and Wednesday nights, I have CE classes to attend. Thursday is dinner at Wa with the pharmacy crew, to say goodbye to K. Friday and Saturday night, Tony is in a musical at West. Friday night is ALSO the Breeders at the Bottleneck.

The Oncology nurses are pushing me to get more involved. I don't mind this at all, as the more I understand about what and why we're treating, the more likely I am to catch an error.

I am currently plowing my way through all of the John Bellairs books. Gothic horror novels for middle school kids, with illustrations by Ed Gorey. Still great, twenty years later.

K is very happy with American Gods (one of her goodbye gifts from me), and is finding it to be a real page-turner. That is awesome. Neil Gaiman, I scored you another fan.

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[info]brimers_toy wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 02:53 am (UTC)
Bellairs and Gorey and Gaiman, Oh My!
I put his books on my syllabus for the independent study I'm doing next fall (but really I'm doing it this summer): "Elements of the Gothic in Children's Literature." Unfortunately, there are too many books on my syllabus for the class, and the Graduate Advisory Committee told me I have to cut at LEAST 10-15 novels off my list. My response: "Are you f*ing kidding me?? I already cut 15 novels off the list before I presented to you!!"

There is a ridiculously large amount of gothic children's literature spanning the centuries...

(Also, both _Coraline_ and _The Wolves in the Walls_ are on my course syllabus. I, too, heart Neil Gaiman.)

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[info]the_lucky_nun wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 10:53 am (UTC)
Re: Bellairs and Gorey and Gaiman, Oh My!
Peggy Bacon and Zylpha Keatly Snyder wrote some pretty scary books, too, full of demon-possessed cats, and kids living in haunted houses.
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