Abby (the) Librarian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I first saw Betsy at A Fuse #8 Production do it. (She was inspired by this post at Ten Block Walk .) Then Melissa at Book Nut chimed in. And I'm not to be outdone. From Betsy's post: The Premise: You have a time machine. In this time machine you may take seven books. Your mission is to visit yourself, in the past, and to give yourself the books you wish you would have read as a kid. They can be old...
news from me (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Aaron R. Davis, a reader of this site, writes to tell me Cartoon Network stuck one of our new Garfield episodes into its schedule today between showings of R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour and Mainframe Entertainment's Scary Godmother: The Revenge...
Boys that Bite (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
For all you fans of Goosebumps out there, just in time for Halloween, I went to an event at the Scholastic headquarters and got to meet R. L. Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series. (As well as many other fine series!) He was really great - so funny and nice. And he really seems to love his readers. His advice to those of you who want to become writers? Read a lot and write everyday - even if you're...
About Theme Parks (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
It frequently shows up on coaster fans' top-10 lists. And it's one of the world's most famous wooden roller coasters. Heck, noted kid-lit author R.L. Stine even wrote a book about it. But this coaster fan thinks The Beast at Kings Island is the single most overrated coaster on the planet. Read why in my coaster review of The Beast . Diamondback at Kings Island Ride Review Kings Island Photo Gallery...
The Kiddosphere @ Fauquier (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I forgot to do a scary stories post for teen readers. Horror/supernatural books are huge right now. Vampires, of course, are all the rage, but werewolves and zombies are predicted to be the new trends. If you're looking for something to keep you up at night, try these books: Another Faust Horror with a literary twist! As you may have guessed, this is a (sort of?) retelling of Goethe's Faust. No vampires...
Savvy Verse & Wit (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Ok, you're in for a group update. Here's the skinny: Anna from Diary of an Eccentric , after 12 hours, is still reading The Return by Victoria Hislop and she is not halfway through it. She says, "I'm lazy and don't want to post. Please forgive me." Anna has yet to finish 1 book yet. As for interruptions, "We're reading with a 9-year-old, what do you think?" she says. LOL Anna is...
GeekDad (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
R. L. Stine’s Haunted House of Sound is basically a Halloween-themed sonic MadLib app. R. L. Stine has contributed 5 stories–best described as gently creepy, not *particularly* scary–and you get to complete them by choosing from a library of sounds, such as body (”big fart”), monster (”monster chuckle”), mad scientist (”theremin”), or animal (”evil...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
titivate \TIT-uh-vayt\, transitive and intransitive verb: To make decorative additions to; spruce. intransitive verb: To make oneself smart or spruce. Titivate is perhaps from tidy + the quasi-Latin ending -vate. When the word originally came into the language, it was written tidivate or tiddivate. The noun form is titivation. shoe whore Someone who owns too many shoes. Like a bag hag but obsessed...
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Actor-screenwriter Matt Damon is 39. Actor Paul Hogan is 70. Singer Fred Cash of The Impressions is 69. Actor-comedian Chevy Chase is 66. Author R.L. Stine (”Goosebumps”) is 66. Country singer Susan Raye is 65. TV personality Sarah Purcell (”Real People”) is 61. Actress Sigourney Weaver is 60. Singer Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool and the [...]
Amy Grindhouse (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Actor Nick Cannon The Nick Cannon Show & Drumline is 29. Actress Sigourney Weaver is 60. Actor-screenwriter Matt Damon is 39. Actor-comedian Chevy Chase is 66. Author R.L. Stine Goosebumps is 66. Actress Karyn Parsons The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is 43. Singer CeCe Winans is 45. Actress Emily Procter CSI: Miami is 41. Singer Teddy Riley is 43. Singer Robert “Kool” Bell of [...]
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Around this time last year, I was assigned a story for work that involved me checking out local haunted houses and evaluating their various levels of scarytude. Easy enough. There was a wrinkle, though. I was to have a pair of dauntless companions—in this case, beloved Goosebumps author R.L. “Jovial Bob” Stine and Peter Gilmore, [...]
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
It all started with a little Cam Jansen and Encyclopedia Brown. I chose my own adventure all the way to Nancy Drew, and then things changed. Onto the scene burst the likes of Paula Danziger, R.L. Stine, Lois Duncan, Christopher Pike, and L.J. Smith. I read fast, and I read a lot. When bored, I used to dream of making all my beloved teen books into movies, wondering who would play The Final Friends...
Bart's Bookshelf (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
About the Book (Publishers Summary) The Purloined Boy, by Mortimus Clay, is a work of fantasy literature for young adults. In parts dark and grotesque, in others luminous and inspiring; it could be described as R. L. Stine meets Plato. (No, not Pluto the dog; Plato the philosopher.) It begins with the question, Where do all those children [...]
Unhyphenated American (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
So, I just finished reading Goodbye, Pink Pig and Help, Pink Pig! by CS Adler. Help was one of my favorite books when I was, oh, between 8 and 12, I suppose. I don't remember exactly, but I know that I read it over and over. Even after all these years some of the phrases still had a familiar sound to me. Goodbye is the first book in the duo and I had never read it; it wasn't really necessary to understand...
save the assistants (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Did you ever read R.L. Stine books when you were a kid? I did, and the trailer for the upcoming movie Cirque de Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant gave me a lot of Goosebumps flashbacks. While the premise is kind of flimsy - a kid who is bored with his life agrees to become an apprentice [...]
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