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telophase has an ongoing sequence of posts in which she analyzes how manga works on a visual level, with examples, like Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. It's great stuff.telophase has an ongoing sequence of posts in which she analyzes how manga works on a visual level, with examples, like Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. It's great stuff.telophase has an ongoing sequence of posts in which she analyzes how manga works on a visual level, with examples, like Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. It's great stuff.All used.
Joan Aiken, Morningquest. "A family you'll never forget in a novel of love and hope." Awful-sounding mainstream novel, but it's Joan Aiken, so it just might be terrific.
John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps. I remember liking this when I was about ten, and thinking it was quite different from the movie.
Jean Slaughter Doty, Summer Pony. OK story about a girl and her horse-- nowhere near as interesting as The Monday Horses or Can I Get There By Candlelight? , intended for younger readers and mostly focused on horse care.
Paul Gallico, The Hand of Mary Constable. Gallico is now almost forgotten, I think, but despite dated attitudes about women a number of his books are still quite vivid and readable. This is one of the two he wrote about a man who investigates psychic phenomena, and I've been looking for it for years. Not great literature, as I recall, but very fun stuff and nostalgic for me as I was a huge fan of his as a kid.
Rumer Godden, The Kitchen Madonna. An illustrated kids' book. Rumer Godden is very hit or miss, so I hope at least one of these three is good.
Rumer Godden, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy. I have hopes for this one, as I am very fond of her two other nun books, In this House of Brede and Black Narcissus. The former makes a strict everyday routine seem fascinating, and the latter, though trading on one of Godden's most annoying themes, the Unknowable Orient (and the Unknowable Oriental) is one of the most atmospheric books I've ever read.
Rumer Godden, Coromandel Sea Change. British newlyweds in India. I will probably hate the politics and love the atmosphere and setting. Godden grew up in India, and writes vividly of the place while not connecting at all with the people.
Doris Piserchia, Spaceling. Little-known author of surrealistic, feminist-before-their-time sf.
Christine Pullein-Thompson, I Carried the Horn!. I bought this because I remember loving her horse novel The First Rosette when I was nine, but I now think I must have been awfully uncritical because this book was awful. Uncharacterized kids go fox hunting, and nothing happens in the entire book-- well, I was skimming, but as far as I could tell the only actual events were that the main character gets lost on a hunt, and later her horse makes a dramatic leap over a gravel pit. Really boring.
Ronald Rood, Animals Nobody Loves. Nonfiction. A lot of nature books reference him, but I've never seen one of his books before.
The Adolescence of Utena, manga by Chiho Saito. I'm holding off on reading the manga until I've finished the anime, which is the most intellectual, most overtly feminist, and most bizarre anime I've encountered so far. This has musical numbers with lyrics like, "Dream of Scipio/Triassic! Jurassic! Cretaceous! Absolute Destiny Apocalypse!" It's like an anime fan who also happened to be a feminist professor of philosophy took LSD and created this series before coming down. I'm currently in the middle of the uber-creepy Black Rose arc.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles 2-4, by CLAMP. Found them used after reading the first one-- bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! It's a cross-over collect-the-plot-coupons series, but really charming and fun.
Joan Aiken, Morningquest. "A family you'll never forget in a novel of love and hope." Awful-sounding mainstream novel, but it's Joan Aiken, so it just might be terrific.
John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps. I remember liking this when I was about ten, and thinking it was quite different from the movie.
Jean Slaughter Doty, Summer Pony. OK story about a girl and her horse-- nowhere near as interesting as The Monday Horses or Can I Get There By Candlelight? , intended for younger readers and mostly focused on horse care.
Paul Gallico, The Hand of Mary Constable. Gallico is now almost forgotten, I think, but despite dated attitudes about women a number of his books are still quite vivid and readable. This is one of the two he wrote about a man who investigates psychic phenomena, and I've been looking for it for years. Not great literature, as I recall, but very fun stuff and nostalgic for me as I was a huge fan of his as a kid.
Rumer Godden, The Kitchen Madonna. An illustrated kids' book. Rumer Godden is very hit or miss, so I hope at least one of these three is good.
Rumer Godden, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy. I have hopes for this one, as I am very fond of her two other nun books, In this House of Brede and Black Narcissus. The former makes a strict everyday routine seem fascinating, and the latter, though trading on one of Godden's most annoying themes, the Unknowable Orient (and the Unknowable Oriental) is one of the most atmospheric books I've ever read.
Rumer Godden, Coromandel Sea Change. British newlyweds in India. I will probably hate the politics and love the atmosphere and setting. Godden grew up in India, and writes vividly of the place while not connecting at all with the people.
Doris Piserchia, Spaceling. Little-known author of surrealistic, feminist-before-their-time sf.
Christine Pullein-Thompson, I Carried the Horn!. I bought this because I remember loving her horse novel The First Rosette when I was nine, but I now think I must have been awfully uncritical because this book was awful. Uncharacterized kids go fox hunting, and nothing happens in the entire book-- well, I was skimming, but as far as I could tell the only actual events were that the main character gets lost on a hunt, and later her horse makes a dramatic leap over a gravel pit. Really boring.
Ronald Rood, Animals Nobody Loves. Nonfiction. A lot of nature books reference him, but I've never seen one of his books before.
The Adolescence of Utena, manga by Chiho Saito. I'm holding off on reading the manga until I've finished the anime, which is the most intellectual, most overtly feminist, and most bizarre anime I've encountered so far. This has musical numbers with lyrics like, "Dream of Scipio/Triassic! Jurassic! Cretaceous! Absolute Destiny Apocalypse!" It's like an anime fan who also happened to be a feminist professor of philosophy took LSD and created this series before coming down. I'm currently in the middle of the uber-creepy Black Rose arc.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles 2-4, by CLAMP. Found them used after reading the first one-- bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! It's a cross-over collect-the-plot-coupons series, but really charming and fun.
