what books did you just buy?
I totally wore that as a kid, and LOVED it. Definitely not in that type of fabric though..
That skirt was part of my uniform when I briefly attended a school that required that type of thing. I didn't mind at the time but I was like 8. I also wore this, willingly, even outside of school.
Yesterday I ordered The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins and Habibi by Craig Thompson.
I remember wearing baby doll dresses over jeans when I was sixteenish.
I bought Cat's Cradle and also Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman. I want to buy There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. There's always a book I want to buy.
According to Lib the 90's are classics now though, so...
I own shorts like that. They're not quite as short as those ones, but I wear the hell out of them in summer.
But then again, I love 90s fashion.
Except this:
Is that a man or woman model? It's hard to tell.
The ankle looks femme.
Picked up a nice publishing of a couple Darwin books:
These Everyman's Library editions really do it for me.
"Undaunted, I knew the game was mine to win. Just like in life, all of my successes depend on me. I'm the man who has the ball, I'm the man who can throw it faster than fuck. So that is why I am better than everyone in the world. Kiss my ass and suck my dick. Everyone."
Holy mackrel! I just held that book on Friday. The print was too small, so I decided to wait and look for a larger print version.
Got this instead.
Tells why certain classic books have their titles.
For instance,
For instance WHAT?????
Don't leave us hanging! Cruel.
Okay, you got me laughing before 5am out loud. That's a first.
Must have started doing something else, and posted without checking.
For instance,...
Upon documenting certain facts and correlation with author's life, there is the Winnie-the-Pooh theory.
Winnie-the-Pooh was a real bear, who was a mascot in the British army. He was named after a Canadian town of Winnipeg, by his owner, a British soldier. He was donated to a British zoo. And the author of Pooh, A. Milne, took his son to the zoo at the time of Winnie being a resident of said zoo. Gary Dexter talks about a picture of Milne's son feeding Winnie a baby bottle of milk.
However, the Pooh name is referring to a swan Milne's son used to feed. So Winnie-the-Pooh maybe some sort of mish mash of the two creatures.
Hope I got all that right. My book is in the car, and I'm not going out there to reference right now.
Then there is Catch 22, Cinderella, Plato's Republic, Clockwork Orange, E. E. Cumming's The Waste Land, and a bunch of others. He talks about the reason of the titles of 50 books in all.
Wait, I got that backwards. The Waste Land was by T. S. Eliot. Edited until it was only beautiful bones of it's former self, by Ezra Pound.
Why did I say Cummings? Eh. Well, shit.
That Winnie the Pooh origin story is much nicer than what some jerk in 2nd grade told me was the true pronunciation and meaning of the name.
Wiener the Poop.
I still remember because it ruined a grand film for me forever and he pointed at his crotch and I had to double check with my parents later to make sure that that was where the "wiener" was contained.
When I met a German girl she pronounced it Vinnie-Poo.
Ahahaha!
Hahaha!
Winnie-the-Pooh was a real bear, who was a mascot in the British army. He was named after a Canadian town of Winnipeg, by his owner, a British soldier. He was donated to a British zoo. And the author of Pooh, A. Milne, took his son to the zoo at the time of Winnie being a resident of said zoo. Gary Dexter talks about a picture of Milne's son feeding Winnie a baby bottle of milk.
However, the Pooh name is referring to a swan Milne's son used to feed. So Winnie-the-Pooh maybe some sort of mish mash of the two creatures.
Don't know why one would have to correlate with AA Milne's life; this is pretty much exactly how Christopher Milne explained it.
Clarification. Pooh was what Christopher Milne called the swan. When Christopher named his teddy bear Pooh, after the bear he had met at the zoo, his father pointed out that Pooh was the swan's name. Christopher Robin explained, exasperatedly, "But this is Winnie ther (sic) Pooh." So, it makes perfect sense.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I still haven't read the two last books of the series.
It's a series of two, so...
This is why we can't have nice things.
No, it isn't. When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six are books 3 and 4.
They are not Winnie the Pooh books.
Those are poems written for Christopher before the Pooh stories.
This is why we can't have nice things.
But wasn't Pooh among the characters or something?
Pooh is not in those books.
