I've been thinking I need to get some books out of the library. Time to re-read Andre.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'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."
Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2009 9:34:20 am PDT #9698 of 28393
brillig
dcp - Jul 21, 2009 12:44:57 pm PDT #9699 of 28393
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I think Gerald wrote about animals ....
Yes, but almost all of it is autobiographical -- Corfu in the '30s, England in the '40s, west Africa in the '50s -- and is as much about people and places as it is about animals.
I remember hating Lawrence's stuff, but it was long enough ago that I don't remember why.
Kathy A - Jul 21, 2009 1:52:31 pm PDT #9700 of 28393
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My first crush on a book character was on Ross Murdoch in Norton's Time Trader books.
Eomer from Lord of the Rings for me.
Beverly - Jul 21, 2009 9:15:00 pm PDT #9701 of 28393
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I never read Lawrence, but I was intrigued and frequently delighted reading about Gerald's far-flung childhood habitats and the creatures he encountered/adopted/studied.
If I have a literary hero, it's probably Robin Hood. I have a collection including children's and YA novels (Wyeth and Hildebrandt illos!), romances, fantasies, and scholarly examinations of the myth and legend including an 1850's book with leather spine and quarterboards entitled Robin Hood: Being a collection of Ballads and tales from the Borderlands...and I forget the rest. It goes on quite a ways. It's a very odd little thing, but I'm pleased to have it. Second (heh. of course) would be F'nor of the Dragonweyrs, second in command to his more flamboyant brother F'lar, figurehead and leader of the weyrs. F'nor was rider of brown Canth, in McCaffrey's first two Pern novels, loyal, perceptive, observant, and reflective, more levelheaded than his brother, and a half-step out of the limelight. My kind of guy.
Girl heroes: Nancy Drew, Podkayne of Mars, Menolly of the Harperhall, Marion in McKinley's Outlaws of Sherwood, Gillan in Norton's Year of the Unicorn, lots of Norton's women and girls, who seemed to function just fine with or without male support, Harriet Vane.
I'm sure there are more of either gender, these are all that come immediately to mind.
DavidS - Jul 22, 2009 9:06:43 am PDT #9702 of 28393
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Flickr set of Gothic Romance covers from the 60s.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 22, 2009 9:08:52 am PDT #9703 of 28393
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I used to have the Dennis Wheatley book with that exact cover. I may still (not sure I ever got around to reading it, but the Hammer movie was quite good).
Sophia Brooks - Jul 22, 2009 9:19:03 am PDT #9704 of 28393
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am pretty sure I still have the 2 Victoria Holt books at my mom's house.
Beverly - Jul 22, 2009 9:26:29 am PDT #9705 of 28393
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Victoria Holt is Jean Plaidy--pass it on!
I think she has another pen name, too. I'm just too lazy to Google right now.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 22, 2009 10:05:05 am PDT #9706 of 28393
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Phillipa something?
sj - Jul 22, 2009 10:20:05 am PDT #9707 of 28393
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Phillipa Carr.