Throwback Thursday: Well-Loved Books

[mizkit]

A hash tag popped up on Twitter yesterday, #WellLovedBooks, and I immediately went and took pictures of several of mine. I thought they’d make a kind of nice different Throwback Thursday post idea, too, so I present to you a handful of my well-loved books. :)

My 8th birthday prsent: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, which I read to pieces. <3

Comments

[haikujaguar]

I have that Dragonsong edition (and the Dragonsinger one, but unfortunately not the Dragondrums one). I kept them all these years because I LOVED the art. Those are the fire lizards I picture in my head. :)

[mizkit]

I think my copy of DRAGONSINGER must have fallen completely apart, and I just flat-out don't know what happened to DRAGONDRUMS. I should try to find matching copies, although since I can't get them signed, it's less of a thing.

[deborahblakehps]

I had all of those. Don't know where they went to, alas.

[galdrin]

My equivalent of your Anne of Green Gables is The Good Medicine Book by Adolph Hungry Wolf. Others I have replaced, but that's one I can't, but I can't stop reading it.

My complete Conan, complete Barsoom, and complete Mithgar series look as well loved as most of yours.

[herefox]

I have most of the same books on my shelves, though my Robin McKinley of reread tends to be Beauty...I tend to snap up copies I see in used book stores of that one if they're in okay condition since I've read two to pieces. Same with "Forgotten Beasts of Eld" by Patricia McKillip.

I was hoping the secret country books would get rereleased when Pamela Dean published the Ruth book she was talking about doing but it sounds like that may have been cancelled (I admit to a bit of lalalalalala I don't want to know when it started sounding like it might not happen so I'm not sure)

Oddly, I only read the first couple of Unicorn books too. I think you're right, it's because they took way too long to come out and I'd moved on to other things. I should see if I can find used copies.

[pameladean]

My ears are burning. :-) The publisher did cancel the book, but I'm going to self-publish it within the next year. It needs some tweaking and expanding, and connected stories ("Owlswater" and The Dubious Hills) need to be re-released as well

[herefox]

Yay! Although I feel kind of bad because I actually had avoided asking you on your journal about it because I didn't want to be a pest about it ;-) I've been very excited to read it since the Secret Country books are some of my favorite comfort reads. Thankfully I realized when I was a late-ish teenager that I loved the books so mine are still in sort of good condition but I'll definitely keep an eye out for the other editions.

[pameladean]

You are really welcome to ask questions like that of me at any time. Such questions are very seldom pestiferous. It's nice, in a career that has ups and downs and sideways weird bits, to know that people are still interested.

P.

[martianmooncrab]

with the exception of the Green Gables I have all those books and have read them.

[pameladean]

So many of these are my well-loved books too that I feel I must try to get hold of the ones I haven't read yet.

P.

[mizkit]

I love it when that happens. Although I haven't read the Lee or Smith books in so long that I don't know if they stand up. They did when I was in my 20s, which was, I think, the last time I read them, but that was a while ago now. :)