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30 Days of Books - A Late Day 13
Aug. 17th, 2010 08:56 am
I keep getting behind on this...
Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)
My absolute, all-time favorite childhood book is... The Velveteen Rabbit, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Where the Wild Things Are and Quetico Wolf. I cannot choose between them. All of them sit on my bookshelf today, although they are not the same books from when I was a kid. Quetico Wolf was in my third grade classroom, & the rest were in the library.
It took me a Helluva long time and considerable effort to get ahold of Quetico. I had to find the publishing house & write to them to have them forward my request to the author's agent to locate a copy that was still available for sale via special order. Holy crap. At least they just charged me the cover price + shipping/handling. They could have been dicks & charged a finder's fee. It's simply illustrated with line drawings in blue, black and white, very stark. It's a big contrast against the lavish illustrations in The Girl Who Loved... & Wild Things. WtWTA is so lush and has so much depth, and TGWLWH just makes me want to get all the pictures tattooed on me, line drawings full of rich earthy colors. And the stories... oh, the words.
As far as the 'YA' section, there were a few books I read - all pure fantasy. Meredith Pierce's Firebringer series, Clare Bell's Ratha books and this other book about a boy who lived with otter-like creatures & fought some kind of wyrm. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of that book & can't find any references to it online anywhere. One of the best things about YA books was the vast array of sexual scenarios couched in these rich fantasy worlds. Cat sex, unicorn sex, otter sex, wyrm sex - but no one ever questioned it because hey, they were marked 'YA', not Playboy. No wonder I've got this thing for dogs & horses & bears oh my - all I ever watched as a kid was nature programs on PBS & got all my sex ed from unicorns & talking cats.
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Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)
My absolute, all-time favorite childhood book is... The Velveteen Rabbit, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Where the Wild Things Are and Quetico Wolf. I cannot choose between them. All of them sit on my bookshelf today, although they are not the same books from when I was a kid. Quetico Wolf was in my third grade classroom, & the rest were in the library.
It took me a Helluva long time and considerable effort to get ahold of Quetico. I had to find the publishing house & write to them to have them forward my request to the author's agent to locate a copy that was still available for sale via special order. Holy crap. At least they just charged me the cover price + shipping/handling. They could have been dicks & charged a finder's fee. It's simply illustrated with line drawings in blue, black and white, very stark. It's a big contrast against the lavish illustrations in The Girl Who Loved... & Wild Things. WtWTA is so lush and has so much depth, and TGWLWH just makes me want to get all the pictures tattooed on me, line drawings full of rich earthy colors. And the stories... oh, the words.
As far as the 'YA' section, there were a few books I read - all pure fantasy. Meredith Pierce's Firebringer series, Clare Bell's Ratha books and this other book about a boy who lived with otter-like creatures & fought some kind of wyrm. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of that book & can't find any references to it online anywhere. One of the best things about YA books was the vast array of sexual scenarios couched in these rich fantasy worlds. Cat sex, unicorn sex, otter sex, wyrm sex - but no one ever questioned it because hey, they were marked 'YA', not Playboy. No wonder I've got this thing for dogs & horses & bears oh my - all I ever watched as a kid was nature programs on PBS & got all my sex ed from unicorns & talking cats.
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