#daniel pinkwater

[neil-gaiman]

The book I'm reading, Crazy In Poughkeepsie, has a quote from you on the cover! Have you ever been to the real life Poughkeepsie? We've got a cool bridge.

I have. (In fact I tore my meniscus at the beginning of October running for a train in Poughkeepsie.)

[agblend13]

Deep in the Lookyloo Forest dwells the rarest of confections, a treat for the eyes and the senses. The strange... the wonderful... the night blooming... banana split. 🍌

A tiny slice of a major Wood Bot adventure! I was having a really nice time re-reading '4 Fantastic Novels' by Daniel Pinkwater, which I hadn't picked up since I was a kid. At the end of 'Borgel', on a small island on the outskirts of Hell, young Melvin and his dimension hopping uncle get to meet god... also known as The Great Popsicle, a being of pure goodness and light that is also literally a little orange popsicle dancing beautifully through the fields. It's so funny and charming and I was ready to paint Wood Bot observing The Great Popsicle itself, but ultimately decided it would be too small to make an impact here. It did however lead to the discovery of the night blooming banana split, which I would imagine carries a small piece of The Great Popsicle in its spirit.

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[bracketsoffear]

Bunny (Mona Awad) "Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination."

Young Adult Novel (Daniel Pinkwater) "The Wild Dada Ducks members cause all sorts of mischief around their junior high school, but although the boys are not bad, they like to pretend that they are true dadaists with unintentional and irrational behavior. This story centers around their ongoing story of Kevin Shapiro, a character they invented to explore nihilism and tragedy. When they discover that a student actually named Kevin Shapiro attends their school, they make it their mission to make him popular and succeed beyond their wildest dreams as Kevin becomes a dictator."

[valentinsylve]

Tagged by @bloodripelives, which of my 5 favorite characters do you like best? I'm leaving out fandom favorites for obvious reasons :)

[yekokataa]

the post about wayside school reminded me that i've been meaning to make a post about my other favorite absurdist children's author, daniel pinkwater. i recently revisited two of my favorite books of his, borgel and alan mendelsohn, the boy from mars, and they really held up. he has a number of audiobooks on his site that you can download completely free. his voice acting as borgel, a mysterious distant uncle from a never-named 'old country' (which might be somewhere in eastern europe, but might also be another planet) is particularly delightful.

playing kentucky route zero, of all things, was what made me want to re-read borgel. it's about a road trip through 'time, space, and the other' which looks like a long highway through dark nothingness, punctuated by stops at root beer stands owned by blob-shaped aliens, friendly diners, and a roadside attraction which is a replica of a giant popsicle. at some point there's a metaphor about an everything bagel that is highly reminiscent of everything everywhere all at once. (this book came out in 1990 by the way) our characters then embark on a quest to find the living, breathing, dancing giant popsicle. the popsicle is god. this is a 10/10 book and you should really go read it.

[theahole]

New listings in my used book store!

Worked really hard and put up 61 listings in my used book etsy. I already sold one, which will just about cover the fees. Here are some highlights:

Official published BtVS fanfic!

Plus lots more! You can find these here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/talesresold Please always read the description to know what you're buying. Thank you!

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

[scattershotsilly]

cute author bio

[laselvadeleones]

La Selva de Leones, XXVIII. Bear in Love

El león patatín desempolva su pronunciación de Inglés para este libro “con dibujos y letra” que trata de un oso que se va encontrando zanahorias en una roca al lado de su cueva… Las zanahoras se las lleva un personaje misterioso, pero hasta aquí podemos contar. Edad? De 5 a 12 años. Y, ¿Cómo no? Le damos un 10. 🙂 Portada de Bear in Love de Daniel Pikwater e ilustrado por Will Hillenbrand

[dduane]

Hey, I read your books all my life and, as a kid scorned Harry Potter because I thought you wrote better wizard kid books. I just want you to know I still enjoy everything you put out on social media as an adult and someday hope to read your wizard books to my son (he's four months so we have to wait a bit.)

Thank you!

...And yeah, you might want to wait a little on the reading-him-YW project. :) The books'll keep.

Meanwhile let me highly recommend Daniel M. Pinkwater's The Wuggie Norple Story, which contains (among many other wonders) a young horse called Exploding Poptart.

(And holy cow, here's a video of someone reading it!)

[outerspace-iiinnerspace]

m about halfway through rereading the afterlife diet and i have a lot of thoughts on it.

[chiropteracupola]

books for children with the message 'reading dumas is a thing Cool People do and you can become cooler by doing that' are very important to me

[bracketsoffear]

In Other Worlds (A. A. Attanasio) "It's about a species of brain-eating alien spiders called Zotl who take over and control people by attaching to the back of their skulls and burrowing into the pain centre of their brains."

Young Adult Novel (Daniel Pinkwater) "The Wild Dada Ducks members cause all sorts of mischief around their junior high school, but although the boys are not bad, they like to pretend that they are true dadaists with unintentional and irrational behavior. This story centers around their ongoing story of Kevin Shapiro, a character they invented to explore nihilism and tragedy. When they discover that a student actually named Kevin Shapiro attends their school, they make it their mission to make him popular and succeed beyond their wildest dreams as Kevin becomes a dictator."

[neil-gaiman]

Hi, Neil. Have you ever met Daniel Pinkwater?

I have! He's one of my heroes.

[nevver]

Daniel Pinkwater, 1983 (@stoppingoffplace)