On having finished Swallows and Amazons...

[melannen]

If there's any better place to have been reading that than out in hurricane weather, it was sitting in a tiny tea-shop in the pouring rain while eating a scone so hot that it nearly scorched my fingers.

Reading these old YA novels only on my commute seems to be just the thing. I think I shall continue. I'm checking out The Eagle of the Ninth today to tide me over. Now it's time to see if I can find a library that will loan me Swallowdale- neither the school library nor the local one has it. Meanwhile, my flist needs to help me out!

[Poll #814413]

(I'm nearly always Titty, but sometimes John and sometimes Peggy, and when I'm feeling particularly Nativish, sometimes Susan or Roger. But I'm nearly never Nancy, for I'm sadly quite ruthful usually. My sister's maybe John but sometimes Nancy and sometimes Peggy or Titty - but you ought to make her read them and ask her. Actually, frey_at_last, I *really* think that you four and us two need to rent two sailboats on a lake and go play Swallows and Amazons some summer.)

Comments

[frey-at-last.livejournal.com]

Read Peter Duck! It's one of two "make-believe" books in the series, where they're actually just pretending to have gone on the adventure it describes. Or at least that's what most people think - some object. Its popularity also varies, because of that, so you might not like it as much as S&A and Swallowdale and the rest of the normal series. But then again you might like it more!

:D I am totally in favor of that idea!

[frey-at-last.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the point of me telling you all about it was to convince you that it's one of the books that doesn't need to be read in order. I forgot in all the excitement.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Actually, the internets just told me that Peter Duck technically comes first anyway! So it seems like I wouldn't miss anything doing it that way.

[frey-at-last.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're so right! Peter Duck *does* come in between the two, although Swallowdale was written and published first. I am such a publishing-order kind of girl (re: NARNIA), but with S&A I make exceptions.

Wow, you're really making me wish I'd brought my entire set from home. But I could never fit it!