or how many times I've read each of those.

Well, if any of them is as good as the couple I have read ("Nightbirds on Nantucket" and "Wolves of Willoghby Chase"), then they definitely deserve it. Ever since the first read (a library book, now lost from the library itself, never found in any second-hand bookstore) I couldn't get my hands on a copy of "Wolves", but I've read "Nightbirds on Nantucket" (from the same library, lost only years later, and, again, never seen in any store afterwards) over and over again (and before any of the others, too).

[Edit: could this sentence get any more confused or have more parentheses?]

I think that I still need Blackhearts in Battersea, Midnight is a Place, The Stolen Lake . . . and the new one of course.

("Nightbirds on Nantucket" and "Wolves of Willoghby Chase"),

This makes me feel sad, because those two books are in a series, but they're a book apart. I guess the intervening books wasn't translated into Hebrew? I am distressed on behalf of Nilly and other Israeli children.

The series goes:

1 - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase 2 - Black Hearts in Battersea 3 - Nightbirds on Nantucket 4 - The Stolen Lake * 5 - The Cuckoo Tree 6 - Dido and Pa 7 - Is (or Is Underground) 8 - Limbo Lodge (or Cold Shoulder Road) 9 - Dangerous Games

and the forthcoming Midwinter Nightingale.

* Goes there chronologically but actually written after The Cuckoo Tree. The Whispering Mountain is set in the same world.

[Edited because one equals neither three nor four.]

I have never read any Aiken, but I sense a book spree coming on.

Over Christmas I read dumb books (Da Vinci Code, a Grisham, an Evelyn Anthony (what a racist phobe she is)). Now I'm reading Mojo: Conjure Stories an anthology edited by Nalo Hopkinson, and so far it's batting a pretty high percentage. Good personal magic African and diasporic stuff. Mostly voodoo, but still good.

Where does The Whispering Mountain fit in this? It's definitely related!

Like the senseless crackhead I am, I'm reading Anne Rice's Blood Canticle, because even though the writing is utterly execrable, I need to know what happens to the characters.

And when I say execrable, I mean it. The entire first chapter is Rice herself, using the thinly veiled excuse of Lestat speaking in first person, basically RANTING at her readership for not liking previous books. And I am not even remotely kidding. She needs to SO get over herself.

Yes, Micole, you are right - they weren't translated at all, and I've never seen any of her books in English anywhere here.

Thanks for posting that list. I hope I'll get to use it soon, somewhere.

DH read Blood Canticle. I think he was ashamed. At least he only reads her books from the library now.

Oh, I'm ashamed, believe me. And you bet I got it from the library.

ita, that sounds interesting. I'll have to request it from the library.

I've read most of the books by Joan Aiken. That's saddening.