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.
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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."
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
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.”
Tom Scola - Feb 28, 2008 10:18:45 am PST #5146 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Political contributions by people who identify their occupation as "novelist": [link]