Bruce, #126, re bagels: What's your opinion of Noah's on NW 23rd?
#97: cf. Harry Turtledove's story "Hindsight."
The schoolbuses I rode in (early to mid-90s) had seatbelts but they were almost universally disregarded and ISTR that no one in authority made a big deal out of the matter.
Scott, you might want to reread some of those old posts on self-publishing, POD, and PA. Last time I checked, the proprietors of Making Light et al. had no problem whatsoever with publishers, small or large, that follow Yog's Law (with some unusual exceptions like academic publishing, etc). People talk about PA because it's a huge and shameless operation whose business model is built around breaking Yog's Law, and because _they're still suckering people_. Period. It's not a straw man if it really is a problem. (That your definition of "New York publishing insider" seems to include anyone who's ever sold a book to a traditional publishing house, like James MacDonald or Mike Ford, is also a mite curious, though I daresay they can take care of themselves.) Saying that people like Patrick and Teresa imply by omission that PA is the only way to self-publish is plainly false, based on the archives of this blog alone.
There are more things under heaven and earth, Serge... :)
Wasn't the thing with the scanner more complicated than that? ISTR that he was looking at some kind of unusual, more advanced/complicated scanner, which is what he was impressed by.
HP: ObFantasy -- the music connected with the High Magic in the Dark is Rising.
Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet(?) respectively.
Greg -- too difficult. :)
Sundre -- The first excerpt reminded me of the Maltese Falcon; not so sure after the second one, though.
Greg Ioannou -- The first one is Kafka.
I note that the front page of today's NY Sun has a graphic that looks a heck of a lot like the one that touched off this thread (with accompanying article and inside editorial). I'm sure that's _purely_ coincidental...
Re: YAs, Gordon Korman's Macdonald Hall books (hysterically funny Canadian boarding school stories); they're out of print here, but Amazon.ca has them all.
Also, Daniel Hayes, _The Trouble With Lemons_ and sequels.
If she's into mysteries, ISTR Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael mysteries as being good from when I was that age.
Rifles for Watie (Harold Keith); _loved_ this one when I was a kid, though I don't know how well it's held up.
The Gammage Cup (Carol Kendall)
Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Sign of the Beaver, and the Bronze Bow
Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
I can't believe nobody's mentioned From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg) yet. I haven't read nearly as much Konigsburg as I ought, but The View From Saturday is lovely.
Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
As someone else upthread said, you could do worse then just go through the Newbery Medal/Honor List.
Sure looks like it from here...unless there's one Steve going by miltonthales and one Steve going by Linkmeister. :)
So does that mean that the arms are being held as hostages for comments?
Does it count as specious choice if they take similar positions because that's what most people believe in and support?
Doesn't the Leicester/Lester thing come from the original English pronunciation of the word?
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