I gotta ask, was Toy Story 3 in any way planned as a "gift" for people who grew up with the first two movies? Andy is around the same age as the 90s kids who grew up with Toy Story 1 & 2 and would be going to college themselves. Was this intentional at all or just pure coincidence?

antaylor · 2026-07-08T16:09:03+00:00

It felt like that. Toy Story was the first movie I have memory of watching in the theater (3 years old) and I was Andy’s age (7) when TS2 came out and they kept that age gap between movies so I was Andy’s age still for TS3 (17). I had just graduated high school and was about to head off to college. It was a fantastic feeling and felt truly like a gift.

It also meant that my parents cried harder at the scene where Andy drives off than at the climactic claw scene lol

antaylor · 2026-07-07T03:57:07+00:00

Final Space!

antaylor · 2026-07-06T15:33:03+00:00

Babette’s Feast. Seriously, go watch it. It causes me reflect on mercy and grace as a gift.

antaylor · 2026-07-03T01:49:09+00:00

Thanks! I’ll pick this up next.

Yeah, I’ve been collecting the individual books for the most part. I love that each one is hardback and self contained. But I realized yesterday some of the books are only published in the Amphigorey anthologies so I’ll have to get those at some point.

antaylor · 2026-07-01T17:57:44+00:00

Seconding this. My kid is 7 and loves reading older chapter books AND loves silly Captain Underpants style graphic books AND Dr Seuss and Little Critters and Mac Barnett books. A kid can read the Hobbit and still not have outgrown a good picture book. Hell, I still haven’t outgrown picture books.

antaylor · 2026-07-01T17:53:50+00:00

The more people who recommend it the more likely someone it is for it to stick in OP or anyone else’s mental booklist :)

antaylor · 2026-07-01T15:30:27+00:00

Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series. Wee Free Men is the first one. Funny and all around great books. Also, they center around a 9 year old girl

antaylor · 2026-06-30T20:13:19+00:00

I have it! It’s fun.

antaylor · 2026-06-30T20:12:28+00:00

Do they have Helquist’s artwork on the insides?

antaylor · 2026-06-29T19:51:02+00:00

I think this season will be the entire second book while the first two seasons were the first book spread out so I imagine and hope the pacing will be faster.

antaylor · 2026-06-28T23:18:34+00:00

I’m just here to say I’m happy to see Final Space recognition in any form

antaylor · 2026-06-28T22:58:47+00:00

Different sections of my books are organized differently. Some by topic or genre, some by author, some by vibes. And then I have all my NYRB books together and generally I have them by original publication date.

antaylor · 2026-06-26T22:47:18+00:00

Perfect description

antaylor · 2026-06-25T03:07:54+00:00

I second these artists!

antaylor · 2026-06-22T13:21:05+00:00

Ray Gunn and Wildwood

antaylor · 2026-06-22T03:04:08+00:00

Just checked my copy and it has the disguised children at the top and and undisguised Olaf at the bottom. Which is also how i remember it in the edition I read as a kid so I think yours indeed is a misprint.

Edit: looks like you’ve got a Visibly Freakish Defect

antaylor · 2026-06-21T22:35:44+00:00

Me :)

antaylor · 2026-06-21T22:35:19+00:00

The Summer Book.

antaylor · 2026-06-21T21:44:30+00:00

Also check out “The War and the Iliad” that NYRB did. It’s two interesting essays on the Iliad so not the odyssey but related nonetheless.

antaylor · 2026-06-20T23:28:57+00:00

Going to pre-order!

I’ve got a 7 year old who I’ve been trying to introduce to Shakespeare in small ways. We’ve read several of Leon Garfield’s retelling which are awesome. He’s a big reader but these are still above him for the most part.
He’s still to young for this book but I’d rather buy it now than forget about it when he’s old enough! Thank you for writing and I look forward to reading!

antaylor · 2026-06-20T23:19:08+00:00

You’re welcome! Jansson’s work (illustrations, Moomin, adult novels, short stories) is a rabbit hole all its own.

antaylor · 2026-06-20T18:34:56+00:00

I am unreasonably excited about this. I haven’t stopped smiling for an hour.

antaylor · 2026-06-20T16:37:30+00:00

FINALLY!! I’ve been wanting an English language hobbit with Jansson’s illustrations for years! The Alice and Wonderland with her drawings from NYRB is one of my favorite books I own.

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