Oh, yes, A Solitary Blue is amazing. I'm a huge fan of folk music, and I love how crucial music in general is to that series. But I did go through and read the first theree Tillerman books with an eye to seeing how many of the folk sogs I knew. Quite a few, as it turns out.
ShannonWho will read The Runner sometime very soon, even if the main character is going to die at the end, because it sounds amazing.
At 10:06 PM 3/1/2010, Monica Willyard wrote:
Jamie and Judy, I love the Tillerman series too. A Solitary Blue is a book I remember and think about often. There is a seen toward the end that comes to mind when I see myself or anyone else trading family for things that won't last . The Runner is a powerful book. However, the narrator NLS got for The Runner is beyond belief. I'm sure he's a very nice man, but he reads in a slow, flat way, like a robot. I'll be thrilled to re-read the book from Bookshare now so I can mentally paint my own pictures of the characters. Even with a poor reader, that book's ending is still so clear for me, like being etched in glass. Without that book, Homecoming, (the first book), doesn't fully make sense. You won't know why Abigail is as they find her in the first book until you read The Runner. I really like how the author lets us get to know people slowly, letting them unfold to us the way people do in the real world. She doesn't tell us about the people. She lets the people and their experiences show us who they are over time. Monica Willyard Check out my books and accessible book lists on Goodreads at http://www.goodreads.com/profile/plumlipstick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:35 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: two questions for the gang > Hi Jamie, the Cynthia Voigt books are called the "Tillerman" series, and > Carrie has added the numbers in. smile. > > Aren't they great books? I'd recommend them to anyone. They're for teens, > and initially about a young teen who takes her younger brothers and sister > on a cross-country trip to find a living relative who will take them in > after their mentally ill mother dies. Then the series branches out and > follows now only them but also friends the main character in the first > book, Dicey, met or is related to. The characters and situations are very > 3-dimensional, and complex, and the books don't "fix" everyone's lives in > a pretty box with a bow, either, in some instances. The book "The > Runner," which is entirely a flashback of one generation in the series, > for example, ends with a main character dying in Vietnam. While written > recently, in the 1980s, they aren't about sex and drugs and aren't full of > foul language, like so many modern teen books are. On the other hand they > aren't in the Christian genre at all, either. "Dicey's Song" won the > Newbery medal, and "A Solitary Blue" was a Newbery Honor book. > > I hope you get a chance to read the entire series, Jamie. smile. I think > the third book, "A Solitary Blue," is my favorite. > > Here's the order: > > Tillerman 1: Homecoming > Tillerman 2: Dicey's Song > Tillerman 3: A Solitary Blue > Tillerman 4: Runner, The > Tillerman 5: Come a Stranger > Tillerman 6: Sons from Afar > Tillerman 7: Seventeen Against the Dealer > > Judy s. > > Jamie Prater wrote: >> Hi, the books by Cynthia Voigt about a girl named Dicey and her brothers >> and sister that starts out with homecoming doesn't have series numbers or >> anything on them. I read homecoming and Dicey's song and thought that >> was all there was about that family. It wasn't until searching around on >> the bookshare site and/or looking at the new books that I learned there >> were four others. I don't want to read them out of order, but because of >> how they're written, I may inevitably do that. I know there's sons from >> afar, the runner, seventeen against the dealer, and come a stranger but >> I'm not sure in what chronological order they are. This info would be >> helpful on bookshare if it can be found. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list > of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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