Wanting You to Have Fun Since 1994
Pages and posts about events, organizing or attending.
We’re continuing with Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (English translation by Ralph Manheim). Atreyu’s been separated from Falkor and AURYN, and he’s in an abandoned city whose former inhabitants have jumped into the Nothing, except for one creature, a dying werewolf who isn’t actually from...
I’m continuing to read Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. Atreyu is the last Fantastican to ask Uyulala in the Southern Oracle who can give the Childlike Empress a name and save all of Fantastica, but her answer was that only a human can do it,...
Continuing with Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. As Bastian continues to read along in the attic of his school, he wonders how Atreyu heard his shout of fear, and meanwhile Atreyu finds himself and Falkor at the Southern Oracle, where they can ask the question:...
We’re in the third week of Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. As Bastian reads the book, it appears that the Childlike Empress, and in turn Fantastica itself, can only be saved if someone gives her a new name, and she’s designated young hero Atreyu to...
Well, what would The Neverending Story do, other than continue? We’ll start with Chapter 2, having read the introduction and Chapter 1 last week. Messengers from all over Fantastica have been journeying to the Ivory Tower to bring to the Childlike Empress dire news: a...
It’s finally time to start Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (English translation; the original’s in German). I’ve been teasing it for so long that some people may have thought it was the Never-Beginning Story! Many people are probably familiar with the movie from the 1980s,...
I was going to start The Neverending Story this Sunday, but I found out that many of the UK folks will be gone for an event the whole weekend. So I’m delaying it until next Sunday, and in the meantime, I’m doing something I think...
Last time at “early” storytime, I started reading Johnny Gruelle’s Raggedy Andy’s Stories, from 1920 – after having read his first book of stories about Raggedy Ann from 1919. They’re old-fashioned (also very white, though) children’s stories illustrated by the author. We’re about halfway through...
We’ll be reading the final chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Roverandom and the last of the “Get-Along Gang” books that Squeakybunny gave me – after that, who knows? The “Early” Stream for our friends in the UK, Europe, etc.:11 a.m. EST / 8 a.m. PST /...
Continuing with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Roverandom, and in the evening there’s more “Get-Along Gang” to read, including some terrible moose puns! The “Early” Stream for our friends in the UK, Europe, etc.:11 a.m. EST / 8 a.m. PST / 4 p.m. GMT/WETThe “Late” Stream for our...
