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?
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Beverly - Oct 20, 2010 4:18:31 pm PDT #12673 of 28293
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
zuisa - Oct 20, 2010 4:35:39 pm PDT #12674 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
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.
Amy - Oct 20, 2010 4:39:25 pm PDT #12675 of 28293
Because books.
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.
le nubian - Oct 20, 2010 5:03:19 pm PDT #12676 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Fred Pete - Oct 21, 2010 5:03:54 am PDT #12677 of 28293
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
sumi - Oct 21, 2010 7:46:50 am PDT #12678 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Tor.com is having a Steampunk fortnight.
lisah - Oct 21, 2010 8:19:58 am PDT #12679 of 28293
Punishingly Intricate
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.
sumi - Oct 21, 2010 8:23:51 am PDT #12680 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
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).
Connie Neil - Oct 21, 2010 9:00:15 am PDT #12681 of 28293
brillig
Farley and Henry! I loved the horse books.
sumi - Oct 21, 2010 9:13:24 am PDT #12682 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
There were more: Patsy Grey. . . Sam Savitt (although he was mostly an illustrator), C.W. Anderson. . . Dorothy Lyon(s?).