Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
It was bothering me too, Amy. Now help me think of the Jane or Joan person who wrote gothics, british, sort of family saga-ish things?
And DuMaurier--again, practically everything she ever wrote. Apparently I didn't read anything written by a man for about ten years!
Jean Francis Webb, Joan Aiken Hodge, Jean English?
Damn, the book I'm thinking of isn't on the list for Whitney or Eden or Holt! I can SEE the cover. And it was almost a Marion and Indy story -- he was some adventurer who knew her as a child, and when he comes back, they fall in love. But it's completely international, like ... somewhere really cold, and then somewhere wealthy.
Wow, that's a lame description. But there was something in the title either with fire or dragon or possibly silk ...
Hodge! Thanks. I never read Webb or English, I don't know why. Apparently I read everybody else.
Could it have been a Michaels or a Hodge, I wonder? Or maybe this one?
I never read any Sweet Valley High either, although they were certainly in the library. I think they were more popular with kids slightly older than me. When I was a kid I was reading copious amounts of Babysitter's Club, Boxcar Children, and Goosebumps.
It's not that one, Bev, although it looks sort of similar.
I'm going to have to ask my mom tomorrow, damn it. And I know she's not going to remember.
Did anyone outside of the Chicago area read a book called Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Does Southern Wisconsin count? I remember enjoying it thoroughly, but I don't remember much more than the bare outline. And the narrator's First Confession.
Tor.com is having a Steampunk fortnight.
But also my mom's old Victoria Holts and pretty much anything she had around -- a lot of those big family saga books like Evergreen that were big at the end of the 1970s
Oh my gosh, me too! From about age 10-14? something like that. I didn't read horror though. too scary!
I am also too old for Sweet Valley.
Victoria Holt is also somebody else - both of whose books I read.
I think that the Sweet Valley High books were after my time.
I read some Nancy Drew, some Bobbsey Twins, all of the Marguerite Henry and Walter Farley I could get my hands on - ditto for Jim Kjelgaard (Big Red, Irish Red, Outlaw Red among others).