Handing Down Books

[qos]

Wolfling came to me this evening looking for a book to read. I took her into my library and introduced her to some of my favorites.

She's about to start The Summer Tree, by Guy Gavriel Kay, the first book of The Fionavar Tapestry.

I am gleeful.

My Wolfling is about to start reading one of my favorite series by one of my all-time, buy-his-books-in-hardback, favorite authors.

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Yay Stories!

[red-the-squeaky.livejournal.com]

Russell is re-reading Song for Arbone to me during recovery.

Re: Yay Stories!

[qos.livejournal.com]

So glad to see you, Red!

What a lovely thing for him to do.

[qos.livejournal.com]

I had this one for quite a while before I started reading it. My sister had given me a used paperback copy as a gift for being her maid of honor at her wedding -- which I had considered pretty tacky. I often don't like books about people crossing into fantasy worlds. But this one, once I got through the first pages, really grabbed me -- and the entire series is lovely.

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[amber-gold.livejournal.com]

I love your icon! Did you make it?

I actually have a lot of my books in stacks of plastic storage boxes. I've curtailed drastically my buying of more books until I get more space & bookcases. I only have 5 full-size bookcases (not counting the 2 in my daughter's room), and two of them are double-stacked, which I'm not fond of because you can't see the ones in the back clearly.

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[amber-gold.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I mean the "If you have enough space..." icon, but for some reason I can't reply to that post. It keeps sticking it onto the Book Love one (which is cute, too). User error/lack of understanding, I'm sure.

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[qos.livejournal.com]

No problem. :-)

Because it's not offset under the Book Love post, it means that it's also in response to brigidsblest's comment.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

I handed on The Mists of Avalon to Alice, and she liked it so much she basically appropriated it--my hardback copy, bought for me by my parents when it was first published. That was in her early teens, and she recently bought me a new copy, also hardbound, to replace it. :)

And I think I need some Arthurian icons....

[qos.livejournal.com]

Wolfling has been shown exactly where to return the book when she's finished with it. ;-)

If you find a good site or group for Arthurian icons, do let me know!

[don-negro.livejournal.com]

Okay, but don't get upset with her when she throws your hardback The Wandering Fire or The Darkest Road against her bedroom wall in howling anguish.

If that might be a problem, let me know and I'll send up paperback editions.

You are the lucky ones

[amber-gold.livejournal.com]

That is so wonderful. I wish my daughter would do that. She has her own stuff that she wants to read and will barely look at anything I like. Even though a lot of her old favorites are books/authors that I recommended when she was younger. For the past few years she has mostly been reading Manga, fan-fiction, and her old fantasy mainstays (not much in the way of new fantasy). A couple of years ago, I made a several-page list of books that I thought she would probably like - not books that I thought she should read, or books that I liked (although I did), but books that fit her reading pattern. Up to this point, she has only read 3 of them (a trilogy). And she did like them, enough to want her own copies.

I need to go back and reread the Fionavar books. It's probably been 8-10 years.

Re: You are the lucky ones

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Unfortunately, Wolfling doesn't like Fionavar!

She's put it back in the library with a shrug.

*sigh

She reads a lot of fan fiction too. ;-)