All used.
Joan Aiken, Morningquest. "A family you'll never forget in a novel of love and hope." Awful-sounding mainstream novel, but it's Joan Aiken, so it just might be terrific.
John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps. I remember liking this when I was about ten, and thinking it was quite different from the movie.
Jean Slaughter Doty, Summer Pony. OK story about a girl and her horse-- nowhere near as interesting as The Monday Horses or Can I Get There By Candlelight? , intended for younger readers and mostly focused on horse care.
Paul Gallico, The Hand of Mary Constable. Gallico is now almost forgotten, I think, but despite dated attitudes about women a number of his books are still quite vivid and readable. This is one of the two he wrote about a man who investigates psychic phenomena, and I've been looking for it for years. Not great literature, as I recall, but very fun stuff and nostalgic for me as I was a huge fan of his as a kid.
Rumer Godden, The Kitchen Madonna. An illustrated kids' book. Rumer Godden is very hit or miss, so I hope at least one of these three is good.
Rumer Godden, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy. I have hopes for this one, as I am very fond of her two other nun books, In this House of Brede and Black Narcissus. The former makes a strict everyday routine seem fascinating, and the latter, though trading on one of Godden's most annoying themes, the Unknowable Orient (and the Unknowable Oriental) is one of the most atmospheric books I've ever read.
Rumer Godden, Coromandel Sea Change. British newlyweds in India. I will probably hate the politics and love the atmosphere and setting. Godden grew up in India, and writes vividly of the place while not connecting at all with the people.
Doris Piserchia, Spaceling. Little-known author of surrealistic, feminist-before-their-time sf.
Christine Pullein-Thompson, I Carried the Horn!. I bought this because I remember loving her horse novel The First Rosette when I was nine, but I now think I must have been awfully uncritical because this book was awful. Uncharacterized kids go fox hunting, and nothing happens in the entire book-- well, I was skimming, but as far as I could tell the only actual events were that the main character gets lost on a hunt, and later her horse makes a dramatic leap over a gravel pit. Really boring.
Ronald Rood, Animals Nobody Loves. Nonfiction. A lot of nature books reference him, but I've never seen one of his books before.
The Adolescence of Utena, manga by Chiho Saito. I'm holding off on reading the manga until I've finished the anime, which is the most intellectual, most overtly feminist, and most bizarre anime I've encountered so far. This has musical numbers with lyrics like, "Dream of Scipio/Triassic! Jurassic! Cretaceous! Absolute Destiny Apocalypse!" It's like an anime fan who also happened to be a feminist professor of philosophy took LSD and created this series before coming down. I'm currently in the middle of the uber-creepy Black Rose arc.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles 2-4, by CLAMP. Found them used after reading the first one-- bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! It's a cross-over collect-the-plot-coupons series, but really charming and fun.
Joan Aiken, Morningquest. "A family you'll never forget in a novel of love and hope." Awful-sounding mainstream novel, but it's Joan Aiken, so it just might be terrific.
John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps. I remember liking this when I was about ten, and thinking it was quite different from the movie.
Jean Slaughter Doty, Summer Pony. OK story about a girl and her horse-- nowhere near as interesting as The Monday Horses or Can I Get There By Candlelight? , intended for younger readers and mostly focused on horse care.
Paul Gallico, The Hand of Mary Constable. Gallico is now almost forgotten, I think, but despite dated attitudes about women a number of his books are still quite vivid and readable. This is one of the two he wrote about a man who investigates psychic phenomena, and I've been looking for it for years. Not great literature, as I recall, but very fun stuff and nostalgic for me as I was a huge fan of his as a kid.
Rumer Godden, The Kitchen Madonna. An illustrated kids' book. Rumer Godden is very hit or miss, so I hope at least one of these three is good.
Rumer Godden, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy. I have hopes for this one, as I am very fond of her two other nun books, In this House of Brede and Black Narcissus. The former makes a strict everyday routine seem fascinating, and the latter, though trading on one of Godden's most annoying themes, the Unknowable Orient (and the Unknowable Oriental) is one of the most atmospheric books I've ever read.
Rumer Godden, Coromandel Sea Change. British newlyweds in India. I will probably hate the politics and love the atmosphere and setting. Godden grew up in India, and writes vividly of the place while not connecting at all with the people.
Doris Piserchia, Spaceling. Little-known author of surrealistic, feminist-before-their-time sf.
Christine Pullein-Thompson, I Carried the Horn!. I bought this because I remember loving her horse novel The First Rosette when I was nine, but I now think I must have been awfully uncritical because this book was awful. Uncharacterized kids go fox hunting, and nothing happens in the entire book-- well, I was skimming, but as far as I could tell the only actual events were that the main character gets lost on a hunt, and later her horse makes a dramatic leap over a gravel pit. Really boring.
Ronald Rood, Animals Nobody Loves. Nonfiction. A lot of nature books reference him, but I've never seen one of his books before.
The Adolescence of Utena, manga by Chiho Saito. I'm holding off on reading the manga until I've finished the anime, which is the most intellectual, most overtly feminist, and most bizarre anime I've encountered so far. This has musical numbers with lyrics like, "Dream of Scipio/Triassic! Jurassic! Cretaceous! Absolute Destiny Apocalypse!" It's like an anime fan who also happened to be a feminist professor of philosophy took LSD and created this series before coming down. I'm currently in the middle of the uber-creepy Black Rose arc.
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles 2-4, by CLAMP. Found them used after reading the first one-- bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! It's a cross-over collect-the-plot-coupons series, but really charming and fun.
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