*squeak*

[phinnia]

Heavens, has Robert Munsch not made it across the 49th? Wow. (I seem to remember having this conversation with kolys in The Place That Is No More once upon a time.) You know, the guy that wrote the Paper Bag Princess?

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As of tomorrow we've lived here a year. And you know how we're going to end up celebrating?
I'm gonna have to go to the bank and then we have Sean's therapy group (insert ick-face here - the parents at these things creep me out) and then we have a two hour meeting with his various therapists! OH BOY!
Doesn't that sound like FUN?
Actually I left out the part about going to Genie's for lunch ... but hey, I lie for a living. The fact remains that the group will fall in the category of Odious But Necessary. Ugh. At least the meeting's at home. And I'm not blocked anymore! That's good for something!

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Oh well. Done with being fake-excited. Coffee and ickshake and off to the book sale. Woot.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Robert Munsch has definitely made it over here, and "Love You Forever" is one of the creepiest books I know of. If it makes its way in where I teach, I tuck it behind the others so it doesn't accidentally get brought out.

"Paper Bag Princess" is okay, but of the others of his I've read, they seem to be more like books for adults. I don't mind a book for kids also amusing adults, but his books seem to be meant to address the adults, while being okay for kids. I really dislike "Love You Forever. Lots.

"Mama Do You Love Me" is better, if I want that whole "no matter what" theme.

Maybe it's the idea of the mom stalking her adult son that makes me want to flee.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I completely agree with you on that. I love the classic ones: Mortimer, David's Father, I have to go, Johnathan Cleaned Up .... but Love You Forever makes me twitch. It's one of those books that That Type of Parent likes, if you know what I mean. I agree with the creepy.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Although it occurs to me that a lot of personal appeal is the way he /reads/ them, because he reads them well and tends to engage kids while he reads them. I actually used to live not too far from Guelph (where he's from) and he often makes appearances at local public schools and such.

I Never Understood

[nihilistech.livejournal.com]

How a castle could get burned down by a dragon and the only thing left be ...
a PAPER bag

Re: I Never Understood

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

You make a valid point.

[icyblue.livejournal.com]

I love Robert Munsch. One time, when I was about 10, we were visiting my grandma in Shelburne, Ontario, and he came to the Shelburne library to read. It was AWESOME. I shook his hand and everything.

[dawnstar.livejournal.com]

Congrats on one year of less-yicky weather! :) I wish you had a better celebraty day, but at least the lunch part sounds nice.

Walking around Buffalo today made me realize that part of my brain doesn't quite grok the fact that you're not there anymore. I don't know if I can fully explain it, but ... yeah, it was odd.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

This lunch place is fabulous. :-) All organic and mostly veggie. Their vegetarian eggs benedict is divine.
I can see how that would be odd, yeah.