'Lessons'
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."
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).
Farley and Henry! I loved the horse books.
There were more: Patsy Grey. . . Sam Savitt (although he was mostly an illustrator), C.W. Anderson. . . Dorothy Lyon(s?).
Kathy, I found that one in a used bookstore in high school...I still laughed.
ooh, a whole website devoted to horse books.
King of the Wind! Still a favorite, as are the Farleys, before he incorporated the space aliens wtf?
Victoria Holt is also somebody else - both of whose books I read.
Jean Plaidy and Phillipa Carr.
Also, Barbara Michaels is actually Barbara Mertz, aka Elizabeth Peters.
That's right and I read Jean Plaidy and Phillipa Carr too.
Also, Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters.