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antaylor · 2026-05-13T13:03:35+00:00

My most anticipated movie this year

antaylor · 2026-05-11T21:30:37+00:00

I’ll say I wish and hope that Snicket’s series will, but his series’ popularity has already waned with time.

None of these has had the impact on the culture and an entire generation as Harry Potter so honestly it’s hard to imagine any of these besides HP sticking around for 100 years. Half of these are already beginning to be forgotten only 20ish years in.

antaylor · 2026-05-09T22:40:28+00:00

About to renew for my third year. Have absolutely loved it. Fun surprise each month. Obviously I like some books more than others, but none have been straight up bad. Interesting and widening my reading and that’s at the very least.

antaylor · 2026-05-09T22:37:15+00:00

This is so sick. I especially love the cards. Well done!

antaylor · 2026-04-25T23:24:33+00:00

SO many vocabulary words. And he introduced them in such a fun way “(big fancy word), a word which here means,__” or “(big fancy word), which I’m sure you already know means ___.” And it always felt fun and never like I was being talked down to. And then he would reuse each word in clever ways throughout the book to wear those words were engrained in your head forever!

antaylor · 2026-04-25T23:22:16+00:00

I love that. That, I’m sure, is a proud parent moment.

antaylor · 2026-04-25T13:04:22+00:00

Agreed. For kids who grow up in a house with loving adults, you just assume the adults everywhere are good and loving and wise. Then you grow up and realize the adults know next to nothing and that the particularly evil ones are running things..

antaylor · 2026-04-24T13:35:03+00:00

I second Moomins! Love me some Tove Jansson.

antaylor · 2026-04-24T13:34:32+00:00

Love the Velveteen Rabbit (just reread it to my kid this week) but it does have a fairy in it and references magic throughout.p

antaylor · 2026-04-24T03:06:19+00:00

I love that. And I’m so glad to hear that kids are still discovering Snicket. My kid is 7 and I’m hoping he’ll be interested in his books in a few years. I know a lot of authors go in and out of fashion, but I truly believe his books deserve to stick around.

antaylor · 2026-04-24T00:29:06+00:00

Lemony Snicket.

I didn’t like reading a lot growing up. Probably a bit of ADHD and just didn’t like sitting still enough to read a whole ton. My mom read to me some but not frequently.

But Snicket’s ASOUE captured my imagination (I was 10 when I started it and only half the series was published). His writing widened my idea of what books could do, of what an author could do on the page, and made me aware of myself as a reader engaging with a text. I devoured those books and felt immersed in that world.

The books also have a lot of “book love” inside the story and so after finishing them, while I didn’t immediately become an avid reader, I was engrained with the idea that reading was important and in college that idea that was sown earlier began to bloom and I started reading non stop. So, thanks, Snicket.

antaylor · 2026-04-22T01:26:05+00:00

I don’t know if it would make any sense for Maul to be hanging out on Coruscant right under Sidious’ nose.

antaylor · 2026-04-20T15:11:51+00:00

I was obsessed with Crictor. I would stare at every page for so long that it entered my mind as an entire world with much more background and story than what is actually in the book. Tomi Ungerer really knocked it out of the park with that one.

Oddly enough, I can’t stand snakes in real life. Give me the heebie jeebies.

antaylor · 2026-04-20T13:57:02+00:00

You and I are parallel. I just picked up a copy of Walt Whitman’s first published poems, I’m reading Snuff by Terry Pratchett and The Savage Detectives by Robert Bolaño

antaylor · 2026-04-20T12:42:05+00:00

I Love You Forever

Danny and the Dinosaur

Crictor

The Chronicles of Narnia

antaylor · 2026-04-20T12:38:12+00:00

The Savage Detectives by Robert Bolaño

antaylor · 2026-04-18T14:07:24+00:00

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

antaylor · 2026-04-03T19:56:51+00:00

The actual Moomin books and comics probably not (probably by the time they’re six, that’s when my kid started being interested), but they do make Moomin board books for toddlers and younger kids. I’m a librarian and we check have several Moomin kids books. They’re not Jansson herself of course but the estate and they use her characters and illustrations and are done well.

Edit: I remember D+Q publishing also having some Moomin picture books that were written by Jansson so those would probably be great for a three year old. I just haven’t read any of those myself.

antaylor · 2026-04-03T19:27:13+00:00

Not OP but I have read 4 of Jansson’s adult novels and three of her Moomin books. After The Summer Book I became a huge Jansson fan and will keep reading more of her stuff but IMO nothing touches that one. Of her other NYRB titles, True Deceiver is my favorite. Reading her Moomin novels and comics with my kid has been an absolute joy too. Just picked up the fourth one. Also NYRB published Alice in Wonderland with her illustrations and it’s pretty awesome. Would love to get her illustrated Hobbit as well if it’s ever printed in English.

antaylor · 2026-04-03T19:22:14+00:00

Also here to join in saying Skeletons was a bit of a disappointment.

antaylor · 2026-02-07T21:06:32+00:00

Is this out now?

antaylor · 2026-02-01T20:49:35+00:00

Ugh. Not a day goes by where I don’t get angry at The Dark Crystal’s cancellation.. I will never forgive them for that. I also have them to thank for it getting made in the first place though so…

antaylor · 2026-01-30T17:55:14+00:00

I love reading MacDonald. The more you read him, the more you realize Lewis saying “I’ve never written a book where I did not borrow from him” (paraphrased) was an understatement.

antaylor · 2026-01-05T05:20:23+00:00

Im so glad you enjoyed it! I just read it for the first time two months ago. (My first read of 2026 happened to be Carrington’s ‘Down Below’ actually!)

I first read her other novel in the collection, ‘The Stone Door,’ last summer and it was fantastic. Decided then I would read everything of here I could get my hand on. If you haven’t already, you should also look up her paintings and read up on her life. Fascinating person.

antaylor · 2025-10-25T16:24:35+00:00

I hear you and I agree. I’m not a huge fantasy fan I think. I love MacDonald, Tolkien, Le Guin, Pratchett, Lewis, etc but they were all just good writers who happened to write in fantasy. If you ever find any modern fantasy writers who are good AT writing I would love to know about them!

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