Can you see the old-fashioned rounded edge fridge and the glass milk bottle when you think this?
When this happens (and it's almost every time I put milk {or cream, or sometimes Bailey's} in my coffee) I'm just looking in the cup and watching the liquid behave as liquid does when the words coalesce in my head. It was only this morning, after our YA conversation, that I'd really thought about where the words come from and what is happening in that scene. I didn't see the fridge or the milk bottle but the camera on the cup in my mind panned back a little and I saw a green formica tabletop with a metal edge.
I mentioned the young adult conversation to Mom. She said she loved Nancy Drew and "all the dog and horse books" and I realized we've missed Black Beauty!
I'm in the middle of
Warrior's Apprentice,
and I'm already missing Cordelia.
Barryar
wasn't in the library, darn it.
Barryar wasn't in the library, darn it.
Did you read Shards of Honor first, or the smooshed-together Cordelia's Honor, which is (IIRC) Shards of Honor and Barrayar in one volume?
Barrayar is SO good, because Cordelia kicks SO much ass.
Mom also recommends
The Secret Garden
and
Thunderhead.
Shards of Honor,
it was a separate volume. Months ago the folks here listed the books in chronological order, and that's how I'm trying to read them.
I loved Black Beauty!
When I was young, my cousin and I would draw and cut out paper horses. (Similar to Velvet Brown in
National Velvet
but she cut out photographs of horses - also - NATIONAL VELVET.) Anyway, I made paper horses of ALL the horse characters from
Black Beauty
even the really minor ones.
Oh, I loved Mary O'Hara's novels--My Friend Flicka, Thunderheart, and the third one, I memfault the name. They got increasingly mature and emotionally complex as they went. I also really liked her autobiography, which makes it clear she wrote the novels from experience.
Have we mentioned
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? Kara is probably a little young for that, though.
