My Antonia? I'm not sure it's in the age range you're looking for, though. Or what the age range for that book would be.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
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."
Dana - Feb 22, 2008 8:43:35 am PST #5136 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ginger - Feb 22, 2008 9:03:04 am PST #5137 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There are Bess Streeter Aldrich's books about Nebraska pioneers. I loved them in high school. A Lantern in Her Hand is classified as young adult, but I'm not sure about the others.
beth b - Feb 22, 2008 9:03:07 am PST #5138 of 28344
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
erikaj - Feb 22, 2008 11:58:32 am PST #5139 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
I liked the books at first mostly because of the show(even though the show got kind of soap-opera. Some of the early episodes kind of had the same feel, I thought. But then people kinda started flipping out.) I used to reread them, but the last time I did, my parents were getting divorced. I think that would be the memory now, not Christmas oranges.
Laga - Feb 22, 2008 1:02:39 pm PST #5140 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Not sure if you want to go this route but the American Girl Kirsten is a pioneer.
Maysa - Feb 22, 2008 4:06:18 pm PST #5141 of 28344
I liked Understood Betsy a lot as a kid, too. But I think Betsy was just sent to live on a farm - not a pioneer story.
Scrappy - Feb 23, 2008 8:13:49 am PST #5142 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
A farm in Vermont. It's a GREAT book.
Amy - Feb 23, 2008 8:16:27 am PST #5143 of 28344
Because books.
Oh, I loved Understood Betsy! And I read Caddie Woodlawn (which I didn't love as much as the Little House books) and Strawberry Girl. God, I want to get out *all* my childhood books now.
Steph L. - Feb 26, 2008 9:45:03 am PST #5144 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
In non-Little House news (though now I want to re-read them, dang it!), I'm about a chapter away from the end of The Subtle Knife, and:
(1) I can see the whole Dust premise starting to unravel;
(2) Lee Scoresby! Noooooo!; and
(3) Seriously, Pullman couldn't come up with a better name for the knife (not to mention the book title) than the "subtle knife"? Lame.
And although I can see the Dust premise unraveling, I'm going to read The Amber Spyglass just so I can see how it all turns out.
brenda m - Feb 26, 2008 5:06:37 pm PST #5145 of 28344
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Random House to stop using DRM on its audiobooks. [link]
But the interesting part is why:
Seems Random House, in a fit of unfettered wisdom, ran a DRM-free audiobook distribution program online and found that “none of the pirate editions of their audiobooks online came from those DRM-free editions.” All the pirated versions they found were from DRM-editions that had been cracked, stripped of their protection, or ripped from CD. To quote Cory Doctorow, “DUH.”