Back again... I've been browsing barnes & noble (got a gc for my birthday that I haven't used yet...
)
Found
The Westing Game in a recent paperback reprint, and that got me free-associating some more... I also found
Mara, Daughter of the Nile -- a book that I absolutely *adored* in junior high school. I think I wore out the library copy all by myself
It's also been recently reprinted, which means I can't have been the only one who liked it ... which is making me worry that I'm not nearly as unusual as I've always liked to think
And I don't know how on earth I managed to not mention
Tryst! Tryst isn't in print anymore, but B&N listed some second-hand copies for sale -- ranging from $10-15 (a bargain! Four years ago the lowest price I could find was $30) all the way up to a paperback copy that's priced at $211.
And also by Elswyth Thane there's a whole series of Williamsburg novels, following a few families from the Revolutionary War up to World War II.
Oh, and I've read most everything I can find by M. M. Kaye. I started with the big fat historical novels (
Trade Wind was the best, IMO) but then moved on to her murder mysteries, which are all good, too.
PJ
who is loving this nostalgia trip!
