Mom also recommends The Secret Garden and Thunderhead.
Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?
'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
Laga - Aug 31, 2008 9:46:35 am PDT #7202 of 28404
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Connie Neil - Aug 31, 2008 9:55:20 am PDT #7203 of 28404
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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.
sumi - Aug 31, 2008 11:04:49 am PDT #7204 of 28404
Art Crawl!!!
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.
Ginger - Aug 31, 2008 11:08:45 am PDT #7205 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Barrayar is SO good, because Cordelia kicks SO much ass.
Shopping!
Consuela - Aug 31, 2008 11:45:47 am PDT #7206 of 28404
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Ginger - Aug 31, 2008 11:47:51 am PDT #7207 of 28404
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Have we mentioned A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? Kara is probably a little young for that, though.
Deena - Aug 31, 2008 1:17:30 pm PDT #7208 of 28404
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
The Secret Garden, is one of my favorites, but she found the premise boring when I tried it about 6 months ago. I may give it another try in another 6 months. I do not know Thunderhead.
I loved Misty of Chincoteague and those stories, did not love Black Beauty as much. She loves horses though, so I'll
aidan (short break so Aidan could write his name)
try them all. I think A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a little old, but some of the others are too. I'll add it to the list for later.
Laga - Aug 31, 2008 1:23:43 pm PDT #7209 of 28404
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I knew Thunderhead was the sequel to My Friend Flicka but neither Mom nor I realized they were part of a trilogy. I don't think I ever read the third book.
sumi - Aug 31, 2008 3:50:02 pm PDT #7210 of 28404
Art Crawl!!!
The third book is more about Thunderhead.
ETA: The third book is called Green Grass of Wyoming.
All three books have been made into movies. (I've only seen My Friend Flicka though.)
Jessica - Sep 01, 2008 3:56:58 am PDT #7211 of 28404
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think I liked Barrayar so much that the lack of Cordelia in the subsequent books (or the very small amount of Cordelia) made me sad
Yeah, that's fair. Cordelia's really only a main character in the first two, and after that they become Miles' books. (Except for Ethan of Athos, which is about Elli Quinn. I remember wanting to like it more than I did, which is a shame because Elli is awesome.)
Borders of Infinity has important continuity stuff in it, but I never really liked it until I'd read the whole series and then went back and read it to fill in the gaps. (Without it, the approximately umpty-jillion references to Dagoola IV went right over my head, but somehow I could never get through it until I already knew where the missing chunks of story were going to be filled in, if that makes sense.)