tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post7909190563377847704..comments2024-01-18T05:18:48.819-05:00Comments on Wombat's World <small>(a blog for writer K. A. Laity)</small>: Friday's Forgotten Books: Shrieks at MidnightK. A. Laityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-54534592038234479462009-03-06T11:24:00.000-05:002009-03-06T11:24:00.000-05:00YEA!!!I loved Shrieks at Midnight as a kid! I usu...YEA!!!<BR/>I loved Shrieks at Midnight as a kid! I usually don't like poetry, but I loved this stuff. I used to take it out of our little town library over and over again. It helped me become the morbid soul I am today (well, as my mother would say, I always was a weird kid, and the book helped it along...).<BR/><BR/>And now I have my own copy! Thanks to you!! Big hugs! :-)CLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18348533141508294220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-85986915816107628562009-03-06T11:21:00.000-05:002009-03-06T11:21:00.000-05:00Oh! Must find a copy of that, stat!Alice in Wonde...Oh! Must find a copy of that, stat!<BR/><BR/>Alice in Wonderland was big for me, too, when I was younger...as well as the Dr. Doolittle books and Jules Verne at that age.<BR/><BR/>I think Maurice Sendak was the one who inspired my visually as a child- his drawings have a certain flowy creepiness to them that I just love.The Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01941890139358671232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-20097184432352259172009-03-06T11:05:00.000-05:002009-03-06T11:05:00.000-05:00Helicopter parents, I have gradually realised, are...Helicopter parents, I have gradually realised, are all about complete self-absorption and not about the kids. They like having little dependent beings who love them wholeheartedly (but not forever, hence their constant anxiety).<BR/><BR/>I blame this book for giving me a mild talent for doggerel. It serves to amuse occasionally, but little more. I will never be a poet.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-15303700859118967672009-03-06T10:57:00.000-05:002009-03-06T10:57:00.000-05:00My goodness, even the dullest helicopter parent sh...My goodness, even the dullest helicopter parent should be cheered by the last line of the Parker, "You might as well live."<BR/><BR/>Pity I missed this one at a tender age, though occasionally my beloved anthologies of prose would include summa that versified stuff, too...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com