If Ariel is what I'm thinking of (boy and his unicorn, set in a world where electricity suddently stops working and magic suddenly starts working), I have very fond memories.
Wow. I remember that book. IIRC, that was the first blow job that I ever read. Actually, I think that's how I found out about blow jobs. (Am I right? The girl seduces him? There's loving detail about her hair brushing back and forth on his stomach? The things an 11-year old mind remembers. (We picked it up at the used bookstore.))
Sophia - yeah, but give her some Allingham, too, cos she's better than either - and utterly suitable for that age.
mmm, Allingham. Lugg and Amanda and the Canon ...
Oh wow - I loved
Ariel
but I thought I was alone in the world. Thanks for the linkage, John!
I just got a notice from the library that Laurie King's The Game is finally waiting for me. Do I remember that people here didn't think it was that good?
I guess I'd better finish Agatha Christie's Passenger to Frankfurt first. I didn't realize she wrote for so long -- this book is from 1970.
Got a bunch of Pratchett out of the library. Currently reading "Men At Arms." God, I love Vimes. Heck. all the Guard. And Vetinari.
Oh, I love "Men at Arms." It's only the second of the Night Watch books-- after "Guards, Guards!" and I think it's where the Watch really gels, as a group of characters.
I have yet to read any of the Watch books. I think my favorite Pratchett is
Thief of Time.
It's just so freaking awesome, with the plots intertwining, and the playing around with the nature of time, and it has such a lovely last line.
"Jingo" is my favorite Guards books. I love how Vetinari uses Vimes as his weapon of last resort and how Vimes realizes that Vetinari is actually on his side.
And Nobby: "He was supposed to have the body of a twenty-five-year-old, but nobody seemed to be sure where it was."
