I first read Watership Down when I was young and I've lost count of how many times I've read it since then. I'm actually reading it again now! I also still like the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew stories and the Three Investigators books. Last year, thanks to the movie "The House with a Clock in Its Walls", I discovered the Lewis Barnavelt books by John Bellairs (with the delightful Edward Gorey illustrations, please!). The Hobbit, of course, is an old friend.
Personally, I loved airplane books as a kid, so when I could find a copy of the "Yankee Flier" series by Rutherford George Montgomery, writing as Al Avery. The main character, Stan Wilson, fights in multiple theaters of WW2, aided by his British and Irish wingmen. My favorite in the series is "A Yankee Flier in North Africa" from 1943. All the books are out of print, so finding them has been a challenge.
You inspired my husband to find the first of these on Project Gutenberg. I've just loaded it into our Kindle library for him - and me, if I find the time to read it!
When I was a juvenile, reading juveniles, they often had protagonists who were adults. Young ones, but adults.
Nowadays, when kids that age read YA, the protagonists are juveniles. (Unless they are in the military, which actually almost works the same, since they should be subordinates at that age.)
Albert Payson Terhune? I know he was a writer, as I spent some time in university with one of his relatives, but I couldn't, off the top of my head, recall any of his books. I did just check to see if he wrote Old Yeller (He didn't, Fred Gipson did.), as that's a dog story comes to mind, having watched the movie well over fifty times.
Not through choice, I worked as a movie theater usher in the fifties, when I was in high school and, alas, I stood in the back of the theater, flashlight in hand, watching it 3 or 4 times a night for over two weeks.
I'm quite catholic in my reading, genre, age group aimed at, publication date, etc., no matter if it catches my interest. I just finished, for example Stephenie Meyer's Midnight Sun (Living up here atop the world, in the land of the midnight sun, the title, of course caught my eye. Oh well.), turned out to be a young adult (I figured that out as the heroine was 17 and the hero a 17 year old looking "Vegan" vampire.) novel that concludes with her living happily every after and him unliving happily ever after.
Some reads, of course, stand out. In my opinion three of the best from the last century are Eco's The Island of the Day Before, Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 and Robert Fulghurm's Third Wish.
Oh, and there are at least 30 good reads by Cedar Sanderson out there!
I first read Watership Down when I was young and I've lost count of how many times I've read it since then. I'm actually reading it again now! I also still like the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew stories and the Three Investigators books. Last year, thanks to the movie "The House with a Clock in Its Walls", I discovered the Lewis Barnavelt books by John Bellairs (with the delightful Edward Gorey illustrations, please!). The Hobbit, of course, is an old friend.
I love Edward Gorey's illustrations and hadn't encountered the John Bellairs books. Thank you!
Personally, I loved airplane books as a kid, so when I could find a copy of the "Yankee Flier" series by Rutherford George Montgomery, writing as Al Avery. The main character, Stan Wilson, fights in multiple theaters of WW2, aided by his British and Irish wingmen. My favorite in the series is "A Yankee Flier in North Africa" from 1943. All the books are out of print, so finding them has been a challenge.
You inspired my husband to find the first of these on Project Gutenberg. I've just loaded it into our Kindle library for him - and me, if I find the time to read it!
When I was a juvenile, reading juveniles, they often had protagonists who were adults. Young ones, but adults.
Nowadays, when kids that age read YA, the protagonists are juveniles. (Unless they are in the military, which actually almost works the same, since they should be subordinates at that age.)
Albert Payson Terhune? I know he was a writer, as I spent some time in university with one of his relatives, but I couldn't, off the top of my head, recall any of his books. I did just check to see if he wrote Old Yeller (He didn't, Fred Gipson did.), as that's a dog story comes to mind, having watched the movie well over fifty times.
Not through choice, I worked as a movie theater usher in the fifties, when I was in high school and, alas, I stood in the back of the theater, flashlight in hand, watching it 3 or 4 times a night for over two weeks.
I'm quite catholic in my reading, genre, age group aimed at, publication date, etc., no matter if it catches my interest. I just finished, for example Stephenie Meyer's Midnight Sun (Living up here atop the world, in the land of the midnight sun, the title, of course caught my eye. Oh well.), turned out to be a young adult (I figured that out as the heroine was 17 and the hero a 17 year old looking "Vegan" vampire.) novel that concludes with her living happily every after and him unliving happily ever after.
Some reads, of course, stand out. In my opinion three of the best from the last century are Eco's The Island of the Day Before, Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 and Robert Fulghurm's Third Wish.
Oh, and there are at least 30 good reads by Cedar Sanderson out there!