rereading fever

[coraa]

So it's (almost) December, which means there's more than usual stress, which, for me, means rereads. Last December it was a complete Discworld rereaed.

This December, apparently it's middle-grade books from my childhood. Who knew?

It started with Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret. (Harriet is more famous but actually, upon a reread, I think The Long Secret is the better book.) Then I bought all the Anastasia Krupnik books that were available on the Kindle, and chafed that that's less than half. (I may break down and buy physical copies.)

Now it's the discovery that the Ramona books are available on the Kindle. I'm also thinking of rustling up my extremely battered copies of Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and The Farthest-Away Mountain.

I'm a little embarrassed by this but, to be honest, not much. I think I have become, blissfully, old enough to do kid stuff.

(Someone is going to read this, scratch their head, and ask, "But don't you review YA fantasy all the time?" And oh, yes, I do; most of my favorite books of the past three years have been YA fantasy. But modern YA fantasy is an utterly different beast than the middle-grade books of my own childhood; it's not the same thing at all.)

Comments

[oracne]

You should post about the rereads, so we may all wallow in nostalgia.

[gwyneira]

I second oracne's comment! :)

Also, have you read Sport? I like it nearly as much as Harriet and The Long Secret and am surprised to see that it's out of print.

[janni.livejournal.com]

I love Jeremy Thatcher! And Jennifer Murdley, too.

Speaking of Bruce Coville's books, were you a Unicorn Chronicles fan? Because the third book in that series came out last year, and the final book is due out in 2010, and these things make me very happy. :-)

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! I love rereading childhood books. You've seen these posts, right? http://jezebel.com/tag/fine-lines/

[geekjul.livejournal.com]

Oh, I had so much love for Ramona Quimby when I was a girl. I related to her awkwardness and need to belong so very much. You're making me want to re-read them now :)

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

I totally loved Anastasia Krupnik when I was a kid. My favorite was how her little brother taught himself to talk, then his first words were when he stood up and said, "Look at me, I'm up!"

My favorite fantasy books from when I was a preteen though have to be The Dark is Rising Sequence, anything by Patricia Wrede, and those books by Robin McKinley.

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

I wish more of my childhood lit were available on kindle, because I feel totally sketchy borrowing it from the library.

[clairebaxter.livejournal.com]

I've got all sorts of children's novels and a few old YA books, if you want to borrow some.