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[sartorias]

Andre Norton and Me.

Today is the anniversary of Andre's birthday, so there are homage posts.

Comments

[la_marquise_de_]

That's a lovely article: thank you.

[sartorias]

Thank you for reading it!

[anderyn]

What a lovely tribute.

I started reading Andre in 5th grade, I think it was... one of my soon-to-be friends was reading "Daybreak 2250 AD" in the homeroom, and I was bold enough to ask her about this cool book. And I was off.

[sartorias]

Thanks! That's a great one to start with.

[ann1962]

Thank you for sharing this!

[sartorias]

Thank you for reading it!

[rachelmanija]

I adored Andre Norton when I was a kid, reading in the ashram library. My favorites were The Stars Are Ours!, and Sorceress of the Witch World and Year of the Unicorn - the latter two with female protagonists.

I really resonated with her misfit heroes - the sorceress who lost her power, the scientist's child in a time when scientists were being persecuted, the adoptee from another country who's willing to throw herself into a completely unknown future in order to escape the drab life that's her only other choice. There was something very warm and accepting and hopeful in the subtext of all her books.

[sartorias]

I so agree about the subtext.

[mneme]

Lovely! I think I started reading Ms Norton with the Witch World sequence (starting in the middle somewhere; I distinctly remember reading the Crystal Griffin books while left alone in a bookstore in Atlantic City at 12 or 14).

[sartorias]

My faves were Witch World!