The only recurring "character" is Christopher Robin Milne.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Great, so Goodreads sucks now. Anyway, I haven't read those and I want to.
Goodreads only sucks because, like Wikipedia, any moron can edit it.
This is why we can't have nice things.
But, yeah, read them.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Whenever I find them, I will.
My cats full name is Winnie the Pooh.
Zachariah named her. This was back when he wanted to change his name to Christopher Robin and then became the happiest boy in the world upon being told Christopher was already in his name, but he mis-heard and thought it was Christopher Robin and thought we were the coolest parents any four year old boy ever had. I couldn't correct him, not when all his dreams just came true in that moment.
Completely off topic of the actual books and what not. Sorry.
I just like telling people my cat is Winnie the Pooh.
If I could somehow find a universe in which it's okay to be called Snow White, I'd change my name.
I used to have them, but I gave them away because it was a crazy stalker girl that gave them to me.
Our first cat was called Jacqueline, based on a French writer who wrote a really beautiful novel, a cloak and dagger love story called Divine Zephyrine. It must have been one of the first novels I've read, and I was 8 or 9. Then the cat got cancer 6 years ago and I got to see her put down.
Zach still adds the Robin in his name at least half of the time if he is asked his full name.
That story ended horribly!
Haha, yeah, I suck at expressing myself today.
Winnie-the-Pooh was a real bear, who was a mascot in the British army. He was named after a Canadian town of Winnipeg, by his owner, a British soldier. He was donated to a British zoo. And the author of Pooh, A. Milne, took his son to the zoo at the time of Winnie being a resident of said zoo. Gary Dexter talks about a picture of Milne's son feeding Winnie a baby bottle of milk.
However, the Pooh name is referring to a swan Milne's son used to feed. So Winnie-the-Pooh maybe some sort of mish mash of the two creatures.
Don't know why one would have to correlate with AA Milne's life; this is pretty much exactly how Christopher Milne explained it.
Clarification. Pooh was what Christopher Milne called the swan. When Christopher named his teddy bear Pooh, after the bear he had met at the zoo, his father pointed out that Pooh was the swan's name. Christopher Robin explained, exasperatedly, "But this is Winnie ther (sic) Pooh." So, it makes perfect sense.
That's what I said. And the bear's existence at the same time and locale, was to correlate, where he got the name.
You are completely right.
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.
I hope it's better than the last few book club books I've read.
PS I loved Now We Are Six as a child! 
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Graham-Smith
Confessions of a D list Supervillain by Jim Bernheimer
Machine Man by Max Barry
A book shopping binge this month :
There's a Return of The Thin Man?!!! 
It's a collection of all the Thin Man stuff that Dashiell Hammett after the novel, consisting of two screen stories (the format is between novella and screenplay) and the first eight pages of a sequel project.
Looking forward to reading it, but what I am getting impatient about is the collected Hammett nonfiction titled Crime Wave, which has been on hold for about two years.
My latest gatherings after using gift cards, searching through thrift stores, and ordering from Amazon.
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
Portnoy's Complaint! W00t!
This is why we can't have nice things.
I wanted to like your photo Chenoa. Facebook is evil sometimes.
I approve of all those books.
Hey Chenoa, weirdly I have that book Death's Acre, the boyfriend got it for me but I don't know why. I wonder if it's good?
I kind of want the Invisible Monsters remix. I don't even know what it is and I'm not the biggest fan of the cover... but I still want it.
I read Out of the Dust last year to help my friend's little sister with her homework. It was like getting punched in the face with sadness. Repeatedly. Fuck that book. I probably water damaged it with my tears.
Holy shit I only just noticed that Angel Falls is there! I need to buy it, good old MonkeyMike!
Those Roth books will be my first and I'm excited. Also, I felt it only necessary that I get the Invisible Monsters remix because it was my first Palahniuk book and still my favorite. I've heard about Out of the Dust. I'll probably soak it in tears too, being more emotional than normal lately, but I enjoy a good cry while reading occasionally. And hells yes MonkeyMike! I read a few pages last night and already love his style. I figured I would, since he and I love the same influences and all.
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
David Sedaris
That is a swell collection.
You have great taste, Chenoa.
Oh god, skirts over trousers! I hated that, too. Although to be honest I did wear it a few times back in the 7th grade.