You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.

Giles ,'Touched'


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."


sumi - Oct 21, 2010 8:23:51 am PDT #12680 of 28348
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 28348
brillig

Farley and Henry! I loved the horse books.


sumi - Oct 21, 2010 9:13:24 am PDT #12682 of 28348
Art Crawl!!!

There were more: Patsy Grey. . . Sam Savitt (although he was mostly an illustrator), C.W. Anderson. . . Dorothy Lyon(s?).


erikaj - Oct 21, 2010 9:37:39 am PDT #12683 of 28348
Always Anti-fascist!

Kathy, I found that one in a used bookstore in high school...I still laughed.


sumi - Oct 21, 2010 9:55:14 am PDT #12684 of 28348
Art Crawl!!!

ooh, a whole website devoted to horse books.


Beverly - Oct 21, 2010 10:02:24 am PDT #12685 of 28348
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

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.


sumi - Oct 21, 2010 10:05:29 am PDT #12686 of 28348
Art Crawl!!!

That's right and I read Jean Plaidy and Phillipa Carr too.

Also, Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters.


Connie Neil - Oct 21, 2010 10:39:08 am PDT #12687 of 28348
brillig

Barbara Mertz writes very interesting books on Egyptology. Having a talented author is handy when dealing with dull-to-some topics.


Beverly - Oct 21, 2010 10:40:49 am PDT #12688 of 28348
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Her expertise and knowledge of the subject certainly enhances her fiction--both the Peabodys and the Vicki Bliss books.


Gudanov - Oct 21, 2010 10:41:22 am PDT #12689 of 28348
Coding and Sleeping

I've read a number of the Peabody books, but I petered out on the series. I thought the Peabody clan got a little too perfect over time.