Yay for YA Lit!

[amanuensis1]

Anybody here read Tamora Pierce?

The Circle of Magic books? The latest one, The Will of the Empress?


She's got one of the Circle in a same-sex romance.

:squeeble!:

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[naatz.livejournal.com]

I'd so totally read that post, if only to convince me whether it's worth watching or not. {Is it?}

|Meduza|

[dreamred.livejournal.com]

I hesitate to say it but...really? Really really? Wow. It's been a long time since I read those, and stopped somewhere before the end of 'Circle Opens', however, this is almost enough of a development to tempt me to read them again.

*checks Amazon*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of books in the series--I wouldn't tell you "OMG YOU MUST READ THEM ALL TO GET TO THIS ONE!!1!1!", but if you like the series this is a nice side effect. ^_^

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

I <3 Tammy Pierce. <3<3<3. She won the Skylark award last year, which is the award given for those who really, REALLY interact and support their fandom. Tammy is just amazing, and I am so glad I've gotten to talk with her.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Word. I'm on staff for Boskone, and it's been mentioned during debriefing that Tammy's Sunday events are 1)her idea and 2)a huge draw.

This year, I hung out in the hallway with her before her panel. So much fun to just TALK to that lady.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful! And from what I understand, she's someone who's okay with fanfic--she just says, "I can't read it myself"?

[earthquakedream.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that series, but I'm reading another series of hers: Trickster's Choice.

I'll have to check that out!!!

[mashlie.livejournal.com]

I remember re-reading Shatterglass an insane number of times...

(Of course, the worst thing is that I get them out of the library, and they're all in the childrens section for some reason...among things like Goosebumps and The Saddle Club. It's very hard to inconspicuously pop in and find them in all the mess...)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I liked the Trickster books a lot! The Circle of Magic series has a LOT of books in it--4 in the first series, 4 in the second, and now this one, but I enjoyed them all.

[aidenfire]

I massively fangirl Tamora Pierce. The first big online community I was active in was her forum, Sheroes. :)

And yes, I majorly squeed at that. :DDD

[lady_songsmith]

New Circle of Magic book(s)?? How did I miss this?!

I'm am a huge Pierce fan dating back to 4th grade, when I stumbled across Lioness Rampant in the school library. (I have this weird thing about finding series by the final book... did it with Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising and Rosemary Sutcliff's Arthur/Eagles sets, too.) I adore the Alanna books, actually, and kinda wish we saw more of Alanna in the Wild Magic and Protector of the Small books -- though I loved that we got so much Raoul in the latter! I haven't read the Tricksters yet, though. Life slammed me upside the head just as they came out.

*hurries off to find the new books*

[satanbaker.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think it's the general, scared-of-copyright issues with she might read some fanficcer's idea and end up using it in something she publishes and getting a mess about it. But she's one of those, I-got-my-start-writing-fanfic people, and is thus okay about other people writing it. I think. I could be wrong.

*lurking this post, for it's so rare she finds someone mention TP* XD;

[seii-ryu.livejournal.com]

*hearts her*

I didn't really believe the hints at first because a) she's a mainstream YA lit author, and b) slash! But then Daja went all starry-eyed and I had very little jaw left.

I have the Tricksters series, and am waiting for the paperback for Empress to come out. (But Empress was out a long time ago, no?)

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

I saw her at The Witching Hour; she's a really interesting and gifted public speaker. Every so often I have a Pierce-fit and end up re-reading all of them one after the other.

The Alanna series is still my favorite, but it's the one that I read as an 11-yr-old outsider-type and it stuck with me. I love the Circle Books, and thought Empress was fabulous (esp. Daja's romance plot line.)

I wasn't too keen on the Trickster books the first time I read them: Aly's the one who really strikes me as Sue-ish, with her Magic Sight and incessant good luck and interfering God. But they were much better second time through. I'm listening to the audio version with Trini Alvarado right now and it's great. =)

[lyricalnights.livejournal.com]

Hardback Empress came out in September, so the paperback should be underway and available soon.

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

*points out briefly that Alanna's George is someone I plan on mentioning at my TWH roundtable :D* </end pimpage>

I'll read the rest of the comments in a minute, but I saw him mentioned and had to go on...

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have a question for you: why do you like the later books better than Alanna? It's been a while since I've read the others, true, but I felt like most of the sequels other than the Immortals were sort of...copies. (Granted, Lloyd Alexander does the same thing down to the characters, but...well. :D) Did I not read far enough ahead? Are there other things that make you like the Alanna books less than the others?

[rectpropagation.livejournal.com]

No, but I've read a couple of the Bedlam's Bard books and there's a romantic threesome in that.

...

I really need one of those t-shirts that says, "I bring nothing to the table."

[talkjive.livejournal.com]

I love The Dark Is Rising like I love cake, kittenwar.com, and sunshine. <3 <3 <3

[kkpixie.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0886776287/sr=8-22/qid=1143664623/ref=sr_1_22/002-2953076-6960029?%5Fencoding=UTF8)?

[seii-ryu.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

(psst, pardon)

[lrodell.livejournal.com]

(put them on hold--then they'll be behind the desk for you, no creeping past kids to get to things^^) Sounds like this will be someone to hunt down and put on my hold list, as soon as I *cough* work it down past 30?

[twistedrecesses.livejournal.com]

I was just at Despoiling Harry and read Better to Curse the Darkness which I'd somehow managed to miss before -

Wow. Very intense.
Nice work.

Re: (psst, pardon)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know allllllll about those impossibly long hold lists. ^_^

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

How sweet, thank you! That one was a bit convoluted in plotting but I enjoyed putting it together. ^_^